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Save this story for later. On January 31st, generals in Myanmar seized power, after their political allies lost an election in a landslide to the National League for Democracy, the party of Aung San Suu Kyi. She was detained, along with other party leaders, and remains under house arrest. Since then, Suu Kyi’s supporters have poured into the streets to demand the restoration of democracy, and civil servants and workers across the country have walked off their jobs. “If we stop going to work, the economic sector will stop working,” a bank employee named Daw Thandar Kyaw told the...

Save this story for later. Last weekend, forty-three members of the United States Senate voted to acquit former President Donald J. Trump of inciting the insurrection at the Capitol, on January 6th, which claimed the life of a police officer and four protesters and could have resulted in the deaths of members of Congress. Fifty Democrats and seven Republicans voted to convict Trump, but they fell far short of the sixty-seven votes that would have made him, in addition to being the only President to be impeached twice, the first President to be convicted in a Senate trial. The Republicans who ...

Failures in renewable-energy generation accounted for only a small percentage of the state’s recent power outages.

Save this story for later. A few days after Joe Biden’s Inauguration, Donald Trump made his first post-Presidency endorsement of a Republican candidate, in a four-way race to chair the Arizona Republican Party. Trump offered his “complete and total” endorsement to Kelli Ward, a physician and twice-failed U.S. Senate candidate, who has vigorously promoted Trump’s Big Lie about election fraud. (On January 6th, as the attack on the U.S. Capitol unfolded, Ward tweeted, “Send the elector choice back to the legislatures,” as the President and his advisers had urged Vic...

What made the U.K. variant so much more successful than the original virus? One possibility is pure chance. It could have been amplified through some superspreader event, like the variant that took root at an employee conference at the Boston biotech firm Biogen, in February, 2020, which eventually accounted for more than three hundred thousand infections. Or perhaps it got seeded in a school or a church, and spread rapidly among a tightly knit population. But, as researchers went back and studied the growth of the U.K. variant’s mutations through serum samples, they realized that neither o...