A nationwide standard of voting rights now seems like a pipe dream.

Politics

Joe Manchin

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The Atlantic

How Manchin & Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision

Kelly Korreck is still thinking about the time her spacecraft flew into the sun, how one moment, the probe was rushing through a stormy current of fast-moving particles, and the next, it was plunging somewhere quieter, where the plasma rolled like ocean waves. No machine had ever crossed that mysterious boundary before. But Korreck and her team had dispatched a mission for that exact purpose, and their plan worked.

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Science

We Booped the Sun

Politicians rarely set out to piss off their constituents, much less admit to doing so. So when French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his desire to antagonize France’s unvaccinated citizens into receiving COVID vaccinations, observers and many ofhisrivals were appalled, and some were a bit confused. Macron is up for reelection in April, and a quarter of his country remains unimmunized.

International

The Rise of Anti-anti-vax Politics

Security experts maximize defenses. But places of worship need to remain welcoming.

A Synagogue Shouldn’t Be a Fortress

Is it okay to walk into a bar if you might sicken someone who might need hospital care?

Hospitals

The COVID-Risk Social Contract Is Under Negotiation

Yellowjackets, the Showtime series about a high-school girls’ soccer team stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash, can be extremely stressful to watch. The drama, which ended its first season tonight and has been renewed for a second, is relentlessly violent, and the writers seem to delight in attacking or killing off the most lovable characters.

Soccer

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Culture

The Bloody, Brutal Business of Being a Teenage Girl

Saturday Night Live’s first episode of 2022 attempted to make up for the strange, empty show that ended 2021 amid the rise of the coronavirus’s Omicron variant. The cast was back, the masked audience was back, and the show, as they say, went on. But it couldn’t escape the world outside of 30 Rock’s doors.

Coronavirus

‘The Timeline You’re All Living in Is About to Collapse’

In Disney’s latest blockbuster, Encanto, a magical family called the Madrigals have escaped the violence and chaos of their homeland by crossing a river into an enchanted paradise that endows each with wondrous gifts that they use to protect and enhance their community.

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