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Albert Burneko

Politics

Pete Hegseth Adds New Weapon To American Warfighter Loadout: Influenza

charismatic megafauna (they/them)

Sabrina Imbler

Science

RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History’s Biggest Killers

a headshot of Laura Mata López, a psychiatric nurse and doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University

Interviews

An Interview With A Psychiatric Nurse Whose Research Funding Was Cut By The Trump Administration

a photo of Patrick Kelly, a Doctoral Candidate at Brown University School of Public Health, whose NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse funded doctoral research was terminated

An Interview With A Public Health Researcher Whose Funding Was Terminated By The Trump Administration

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

Nicholas Russell

: A COVID face mask dangles from the rear-view mirror of a car

Life Lessons

Why I Keep Masking

Libby Watson is a writer, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/libtron">streamer</a> and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/whatsallthisthen">podcaster</a>.

Libby Watson

A single-story ranch house surrounded by a chain link fence. It is pleasant and well-groomed. There is a mailbox in the front of the photo.

The Home-Sized Hole In The Safety Net

Kalyn Kahler

Cleveland Hughes wears Seahawks gear as he gets the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from Andrea Barnett during opening day of the Community Vaccination Site, a collaboration between the City of Seattle, First &amp; Goal Inc., and Swedish Health Services at the Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle, Washington on March 13, 2021. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)