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Briefing: 7 Big Challenges for the Next CDC Director

Strategic angle: Whoever takes over the CDC next will face immediate and enormous challenges. Here are a few.

Briefing: Health care jobs growth is stagnating at the biggest for-profit firms

Strategic angle: Major health insurers are trimming jobs, and Medicaid cuts could soon force hospitals to lay off workers.

Editorial Staff Mar 30

Life

Briefing: Opinion: Remembering public health pioneer Barry Bloom: a scientist, a mentor, a mensch

Strategic angle: Marc Lipsitch and Yonatan Grad pay tribute to their former colleague and mentor Barry R. Bloom.

Editorial Staff Mar 30

Life

Briefing: Opinion: STAT+: Washington is on the verge of true PBM reform

Strategic angle: Like it or not, PBMs are fiduciaries.

Editorial Staff Mar 30

Environment

Briefing: With its new farm bill, Florida’s climate fight just hit a tractor-sized roadblock

Strategic angle: The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.

Editorial Staff Mar 30

Science

Briefing: Apollo vs. Artemis: What to know about NASA's return to the moon

Strategic angle: NASA's Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time.

Editorial Staff Mar 30

Politics

Briefing: How Costa Rica is taking its sustainable crops global with Amazon

Strategic angle: Costa Rica is using Amazon to connect European consumers with sustainably produced crops, from coffee and cassava to tropical fruits like pineapple and bananas.

Editorial Staff Mar 30

Politics

Briefing: Three killed as unfinished building collapses on church service in Ghana

Strategic angle: Locals say the structure, in a school complex, was in use despite lying unfinished for a number of years.

Editorial Staff Mar 30

Science

Artemis 2 astronauts arrive at KSC

The four Artemis 2 astronauts arrived in Florida for final preparations ahead of their upcoming launch.

Editorial Staff Mar 30

Tech

Briefing: How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026

Strategic angle: Insights and strategies for thriving in the evolving tech landscape.

Editorial Staff Mar 30