The Truth About American Food Safety
Have sprawling outbreaks become the norm?
Daniel Engber
Daniel Engber is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
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Guillermo Arias / AFP / Getty Anthony Fauci’s Group Chat Is Making People Lose Their Minds
Can the former NIAID director’s private text messages tell us anything we don’t already know?
Illustration by Stephanie Jones Source: Getty. Icarus in the Faculty Lounge
The Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s unlikely ascent has come to a tragic end.
Graeme Robertson / Guardian / eyevine / Redux What Anthony Fauci Didn’t Say
Senate Republicans had many questions. Fauci had one answer.
Olivier Douliery / Sipa USA / AP Smoky Skies Are Coming Back
We should really have a better way of knowing when it’s safe to go outside.
Stephen Zenner / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty The Thinking About Kids and Heat Has Flipped
Kids are supposed to be uniquely vulnerable to heat, but the data tell a different story.
H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun
Indictments, subpoenas, and debarments are hitting American scientists embroiled in the controversy over COVID’s origins.
Illustration by Anna Ruch / The Atlantic. Sources: Hector Retamal / AFP / Getty; Crit of Studio / Getty. Americans Have Entered the Age of the Needle
Americans’ enthusiasm for injection has never been higher.
Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic. Sources: Elena Kabenkina / Getty; Valerii Kosovskyi / Getty. The ‘Missing Scientist’ Story Is Unbelievably Dumb
It is, in a way, a remarkable achievement.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Publishing Mystery That No One Wants to Talk About
A minimally speaking autistic man just wrote a best-selling book. Or did he?
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