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Over 30,000 persons in 140 countries have volunteered for human challenge trials of Covid-19 vaccines, according to the organization 1Day [...]
June 27, 2020
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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a number of states and cities require customers who enter a store to wear a mask. Yet there is resistance. Some [...]
June 16, 2020
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Twitter recently posted warning labels on some high-profile tweets, on the ground that they incite violence or spread harmful misinformation. [...]
May 31, 2020
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People are saying that we are “past the peak” with Covid-19. Given this, when is the right time to reopen the economy? To comment on this [...]
April 23, 2020
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The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing us to look again at the ancient dilemma of triage. Which patients should get priority when there is a shortage [...]
April 13, 2020
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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, sheltering at home when possible is a government mandate in some areas, and voluntary in others. If it is [...]
March 28, 2020
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Thousands of third-party contract workers have been poring over private conversations recorded by Alexa-enabled devices (for the purpose of [...]
April 19, 2019
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In September 1935, the Nazi Party asked Bernhard Lösener to draft a large portion of the infamous Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of [...]
December 5, 2018
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I pass the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh every day, on my way to and from work. Yesterday, a gun-wielding assailant entered the [...]
October 28, 2018
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Virtues (in the Aristotelian tradition) are qualities that humans alone bring to the world — and therefore explain, in some sense, why we [...]
January 1, 2018
