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New York President Joe Biden spent only a weekend as the “Hamburglar” in the conservative media world. But while the false story lasted, it moved with a damaging speed and breadth, another example of a closed ecosystem of information affecting public opinion. An academic study published a year before Mr. Biden became president was used to speculate that he would place limits on how much red meat Americans can consume as part of his stated goal to sharply reduce greenhouse gas pollution. It was a potentially potent, visceral argument with punchy cable TV octane, namely that Mr. Biden was t...

Joe Biden vowed that, in his first 100 days as president, controlling the COVID-19 pandemic would be a top priority. As he passes that marker on Thursday, the United States seems on the verge of doing so, following the government’s efforts to tamp down infection rates while pushing mass vaccination. Congress passed Mr. Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill in March, sending direct payments to voters while extending unemployment aid and a moratorium on evictions. The president has also fulfilled promises to reverse a number of former President Donald Trump’s executive actio...

Jeff Kelman grew up in a progressive Massachusetts home, the son of two mothers. He had no idea people could even own guns until he was in middle school. But after college, he started shooting for sport – and developed a sharp eye.  As a Jewish man whose wife is Chinese American, he is keenly aware of racial discrimination, and the potential for that to turn into violence. So, he carries a gun for self-defense. Why We Wrote This Forward movement on gun safety at the federal level seems unlikely, even amid a wave of mass violence. Yet as gun owners become more diverse, especially in the sub...

As the United States prepares to remove its troops from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war, the Islamist Taliban are signaling uncompromising positions that appear to barely recognize the dramatic social and political changes in Afghanistan since the U.S. ousted the self-proclaimed “Islamic Emirate” two decades ago. It raises questions about the danger to Afghanistan posed by a Taliban leadership – returning after years in exile – equipped with thinking that analysts say is often still-calcified from a previous era. Why We Wrote This If the ideologically rigid Islamist Taliba...

In this roundup, both high- and low-tech solutions have the potential to correct environmental damage – for small communities and in outer space.