Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death Is One More Terrible Blow in a Year of Loss

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September 21, 2020

Dear Reader, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of women's rights and one of the Supreme Court's most liberal justices, died on Friday. Her absence from the bench could accelerate a trend underway to get cases to the Supreme Court toward invalidating the Affordable Care Act and rolling back reproductive rights for women. It also could affect how the court comes down on pending challenges to the Trump administration's environmental agenda. For more on her legacy, read our lead story and a few other pieces featured in today's roundup.

Sunya Bhutta, Senior Editor, Audience Engagement @sunyaaa

Policy & Ethics Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death Is One More Terrible Blow in a Year of Loss She was a champion of equality under the law and would have played a crucial role in key cases that bear on environmental protection By Andrew Rosenberg

Public Health How Ginsburg's Death Threatens the Affordable Care Act and Reproductive Rights As the Trump administration eyes a speedy replacement, the court will hear a case against the health care law a week after the election By Julie Rovner,Kaiser Health News

Math For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Number 42 Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians By Jean-Paul Delahaye

Computing The Quantum Butterfly Noneffect A familiar concept from chaos theory turns out to work differently in the quantum world By Nikolai Sinitsyn,Bin Yan

Electronics Mining Rare-Earth Elements from Fossilized Fish Strange as it might seem, a 2,500-square-kilometer zone south of one tiny Pacific island could supply four substances that are crucial to modern electronics for centuries By Jennifer Frazer

Environment Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leaves a Nuanced Legacy on Environmental Issues Her jurisprudence involved complex considerations of climate change lawsuits and greenhouse gas emissions By Pamela King,E&E News

Behavior & Society We Need to Do More Research on Honesty Scientists and philosophers know a lot about why we lie. Now let's figure out how not to do so By Judi Ketteler

Policy & Ethics Who Benefits from Public Green Space? The High Line in New York City shows that the answer can be the wealthy, who flock to live nearby, driving up property values and driving out long-term, low-income residents By Mallory Richards

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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