With crumbling infrastructure, officials and health care workers face many of the same problems exposed by Covid.

Less-wealthy institutions may be particularly hard hit by the proposed reductions in funding for biomedical research.

The agency froze most spending above $1. Government researchers now struggle to carry out basic functions of their jobs.

In "Superbloom," Nicholas Carr laments that we live in a state of uncontrollable sensory and communication overload.