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The 8.9.20 Issue

Highlights

  2. The Covid Drug Wars That Pitted Doctor vs. Doctor

    How much freedom should front-line clinicians have in treating Covid-19 patients with unproven drugs? The question opened up a civil war in some hospitals.

     By Susan Dominus

    In the absence of conclusive research for Covid-19 treatments, many doctors are having to rely on their experience to make judgment calls about medications.
    CreditAdam Ferguson for The New York Times
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    Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be Free

    He fled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He exposed Australia’s offshore detention camps — from the inside. He survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

     By Megan K. Stack

    Behrouz Boochani’s book, “No Friend but the Mountains,” won the prestigious Victorian Prize for Literature in 2019 while he was still detained on Manus Island.
    CreditBirgit Krippner for The New York Times

  1. Poem: i want to speak of unity

    A poem that testifies to the deepest parts of the American dream from the times when hope was bright.

     By Juan Felipe Herrera and Naomi Shihab Nye

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    Poem

  2. Padma Lakshmi Wants Us to Eat More Adventurously

    “There’s such a laziness about reaching for the thing that is most familiar.”

     By David Marchese

    CreditMamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times
    Talk

  3. Judge John Hodgman on Walking and Talking

    Is it acceptable to stop in your tracks and laugh? What if your partner doesn’t notice you’re no longer at his side?

     By Judge John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

  4. Is It OK That I Haven’t Told My Parents I Was Fired?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on why it can be hard to tell family you’ve lost your job, whether to collect unemployment benefits and more.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  5. Fly Casting on City Streets Is Weird. That’s Why I Love It.

    I’m desperate to find pockets of joy wherever I can. Some people bake bread. I started street-casting on West 12th.

     By Jon Gluck

    CreditMalike Sidibe for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation

  1. How to Keep a Condor Wild

    Faced with such a strange big bird, you might find yourself nervously talking baby talk. Don’t do that.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  2. These Rolls Will Change the Way You See Sourdough

    The baker Bryan Ford’s pan de coco, made with coconut milk, does not look like European sourdough — and that’s part of the pleasure.

     By Tejal Rao

    Choco pan de coco.
    CreditHeami Lee for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky.
    Eat

  3. Behind the Cover: Sweatpants Forever

    A look at the collapse of the fashion industry and the triumphant rise of sweatpants.

     

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