The Price of Something So Fundamental Is Swinging Like a Pendulum

It’s Tuesday, March 21, 2023. On today’s show: 

Biden signed a bill ordering the director of national intelligence to declassify  information related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a potential origin of COVID-19 within 90 days. USA Today has more. 

Meanwhile, the Atlantic details the strongest evidence yet that an animal started the pandemic. 

U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq 20 years ago. CNN reports on what life is like for ordinary people there now. 

American veterans won justice for burn-pit exposure. The Washington Post reports on how Iraqis were forgotten. 

Gas bills are on a roller-coaster ride with no end in sight. The Wall Street Journal examines the reasons for the turbulence.

And, Houston, we have a space-trash problem. Time reports on the scientists sounding the alarm over the jaw-dropping amount of human-made debris circling Earth.