Joshua Yaffa

published in The New Yorker
Yaffa frames the international struggle to develop a COVID-19 vaccine as a race. This is indicated by the name of Russia's state-funded vaccine: Sputnik V. To win this race, he documents how Russian scientists cut corners to get the vaccine out. But can those shortcuts take away from the efficacy of it?
1164 days ago

published in The New Yorker
We hear over and over that Russia is influencing our democracy, as if we were still in the grip of the Cold War. We hear of troll farms online and disinformation campaigns. But could it be that our focus on foreign interference is masking the damage that we are doing to our own democracy?
1310 days ago