Pandemic

On his first day working in aged care, Pratik Sigdel was told by a resident to go back to where he came from. He had arrived in the country less than a year earlier from Nepal — and entered a job where racism became a part of his everyday professional…

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The pandemic’s formal end on May 11 marks neither victory nor peace: It’s a cessation of hostilities with a dangerous virus that is still very much with us. To maintain such an uneasy truce, Americans will have to stay protected enough to prevent humanity’s viral foe from staging a break-out…

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The internet watchdog Stanford Internet Observatory launched a wide-scale effort during the pandemic to scrub social media platforms of disfavored COVID-related views regardless of whether the posts were true, according to the latest installment of the “Twitter Files.” Internal emails unveiled on Friday by journalist Matt Taibbi show how the…

At the height of the global pandemic, the Pentagon in August 2021 decreed that all U.S. troops must get the COVID-19 vaccine, then launched a logistical push to get the shot to every service member stationed anywhere in the world. Last December, amid heightened clashes over the vaccine mandates and…

The changes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our society are still being felt, and so are the changes that it has had on our language. A close up photo of a page from a dictionary. Credit: Joshua Hoehne / Unsplash This month marks the beginning of my third…

A very Irish-American president finally got to experience the most Irish presidential tradition after years of pandemic restrictions canceled the annual St. Patrick's Day toast in the Capitol with Irish leadership. President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., took the opportunity to flex their shared Irish heritage at Friday's…

Popcorn in a movie theater. Photo: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images The box office is showing signs of life again after a stagnant few years due to the pandemic and patrons are returning to a revamped movie theater experience. The big picture: Hundreds of theaters have shuttered since the…

From Lululemon’s meteoric rise to the endless wave of Chinese athleisure brands like Particle Fever and Maia Active, women’s activewear has surged in popularity over the past few years. It’s a generational response to the global fitness trend, with experienced and first-time gym-goers alike hitting the exercise floor to participate in…