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The Essential and Enduring Strength of John Lewis
What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.
How Munich Turned Its Coronavirus Outbreak Into a Scientific Study
Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians University devised a system for widespread antibody testing and contact tracing that has helped the city stem the virus’s spread.
Driving Cross-Country: A Coronavirus Diary
I didn’t expect much serendipity on this trip. I had a sleeping bag, in case it came to that, and enough hand sanitizer to disinfect the nation.
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The artist on the two-party system, Black liberation theology, and learning from his mistakes.
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Two Former Fed Chairs Offer a Lesson on Coronavirus Economics
The two former Fed chairs persuasively explained why Congress should extend supplementary unemployment payments and provide additional financial support to state and local governments.
What Is Distance Learning For?
Ms. V did this with eighteen kids, every single day. How hard could it be for us to do it with one kid, our own?
How New York Activists Revealed Police-Department Secrets
The widespread protests over George Floyd’s death helped prompt legislators to repeal a law known as Section 50-A, which kept police disciplinary records from public view.
To Fight the Coronavirus, You Need an Army
In responding to COVID-19, doctors in Houston are discovering that their most precious resource is people.
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“Modern Housing,â€? by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.
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Phase XVII: Giant, apelike creatures will once again be permitted to scale the city’s skyscrapers.
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The boisterous melodrama, from 1936, is a mysterious outpost of Hawks’s distinctive and original cinematic universe, a tale that seethes with perversity beneath its robust surfaces.
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism, and the Perils of Prison Reform
David Remnick talks with the hip-hop star about political change at the local and national levels. And two prison abolitionists talk about reforms that may do as much harm as good.
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The all-female country band, which survived an instance of proto-cancel culture for its politics in the past, again wants to meet the current moment.
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Prosecutors are charging protesters with federal crimes, exposing them to long prison sentences, in another example of the Justice Department’s grotesque overreach under Attorney General William Barr.
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David Remnick talks with the hip-hop star about political change at the local and national levels. And two prison abolitionists talk about reforms that may do as much harm as good.
