Investing in public infrastructure should be at the center of a 21st-century civil-rights agenda. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into the fall, the Trump administration has ruled out any further action on a federal relief package.
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Regeneron has filed for FDA emergency use authorization (EUA) of its COVID-19 antibody cocktail. President Donald Trump, who received REGN-COV2 after catching the virus, said he has “emergency use authorization all set” and will make the antibody cocktail available for “free.”
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.
Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways — drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries, and on which the world’s economies rely.
Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
