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Read The New Yorker’s complete coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests.

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?

Campaign Chronicles
Supporters hold signs and listen as former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks.

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.

News Desk
Tents set up under an overpass.

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.

Kitchen Notes
Lemons on a mirror reflecting the sky.

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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News Desk
A sign on the door.

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.”

Our Columnists
Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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.

On and Off the Avenue
working from home

The Slob-Chic Style of the Pandemic

What to wear when there’s nobody to dress up for except your cat—and Zoom.

Books
Ralph Ellison.

The Argument of “Afropessimism”

Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.

The Front Row
William Youngdahl preaching.

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.

Crossword
Eustace with a crossword puzzle

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

Al Copone's 1928 tax return.

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.

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 15th

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“Look on the bright side—you could be watching the Mets right now.”

11:44 A.M.

Trump Claims Biden Could Never Have a Pandemic As Big As His

US President Donald Trump gestures as he delivers a press conference in the Rose Garden.

Trump said that Biden’s failure to have “any pandemic worth writing home about” makes him a “terrible choice” to be President.

10:31 A.M.

Valuable Lessons I Learned from Statues

Sun setting behind Statue of Liberty

Without Mount Rushmore, I would totally have forgotten about that crazy time we had a four-headed man as our U.S. President.

Things I’ve Mistaken My Hair for in My Peripheral Vision

Hair in peripheral vision.

A ghost, an intruder, the landlord, a bird . . .

July 14, 2020
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Dance
Feet suspended in air.

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.”

The Current Cinema
Palm Springs

“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.

On the Hustings
watching tv

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.

Fiction
umbrella

“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

For Mountain Bikers, Crashing Has Its Own Allure

Three women in competitive mountain biking examine their relationships with falling, both on and off the course.

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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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