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Trump lost, but racism is alive and infused in U.S. history

The United States presidential election was a great spectacle. It was also a battle over the nation’s history and its …

Biden’s climate change plans can quickly raise the bar, but can they be transformative?

The day Joe Biden becomes president, he can start taking actions that can help slow climate change. The question is …

Buying a coronavirus vaccine for everyone on Earth, storing and shipping it, and giving it safely will all be hard and expensive

Infectious diseases do not respect borders. An estimated 3 billion people in low-income countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America …

Russia’s rigged elections look nothing like the US election – they have immediate, unquestioned results there

The 2020 election, in which Joe Biden is the projected winner, is not what a rigged election looks like. Rigged …

What a Biden presidency means for Europe

Hopes are high in the European Union that Joe Biden will rapidly get to work on a substantive global “to-do” …

Keeping coronavirus vaccines at subzero temperatures during distribution will be hard, but likely key to ending pandemic

Just like a fresh piece of fish, vaccines are highly perishable products and must be kept at very cold, specific …

Pfizer vaccine: what an ‘efficacy rate above 90%’ really means

There was – rightfully – a lot of excitement when Pfizer and BioNTech announced interim results from their COVID vaccine …

Choosing health insurance is so complicated, 23% of workers with only two choices picked the worse one

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Almost a quarter of employees faced …

‘Melly Shum Hates Her Job’ but Europeans love this work by Canadian artist Ken Lum

Artwork ‘Melly Shum Hates Her Job’ by Ken Lum hangs in the Witte de Withstraat district in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, …

Remembrance Day: How a Canadian painter broke boundaries on the First World War battlefields

“I cannot talk, I can only paint.” This is how Canadian battlefield painter Mary Riter Hamilton (1867-1954) summarized her urgent …

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