Declining childhood vaccination rates have allowed measles cases to rise in communities across the country. The highly contagious virus now poses direct risks to unvaccinated students waiting for school transportation. The editorial argues that parents who skip shots are endangering classmates who rely on herd immunity for protection.
A bearded man crawls across a vast desert under a fierce sun, his words trailing from pleas for water into demands for reduced CO2 emissions, green renewable energy and expanded public transportation. The June 30, 2021 cartoon by Christopher Weyant responds to the deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave that brought record temperatures to the West Coast. Weyant uses the parched setting to link immediate suffering with the need for policy shifts on fossil fuels and transit. The image appeared in the Boston Globe amid ongoing coverage of climate impacts and calls for mitigation.
