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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.

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John Lewis

The Essential and Enduring Strength of John Lewis

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

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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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Chance the Rapper

Chance the Rapper Is Still Figuring Things Out

The artist on the two-party system, Black liberation theology, and learning from his mistakes.

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Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen

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.

Personal History
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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?

Our Local Correspondents
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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.

Medical Dispatch
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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.

Under Review
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The Depression-Era Book That Wanted to Cancel the Rent

“Modern Housing,” 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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Uses for Your COVID-19 Supplies After the Pandemic

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What to do with your masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, and more during better times.

7:00 A.M.

Trump Replaces Mary Trump with Kayleigh McEnany as Niece

Kayleigh McEnany

With only three and a half months to go until the election, replacing family members could be seen as a sign of desperation, political insiders said.

July 18, 2020

Additional New York City Reopening Phases

King Kong hangs from a building.

Phase XVII: Giant, apelike creatures will once again be permitted to scale the city’s skyscrapers.

July 18, 2020

What to Stream: “Come and Get It,” One of the Greatest Films by Howard Hawks

A still from "Come and Get It," Frances Farmer, 1936.

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.

July 17, 2020
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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.”

Pop Music
The Chicks

Why the Chicks Dropped Their “Dixie”

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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The Halted Progress of Criminal-Justice Reform

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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“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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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

Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism, and the Perils of Prison Reform

An illustrated portrait of Chance the Rapper with a group of protesters

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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