Change
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News
J.D. Vance Is an Oil Booster and Doubter of Human-Caused Climate Change
He once said society had a climate problem but changed his position sharply while seeking Donald Trump’s endorsement in his Senate race.
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Newyork
The Stench of Climate Change Denial
This may sound a bit weird, but when I think about my adolescent years, I sometimes associate them with the faint smell of sewage. You see, when I was in high school, my family lived on the South Shore of Long Island, where few homes had sewer ...
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News
Senators Slam UnitedHealth’s C.E.O. Over Cyberattack
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.
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News
4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.
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Books
How Not to Think Like a Fascist
In his latest book, the prolific British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips promotes curiosity, improvisation and conflict as antidotes to the deadening effects of absolute certainty.
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US
The Biden-Trump Rerun: A Nation Craving Change Gets More of the Same
Americans love a candidate who promises something new. But when a sitting president runs against a former one, can either claim the mantle of change?
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News
Vaccines Didn’t Turn Back Mpox, Study Finds. People Did.
The News The 2022 outbreak of mpox, previously known as monkeypox, was curbed in large part by drastic changes in behavior among gay and bisexual men, and not by vaccination, according to a new analysis published on Thursday in the journal Cell ...
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Newyork
How Lags in Statistics Skew the Inflation Picture
If you’re a normal human being trying to read recent economic news, especially about inflation, you may be feeling confused right now. You may have seen reports that consumer prices are up 3.1 percent over the past year, which sounds bad; “core ...
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Newyork
What Google’s Multibillion Payment to Apple Says About Privacy and Power in Tech
A report in The Guardian in August that lawyers who had had business before the Supreme Court gave money to an aide to Justice Clarence Thomas for a Christmas party was surprising. Just as surprising was the way the publication learned about it: from ...
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World
In Europe, Meta Offers Ad-Free Versions of Facebook and Instagram for First Time
Starting in November, subscriptions will cost between 9.99 euros and 12.99 euros per month, the company said.