Unvaxxed Quarterback Carson Wentz Wants Your Trust

If the Colts players and fans trusted him before, he has now relinquished the right to any such dispensation.

Dave Zirin

Letters From the September 6/13, 2021, Issue

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Which Is the More Prescient Dystopia? ‘Gattaca’ or ‘Parable of the Sower’

Is it the 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke or is it Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel?

David M. Perry and Niela Orr

We Can’t Trust Big Pharma to Make Enough Vaccines

Global vaccine scarcity is not inevitable.

Christopher Morten and Matthew Herder

Nuclear Impasse

The USA and Iran clash on sanctions.

Felipe Galindo

The Fight to Ban Chemical Warfare Helped Us Battle Covid-19

The research of chemist Julian Perry Robinson and biologist Matthew Meselson on arms control set public health standards for understanding the spread of contagion.

Peter Pringle

Got Vaccinated?

Passport to greater freedom… carefully.

Peter Kuper and Ron Hauge

The FDA Did the Right Thing in Pausing the J&J Vaccine

The Twitter epidemiologists convinced that regulators bungled the decision make for entertaining reading—but they’re wrong.

Joan Walsh

The Tiredness Virus

Covid-19 has driven us into a collective fatigue.

Byung-Chul Han

We’re at the Beginning of the End of Covid-19. Now What?

There may be light at the end of the tunnel, but foot by foot we keep extending that tunnel in front of us, giving the virus new hosts and new territory to spread into.

Gregg Gonsalves