Aug 26, 2021What Could Go Right? Three cheers for full approvalThis is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 6am ET. You can read past issues here. Three cheers for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who granted full approval to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, a decision…Greece7 min readGreece7 min read
Aug 19, 2021What Could Go Right? A little humanity in AfghanistanThis is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 6am ET. You can read past issues here. Progress is not an inexorable march forward. It can stall, stop, and disappear. When it does, what’s required of us is…Afghanistan6 min readAfghanistan6 min read
Aug 19, 2021CovidnomicsThis is the August 12 edition of TPN Member Diane Francis’ newsletter. Read other installments and subscribe here. Pandemics upend societies and economies and the Covid crisis has been no less disruptive than others. The “Plague” or “Black Death” began in 1346 and swept Eurasia and North Africa for generations…Covid 19 Crisis6 min readCovid 19 Crisis6 min read
Aug 19, 2021What Could Go Right? Our resilient climate futureThis is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 6am ET. You can read past issues here. Code red for humanity. Time is running out. We’ve spent the week scouring coverage of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…Climate Change7 min readClimate Change7 min read
Jul 23, 2021After the BurningI grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, a teen witness to the rise of violent theocrats in my country. In 2007, Al Qaeda kidnapped and killed my brother Samir while he was on his way to work with his friends. Our neighborhood police station, which was right in front of my…3 min read3 min read
Jul 22, 2021What Could Go Right? The kids are safeThis is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 6am ET. You can read past issues here. The kids were safe the whole time. If you, like the markets, are nervously trying to assess where the Delta variant…Environment5 min readEnvironment5 min read
Jul 16, 2021What Could Go Right? Cancer’s big declineThis is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 6am ET. You can read past issues here. When was the last time you were excited to read an article about colonoscopies? Right, never. Except for this: now that…Cancer7 min readCancer7 min read
Jul 8, 2021What Could Go Right? Single-use plastic’s death knellThis is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 6am ET. You can read past issues here. For whom the bell tolls? Single-use plastic. On Sunday, the European Union’s ban on ten single-use plastic items like cutlery, straws…Environment7 min readEnvironment7 min read
Jul 8, 2021What Could Go Right? COVID immunity for yearsThis is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 6am ET. You can read past issues here. The horrifying building collapse in Miami, Florida is on a lot of minds this week. To borrow an idea from Buddhist…7 min read7 min read
Jun 24, 2021What Could Go Right? Better work, and less of itThis is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 6am. You can read past issues here. While we’ve been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, Guinea has been battling another deadly disease: Ebola. Thankfully, last Saturday the West African…Guinea5 min readGuinea5 min read
