David Wallace-Wells

4 weeks 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.

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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.