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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The Murder Rate Has Dropped to Its Lowest in Decades

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

In less hectic times, or ones in which good news earned as much attention as bad, it might be the biggest story of the moment. In city after city, violent crime has declined so much that it raises the possibility that the country's murder rate this year may drop to the lowest ever recorded. The national database stretches all the way back to 1960. If those were the halcyon days, then so are these.
Why Are So Many People Sure Covid Leaked from a Lab?

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

In April, the Trump White House paved over the informational public health website Covid.gov with what can only be described as a splashy propaganda page. "LAB LEAK," it shouted in large font at the top, movie-poster style, with Donald Trump's image positioned between the enormous capital letters as an A-list star investigator.
Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045

3 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | David Wallace-Wells

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

1 month 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

1 month 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 month 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 month 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

1 month 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

2 months 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

2 months 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.