On the latest episode of Social Distance, staff writer James Hamblin and executive producer Katherine Wells answer questions from listeners.Listen to the episode here:Subscribe to Social Distance on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or another podcast platform to receive new episodes as soon as they’re published.What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.James Hamblin: This question comes from Tyler Richter in Springfield, Missouri.
The agency now believes that the suggested dosing regimens “are unlikely to produce an antiviral effect,” FDA chief scientist Denise Hinton said in a letter.
Parenting advice on self-esteem lies, food guilt, and precocious readers.
While Title VII bars discrimination on the basis of “race, color, national origin, sex, and religion,” the original bill didn’t define “sex” as a term.
The justices left in place a lower court ruling that upheld the bulk of three California laws that protect undocumented immigrants from deportation.
In a rare development, a New York police officer has been charged with assault, criminal mischief, harassment and menacing, after a viral video showed him violently shoving a peaceful protester to the ground as he shouted an expletive and a misogynistic slur. We speak with Dounya Zayer about the attack she faced during a protest against police brutality in Brooklyn on May 29 and how she suffered a seizure and was hospitalized with a concussion.
As protests against racism and police violence continue across the United States, we speak with Derrick Sanderlin, a San Jose community organizer who has spent years training police on avoiding implicit bias toward people of color, but an officer from the same police department shot him in the groin with a rubber bullet during a May 29 protest against racism and police violence, rupturing Sanderlin’s testicle and possibly affecting his ability to have children.
Protests have erupted in Atlanta, where the police killing of unarmed African American man Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot has outraged residents. The autopsy revealed that Brooks was shot in the back as he was running away, and the death has been ruled a homicide by the county medical examiner. Brooks’s killing comes as protests against racism and police violence continue across the country.
Over the past decade, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz Party have transformed a democracy into something close to an autocracy. Shortly after his first reelection in 2014, Orbán gave a speech outlining his political project.
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Mary Trump was also reportedly the source behind a Pulitzer-winning story into Trump’s tax schemes, The Daily Beast said.
Drugmakers and health agencies have already begun rewriting the rules of vaccine research.
Officer Tou Thao does not respond or react to a group of people demanding that he help George Floyd, who was later pronounced dead.
Extremists have celebrated attacks like these for years. But there’s even more to the story.
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
With millions of people suddenly video chatting their doctors, there’s pressure on Washington to make telehealth a permanent option.
Advocates panned the new rules, which were released on the 4th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
The CDC also recommended attendees wear masks if an event includes chanting or singing.
The CDC has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
When the best thing for you is to walk away.
I don’t feel right about letting this slide.
A look at the use of acquitted and uncharged conduct in federal sentencing.
How a collision between libertarianism, pandemic, and protests brought down the leader of the fitness juggernaut CrossFit.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
“Neither party represents the future that we need in this country — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism,” Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. “We’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics.
