The Big Take

For anyone hoping to see light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel over the next three to six months, scientists have some bad news: Brace for more of what we’ve already been through. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "Pandemic's Next Six Months Will Pit Vaccines Against Variants."

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For years, America’s most upbeat retailer funded surveillance to make inner cities safe—for some. Now it’s trying to convince people of color that it’s changed.

Bloomberg Businessweek's Mark Leydorf reads "Target’s Cozy Police Legacy Leaves Black Americans Wary."

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In the complicated new math of climate solutions, villagers clearing brush in southern Africa can end up redefining networks of global commerce worth billions of dollars. Environmental projects stand as shadow partners to emission-heavy energy trades happening far away. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "How to Sell ‘Carbon Neutral’ Fossil Fuel That Doesn’t Exist."

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Restricted information flows can mask political and regulatory problems as well as potential fraud and corruption, raising the risks of doing business — particularly in more volatile emerging markets where good-quality information may already be scarce. Yet in an era when environmental, social and governance investing is increasingly in the spotlight, press freedom is still low on most investors’ list of concerns. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "Investors Are Ignoring a Dangerous Crackdown on Press Freedom"

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Children have to get vaccinated for less urgent threats—and it works. So why not with Covid? Bloomberg Businessweek's Mark Leydorf reads "Vaccine Mandates for Kids Could Be the Next Big Back-to-School Fight"

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Brazil’s rainforest is being stolen and cleared at an accelerating pace, and the Bolsonaro government is fanning the flames. Bloomberg Businessweek's Mark Leydorf reads "The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return." 

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After calamity and years of restrained ambition under cost-obsessed executives at Boeing, the company that was once a factory of dreams is losing workers to SpaceX and Amazon. Bloomberg's Laura Carlson reads "Boeing’s Talent Exodus Threatens Turnaround"

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For much of the pandemic, variant sequencing in the U.S. has been piecemeal, spread between academic research labs, hospitals, philanthropist-funded nonprofits, state health departments, and rare commercial participants.

Bloomberg's Mark Leydorf reads "Hunting Delta" from Bloomberg Businessweek.

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Bloomberg Opinion's John Authers reads his story: "Authers’ Indicators Show Undeniable Inflation Reality."

Inflation is a complex phenomenon that grows from many places. These 35 key measures offer up a more nuanced picture of how markets are positioned, what the official data say and what consumers and businesses are discounting.

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Bloomberg's Renita Young reads "Many New mRNA Applications." This story, by Robert Langreth for Bloomberg Businessweek, explains how Moderna plans to use its mRNA technology to develop shots for influenza, HIV, Zika—and maybe even cancer.

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