‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America
For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.
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CreditL. Kasimu Harris for The New York Times Can the Trump Campaign Rewrite the Story of the Trump Presidency?
Brad Parscale sees a path to victory through discounted Facebook ads and keeping Trump on TV.
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Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?
The tree helped build industrial America before disease wiped out an estimated three billion or more of them. To revive their lost glory, we may need to embrace tinkering with nature.
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How Do You Run for President During a Pandemic?
Joe Biden’s primary victory seemed like a vindication of the idea that in politics, the internet isn’t real life. What happens now that it is?
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How Covid-19 Has Forced Us to Look at the Unthinkable
The coronavirus hasn’t just caused misery in New York City — it has also reminded many of the suffering that was already there.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Mike McQuade ScreenlandStephen King Has an Idea for the Story Joe Biden Could Be Telling
“Do you want somebody who’s capable of dealing with a situation like coronavirus or do you want somebody who’s so focused on his self-image that he’s not able to do that?”
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether you’re helping more people by having goods delivered or by going to the store yourself — and more.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistHer M.R.I. Came Back Normal After a Seizure. Could It Be Covid-19?
Her urine showed what might be an infection, but despite antibiotics, the patient spiked a fever two days later.
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Rajma, Punjabi-style red beans, is the best kind of comfort food right now.
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What Phone Calls Have Given Me That Video Chat Can’t
Just as I’m imagining their environment, their clothes, their gestures, they’re imagining me. We’re making a cocoon where only the two of us live.
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1970s radio station vibes or a higher step count?
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