On this day 75 years ago the atomic age was born, with the first nuclear detonation near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Only 20 days earlier, on June…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Dr. Murat Dilmener sometimes bent hospital rules in Istanbul to ensure patients without health insurance got the treatment they needed. He frequently saw poor Turks for…
The nation’s top public-health expert tells The Atlantic that he isn’t going anywhere, despite the Trump administration’s newest attempts to undercut him. Anthony Fauci isn’t about to quit, despite the…
Separating families during the pandemic is "nothing less than willful endangerment,” an attorney for the medical experts said A group of medical experts hired by the Department of Homeland Security…
Human fingerprint on record temperatures ‘has rarely, if ever, been clearer’, says report The record-breaking heatwave in the Siberian Arctic was made at least 600 times more likely by human-caused…
“Black At” Instagram accounts, like Black at Harvard Law, provide space for students to anonymously share racist experiences, and mobilize for systemic change. On the Black at Harvard Law Instagram…
When thousands of people marched to Lake Merritt last month to protest police brutality, most of the attention was focused on Klay Thompson and Steph Curry in the crowd.But the…
In a New York Times “Live at Home” event, the recording artists Meshell Ndegeocello, Brandi Carlile and Hayley Kiyoko explored the role of activism in their work. Times Insider explains who…
The Trump administration unexpectedly backed off a draconian new rule that would have affected international students — but other policy damage may not be easily undone. In a federal hearing…
ARIS — Growing up in France, Maboula Soumahoro by no means considered herself as Black. At house, her immigrant dad and mom confused the tradition of the Dioula, a Muslim…