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A Reporter at Large
Ronald Cameron

How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic

The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is leveraging the coronavirus crisis to strip workers of protections.

The Political Scene
Steve Mnuchin

The High-Finance Mogul in Charge of Our Economic Recovery

How Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin became one of the most consequential policymakers in the world.

Novellas
A suburban home seen through binoculars.

“Many a Little Makes”

“Why was Bree the bad apple? The one needing to be banished? How could a girl of fourteen be the one held responsible?”

The Future of Democracy
A woman looking through a rolled up newspaper as a telescope.

How Can the Press Best Serve a Democratic Society?

In the nineteen-forties, a panel of scholars struggled over truth in reporting, the marketplace of ideas, and the maintenance of a free and responsible press. Their deliberations are more relevant than ever.

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This Week in Fiction
Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson on Expanding the World of “Gilead”

The author discusses “Jack and Della,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine.

Annals of History
Black Death

How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds

The plague marked the end of the Middle Ages and the start of a great cultural renewal. Could the coronavirus, for all its destruction, offer a similar opportunity for radical change?

Culture Desk
Haim.

HAIM Is Talking About Everything It Wasn’t Talking About Before

The new album “Women in Music Pt. III” sounds coherent and yet pleasantly disjointed—like a band purposefully trying to wriggle free of its past.

Our Columnists
One person walks across a quad at Bowdoin.

What Do College Students Think of Schools’ Reopening Plans?

They should be taking the lead in reimagining what higher learning can look like during the pandemic.

Dispatch
Sun setting behind the JBA meatpacking facility

How COVID-19 Swept Through the Texas Panhandle

No matter what, the meatpacking plants had to stay open. The rest of the world was distanced, but workers had to keep coming in.

Crossword
Eustace with a crossword puzzle

A Challenging Puzzle

First Schwarzenegger film to reuse the catchphrase “I’ll be back”: eight letters.

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A Turtle Leaves

Turtle slowly comes out of its shell.

Leaving is scary.

2:00 P.M.

Betsy DeVos Promises to Protect Children from Education

Betsy DeVos listens during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing.

DeVos said parents were concerned that, if their children return to school in the fall, they might be exposed to learning. “That will not happen on my watch,” she promised.

10:32 A.M.

Daily Cartoon: Monday, July 13th

“A year ago, I would’ve been scared, but right now I’m pretty excited.”

9:24 A.M.

Summer Traditions: COVID-19 Edition

Two people with mask tan lines.

The pandemic is no barrier to (well-protected, socially distant) seasonal fun.

July 12, 2020

Sunday Reading: Summer Sojourns

Empty chairs on a beach

From the archive: stories about summer vacations in and outside of New York City.

July 12, 2020
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Tables for Two

Goldbelly Ships
Restaurant
Food to Your Home

The online startup sends meal kits and menu items from beloved restaurants nationwide, from Raoul’s decadent burger au poivre to Veselka’s borscht and pierogi.

A Critic at Large
The Chinatown Squad

The Invention of the Police

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

Housebound Sound
jarvis cocker

Jarvis Cocker Asks, “Must I Evolve?”

The Britpop icon and former Pulp front man chats about his thing for caves and his new record, “Beyond the Pale,” which just might have predicted the coronavirus lockdown.

Fiction
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“Jack and Della”

“She couldn’t be seen walking down the street with him without damage to her reputation, a risk a teacher can’t take.”

Video

When Humanitarian Aid Is Considered a Crime

Scott Warren’s arrest for providing shelter to two migrants posed a question to his community and the court: Under what circumstances could humanitarian aid be deemed illegal?

Daily Cartoon

Podcasts

Michaela Coel of “I May Destroy You,” and the State of the Biden Campaign

An illustrated portrait of Micaela Coel as her character in "I May Destroy You"

Staff writers discuss how the Democratic Presidential candidate is handling one of the most tumultuous periods in modern times. Plus, a conversation with Coel about dramatizing sexual assault on television.

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