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El Buen Samaritano, an Episcopal outreach ministry in Texas, serves the east side of Austin, the poorer of the two sides of the city split by I-35. There are fewer services there, including many neighborhoods that don’t have a health center. The population is mainly people of color, many whose…

Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at the Yale School of Medicine, says he worries about two kinds of long Covid. There’s the obvious version where people suffer prolonged virus symptoms like fatigue, and a stealthier version in which people recover yet carry an added risk of blood clots and strokes. …

The presidential term of Michel Aoun, his party the Free Patriotic Movement, and his son-in-law Gebran Bassil is over. Characterizations of the past six years in which he ruled can be divided into two main categories: depreciation and demonization. Claims that he and his entourage are responsible…

The Covid pandemic still isn’t over, but it has gone remarkably flat. It’s been nearly a year since Omicron was discovered in South Africa and Botswana, and no new variant of concern has been declared since then by the World Health Organization. That’s a notable interlude, since five were…

For Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, the demise of Friendster is a cautionary tale. Friendster, a social network founded in 2002, gained millions of users soon after it started but lost them almost as quickly, later metamorphosing into an online gaming site based in Malaysia before closing down…

The protests currently underway in Iran tell us that the legitimacy of the regime is weakening or withering away. We are not looking at a familiar scenario. Just as we used to say that the conditions of the countries that witnessed what has falsely been called the Arab Spring are not similar, the…

New York City’s new pay rule takes effect today, requiring companies with at least four workers to include a “good faith” estimate of a minimum and maximum salary in new job listings (including internal promotions and transfers). More pay information for workers sounds like a good thing, and it…

As parents worry over the cases of RSV filling up pediatric hospitals in the US, finally some good news: Vaccines that protect newborns from the virus could be ready in time for next year’s season. Pfizer Inc. today unveiled promising data on a maternal RSV shot that shows it lowered babies’ risk…

The scenes out of Henan province look dramatic. Workers walking down highways, clutching plastic bags filled with belongings in what was described as a mass exodus from Foxconn Technology Group’s iPhone factory in Zhengzhou. Fearful of catching Covid-19, and fed-up with being kept on campus,…

As we approach the midterm elections, most political coverage I see frames the contest as a struggle between Republicans taking advantage of a bad economy and Democrats trying to scare voters about the G.O.P.’s regressive social agenda. Voters do, indeed, perceive a bad economy. But perceptions don…

I know Lebanon, got to know its people and was there for its developmental boom, which paved the course that had been in Europe after the war. A similar boom has been underway for years in the Gulf states, with technological innovation striving in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Kuwait, Manama and…

I know the harshness of the title “former president”. I know that Michel Aoun adores the palace. He would rather leave it in a vacuum than see it occupied by a successor. He had for decades believed that the palace was stolen from him. I had hoped that his farewell would have respected the pain…