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Read The New Yorker’s complete coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests.
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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?
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Jeff Sessions’s Defeat in Alabama, a Final Insult from Trump
The President’s interest in the Republican primary seemed to be about continuing to punish his former Attorney General. He had already cast him out of Washington; now he wanted to bury him.
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The Promising Results of a Citywide Basic-Income Experiment
A program in Stockton, California—historically, the foreclosure capital of the U.S.—has been providing an unconditional five hundred dollars per month to a group of residents.
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The Art of the Uncooked Summer Dinner
In the freezer, as the heat bears down like a beautiful hell, I always have popsicles.
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How Texas Republicans Politicized the Coronavirus
The machismo inherent in taking risks during a pandemic is particularly potent in Texas, where the state G.O.P. lauds “self-respect and self-reliance.”
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Anthony Fauci’s Advice for Healing the Economy
By emphasizing the need to stop the renewed spread of the virus, Fauci is dispensing information that jibes with what experts are saying is necessary for real economic recovery.
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The Slob-Chic Style of the Pandemic
What to wear when there’s nobody to dress up for except your cat—and Zoom.
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The Argument of “Afropessimism”
Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.
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Revisiting “A Time for Burning” and the Spiritual Crisis of Racism
In William Jersey’s 1966 documentary about the efforts of a Lutheran minister to break the racial barrier, church is “a hospital for sinners,” a place where the scourge of white supremacism must be addressed.
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A Moderately Challenging Puzzle
Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction: five letters.
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Al Capone’s Tax Returns
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The mobster could have got away with tax evasion, too, had he not done such an incredibly bad job on his tax returns, which have been made public for the first time.
Trump Claims Biden Could Never Have a Pandemic As Big As His
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Trump said that Biden’s failure to have “any pandemic worth writing home about” makes him a “terrible choice” to be President.
Valuable Lessons I Learned from Statues
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Without Mount Rushmore, I would totally have forgotten about that crazy time we had a four-headed man as our U.S. President.
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The Fresh Relevance of the Dance on Camera Festival
The festival, now in its forty-eighth year, will stream films including Susan Misner’s “Bend” and Khadifa Wong’s “Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance.”
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“Palm Springs” and the Comedy of Eternity
Following in the footsteps of “Groundhog Day,” Max Barbakow’s spirited film turns a wedding into Purgatory, with bumbling speeches and so-so canapés on endless repeat.
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Is Working with the Lincoln Project Sleeping with the Enemy?
Heath Eiden, a video producer who volunteered for Walter Mondale’s campaign as a kid, followed the “enemy-of-my-enemy” principle when he shot the new anti-Trump “Betrayed” ad.
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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.”
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Three women in competitive mountain biking examine their relationships with falling, both on and off the course.