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Melody Schreiber

How Rapid Reinfection Has Changed the Covid Fight

New variants can infect people who had Covid-19 as recently as a few months ago.

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Former President George W. Bush grimaces as he stands behind the lectern in the White House Press Room.

George W. Bush Makes a Brutal Return to Our Psyche

The former president’s recent Ukraine-or-Iraq invasion gaffe was a high-test dose of accidental honesty—and painful nostalgia.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Trump at a press briefing

Mark Esper’s Fascinating Revelations Would Have Been Far More So in Real Time

If he and John Bolton and Bill Barr and all the other “adults in the room” had spoken up when it mattered, history could be different.