David Wallace-Wells

New York

Writer at The New York Times Opinion

Columnist at The New York Times Magazine

Writer @nytopinion and columnist @NYTmag. Newsletter on climate and the messy future (https://t.co/CPCd2nw3Kx). Author of The Uninhabitable Earth.

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Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045

6 days ago | nytimes.com | David Wallace-Wells

In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision - amid the Trump administration's assault on foreign aid - to accelerate the end of his giving. Credit... Katy Grannan for The New York Times Today the Gates Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary by announcing its plans to close up shop.
What to Know About Bill Gates's Plans to Shut Down the Gates Foundation

6 days ago | nytimes.com | David Wallace-Wells

The billionaire philanthropist says he will accelerate his giving - but then dissolve his organization in 20 years, decades earlier than he originally planned. On Thursday, Bill Gates announced a new, faster timeline to give away his fortune - and close the doors of the Gates Foundation, one of the world's leading global-health philanthropies.
Jean-Luc MÃ©lenchon Talks About the Future of the Left

1 week ago | nytimes.com | David Wallace-Wells

Last summer, nervous liberals breathed a sigh of relief when a snap election in France ended in surprise defeat for the far right and its fearsome leader, Marine Le Pen. But the hero of that election was in many ways not Emmanuel Macron, who called the election nominally to sideline Le Pen and then marshaled embarrassingly little public support for his own party.
How Is AI Art Different From ‘Real’ Human Art?

1 week ago | vulture.com | Jerry Saltz |David Wallace-Wells

You may think of AI art as a form of machine-generated slop. But lately it’s been getting kind of weird. On April 21, New York’s senior art critic, Jerry Saltz, and the New York Times writer David Wallace-Wells held a conversation at David Zwirner gallery in New York on the subject. Among the questions they tackled: What exactly does AI art look like, and how is it that we can recognize it? Why has it proved so useful for political purposes, particularly as Trump-kitsch propaganda?
'A Veneer of Official Medical Knowledge': Three Opinion Writers on Kennedy's Tenure

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ross Douthat |Jessica Grose |David Wallace-Wells

Ross douthat, Jessica Grose and David Wallace-wellsAlexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted a written conversation with the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat and the Opinion writers Jessica Grose and David Wallace-Wells about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first two months as secretary of health and human services. Alexandra Sifferlin: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to tackle chronic disease and take on the food and pharmaceutical industries.
Opinion | The Epstein and Kennedy Files and the Age of Conspiracy Theory

1 month ago | nytimes.com | David Wallace-Wells

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Like the so-called Epstein files, which were first handed to a small band of briefly jubilant right-wingers several weeks ago, the John F. Kennedy files released last week by the National Archives turned out to be, by the standards of conspiracy hype, a total dud.
Opinion | Trump’s Public Health Appointees Don’t Believe in a Public

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | David Wallace-Wells

If that debate sounds familiar, it should, since arguments about natural versus vaccine immunity helped give shape to debate about whether the public-health establishment was overly cautious about Covid, too. As we exit what Siddhartha Mukherjee recently called America’s “privatized pandemic,” the country is feeling its way toward a new anti-establishment equilibrium — and anointing a new class of health leaders distinguished by their vocal skepticism and distrust.
How Microplastic Pollution is Destroying Global Food Security

2 months ago | innerself.com | Beth McDaniel |Rachel Carson |David Wallace-Wells |Peter Wohlleben

How do microplastics impact global photosynthesis rates? What are the food production losses due to plastic pollution? How does plastic waste affect crops and seafood supply? Can reducing microplastic levels reverse food security threats? What global policies can help mitigate plastic pollution? By Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.comWhen we think about food security, we often focus on climate change, soil degradation, and water shortages.
Where Trump Is Giving Liberals a Hand

2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | David Wallace-Wells

Share The most remarkably popular major political figure in the world right now is Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, who swept into the presidency in a landslide victory last summer — and who has, in defiance of the laws of contemporary political gravity, been building on her popularity ever since.
For Mexico's Sheinbaum and Canada's Carney, Trump's a Good Enemy

2 months ago | nytimes.com | David Wallace-Wells

Sheinbaum's approval is more than four times as high. For every Mexican who opposes her, there are now more than five who support her. And she is the face of an incumbent party, too. There are many possible lessons here for the global left, though Sheinbaum's success is also idiosyncratic. She's a climate scientist who embraces fossil fuels and a social democrat who uses the left-populist rhetoric of her predecessor.