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The 6.21.20 Issue

Highlights

  2. Feature

    How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases

    What do Covid-19, Ebola, Lyme and AIDS have in common? They jumped to humans from animals after we started destroying habitats and ruining ecosystems.

     By Ferris Jabr

    CreditIllustration by Mario Hugo
  3. Talk

    Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In

    In the five years since Jon Stewart left ‘The Daily Show,’ American politics has been in a state of constant turmoil and he has remained mostly out of the spotlight.

     By David Marchese

    CreditBobby Doherty for The New York Times

  1. We Need to Stop Measuring Black Lives by Their Whiteness

    When a plea for mutual understanding went viral, it also revealed the limits of America’s racial imagination.

     By Thomas Chatterton Williams

    CreditPhoto illustration by Mark Weaver
    Screenland

  2. How Should I Think About Race When Considering a Sperm Donor?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on thinking about race when choosing a sperm donor and whether it’s OK to call the cops on your neighbors.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  3. She Struggled With Asthma, but It Had Never Been This Bad

    She had trouble breathing, and the E.R. doctors discovered a mass in her lung. Was this cancer — or something a little more unusual?

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

    CreditIllustration by Ina Jang
    Diagnosis

  4. The Unexpected Beauty of ‘Dog Vomit’ and Other Slime Molds

    A world of life and color surrounded me during decades of wandering the woods, without my ever having noticed it.

     By Daniel Mason

    CreditPhotographs by Alison Pollack
    Letter of Recommendation

  5. This Cajun Corn Dish Screams ‘Summer’

    Maque choux is sweet, hot, juicy, milky, buttery perfection.

     By Gabrielle Hamilton

    Maque choux.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    eat

  1. Poem: Black Snow

    A poem that stares straight into grief’s paralysis and the continual climbing out — simply to do whatever small things follow.

     By Carl Adamshick and Naomi Shihab Nye

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    Poem

  2. Judge John Hodgman on Ceiling Fans

    Is it spinning clockwise or counterclockwise? Is the floor the ceiling?

     By Judge John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

  3. How to Clean Up After Others

    Wear a face mask, surgical gloves and a uniform or extra-large T-shirt over your clothes that you can peel off.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  4. Behind the Cover: Policing

    For this issue, a look at how to reform policing in the United States.

     

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    Issue 6.21.20

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