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The Kennedy Center describes Nolan Williams Jr. as a “creative force.” He started as an usher at the Kennedy Center when he was a teenager, and on Monday, he will be a guest composer on stage for Damien Geter’s An African-American Requiem. Williams spoke to us about what inspires his work.

It’s been two years since Covid-19 crept across the globe, battered the U.S. economy and wreaked havoc on health-care systems unprepared to defend themselves against the novel pathogen. Now, as the latest wave of infections driven by the fast-spreading omicron variant rapidly subsides, many are beginning to question: Is Covid-19 becoming endemic? “There’s a high probability we’re moving into...

One tool was noticeably absent from the U.S.’s Covid-19 pandemic-fighting arsenal: at-home rapid tests. Despite their short supply, the Biden administration has made it clear that the tests will be critical when it comes to reopening the U.S. economy. The White House is taking a number of steps to bolster supply and lower costs for the over-the-counter tests. The...

In 2017, Elon Musk launched the Boring Company with the goal of solving traffic. So far, it’s opened one project in Las Vegas while others seem to have stalled.

Regenerative farming focuses on replenishing the soil’s nutrients by using things like no-till cultivation, rotational cattle grazing and planting cover crops.