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It started out innocently enough. Earlier this month, Wilfrid Laurier University student Jory Harris and her roommates noticed Canada geese sitting on their front lawn. Despite one roommate’s ...
In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous ...
Is the U.S. in a second Gilded Age? Many in the news media seem to think so: You’ll find the claim in The New Yorker, NPR, Politico, and these pages. The White House, for its part, seems to ...
The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...
And no funding at all since 2019. “Trump’s golden age looks an awful lot like a new Gilded Age,” wrote Politico this month, reflecting on the second inauguration of the United States ...
But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition. That economy boomed. From 1870 to 1913, America’s GDP grew at nearly 5 percent ...
The president wants to re-create the “Golden Age” of America, but a recent article commented on his adoration of the Gilded Age of the 1890s. What would his ideal 1890s-style government look like?
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say. By Apoorva Mandavilli Robert F.
Food and agriculture experts from the United Nations issued a warning about a growing bird flu crisis amid widespread poultry infections and spillover into people and animals worldwide.
It’s his brand. Trump Tower in New York City is dripping with it. The gilded exterior of The Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is made with 24-karat gold-plated glass. Mar-a-Lago in Florida ...
It’s been five years since the first COVID-19 lockdowns began in Ontario. In the days leading up to March 17, 2020 — Ontario officially declared a state of emergency — businesses and ...
Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...