The Pentagon says it killed the planner of the Kabul airport attack. President Biden has been warned that additional attacks are likely. / USA Today, CNN Several of the American soldiers killed at the airport were babies when the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001. / The Guardian Lessons from Africa that apply
Will Hoenig: I think the reality of endemic Covid needs to be communicated to the world at this point. / Twitter If you're fully vaccinated, what's your risk of "long Covid" as the delta variant spreads? / The San Francisco Chronicle Helen Branswell: More than 200
A cascading number of European countries have halted distributing the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine over concerns about blood clotting. / The Associated Press More than 17 million people have received the AZ vaccine. As of March 8, only 37 people subsequently developed blood clots. / Quartz The EU's medicine regulator
Dexter Filkins assesses the state of negotiations in Afghanistan amid an ongoing assassination campaign (possibly from both sides). / The New Yorker Statistics reveal that the police in South Africa are substantially more violent than those in the US. / Africa Is a Country In France, the Redouane case represents the agonizing
Think your job has gotten strange in the past month? Imagine being tasked with rescuing humanity from a pandemic. See also: How Anthony Fauci became America’s doctor. The UN and Bill Gates criticize President Trump’s decision to withdraw funding for the World Health Organization. President Obama endorses Joe
The White House invokes the Defense Production Act for ventilator manufacturing. Google will start releasing user location data in 131 countries, “aggregated and anonymized,” to assess the effectiveness of social distancing rules. The Earth is actually moving less, thanks to the coronavirus. Related/unrelated: Mars may be made of “mashed-up
US health authorities say they’ve identified the first case of coronavirus that doesn’t have known ties to an existing outbreak. Saudi Arabia halts travel to the holiest sites in Islam over coronavirus fears just months ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Amid the coronavirus lockdown, Chinese social media
The House of Representatives approves its first resolution related to an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump: an explainer. Another Trump aide confirms that military aid to Ukraine was linked to an investigation of Trump’s political rivals. “We think we’re ready.” Democrats reach the end of closed-door depositions. Trump
A slip of the tongue may best explain Trump's collective foreign policy: to align the United States with white nations. Secretary of State Pompeo calls China's large-scale detention of Muslims and other minorities the human rights "stain of the century." From a meeting with
