Author: WORLDVOGUENEWS

In December 2018, I visited a large dyeing facility inside the Shaoxing Industrial Zone, south of the coastal city of Hangzhou, China. Twenty minutes out “How your favorite jeans might be fueling a human rights crisis”

By removing all troops from Afghanistan shortly before the 9/11 attacks’ 20th anniversary, President Joe Biden sent a none-too-subtle message: He wanted America, and the “The war on terror and the long death of liberal interventionism”

September 7 was Brazil’s Independence Day, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used the occasion to continue his assault on the country’s democratic institutions. Bolsonaro had “Brazil escaped a January 6-style insurrection — for now”

Covid-19 is upending our lives and forcing us to make complex decisions with little information and conflicting guidance from authorities. Summer, typically the season of “I’m an epidemiologist and a dad. Here’s why I think schools should reopen.”

Covid-19 testing in the US improved dramatically over the first half of 2020, but things now appear to be breaking down once more as coronavirus “Covid-19 testing in the US is abysmal. Again.”

In late March, when Covid-19 was first surging, Jake Suett, a doctor of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine with the National Health Service in Norfolk, “What happens if Covid-19 symptoms don’t go away? Doctors are trying to figure it out.”

Many schools across the US gambled on offering in-person classes in early August, even as their states were still battling uncontrolled spread of Covid-19. In ““This is exactly what we’ve been warning about”: Why some school reopenings have backfired”

Part of the Escape Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Phil Nichols doesn’t get a lot of unannounced “The man without a name”

In the past half-century, the global production of meat has undergone a seismic shift. While meat was once mostly raised on small farms, today almost “The next pandemic could come from factory farms”

Remember Sharpiegate? It turns out that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may still be reeling from that episode, when President Trump’s refusal to “Trump’s “Sharpiegate” grudge may have cost NOAA’s acting chief scientist his job”