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The vaccine and the satellite: A tale of two Sputniks

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Donald Trump meets with Mark Zuckerberg.

The pandemic, protests, and election are putting social media content policies under a microscope

By Justin Sherman | Technology and Security

Pandemic failure or convenient scapegoat: How did WHO get here?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity

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Why the United States needs a new pandemic-fighting federal agency

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity

President Donald Trump at a press conference.

Hear, see, speak no COVID: Why the Trump administration is bungling the response to the pandemic

By Saskia Popescu, Gregory D. Koblentz | Biosecurity

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Curious coincidence: the birth of Donald Trump and the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Weapons

What the United States loses by quitting the Open Skies treaty, in one chart

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Risk

Donald Trump addresses Americans from the oval office.

Assessing Trump’s coronavirus approach: a Q&A with public health expert Saskia Popescu

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

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Discussion: Nuclear weapons policy and the US presidential election

By | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk

Donald Trump at a campaign rally.

Alex Azar is busy, and 4 other things I learned from watching Trump talk about the coronavirus outbreak

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Ambulances wait outside an emergency room.

If the coronavirus outbreak grows, can a strained US health care system keep up?

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity

Donald Trump and Qassem Soleimani.

The Soleimani killing and 5 things to know about drones in Iraq

By Dan Gettinger | Disruptive Technologies