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The Complicated Ethics of Keeping a COVID-19 Patient Breathing
Normally, a tracheostomy is a straightforward and uncontroversial procedure. During the pandemic, the question of whom to trach, and when, has presented doctors with one of their most difficult decisions.
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The National Zoo used eight hundred million frozen sperm to help its aging panda matriarch defy the one-per-cent chance she would give birth.
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Can anxious minds find solace working with plants? A therapist and her husband, a garden designer, say yes.
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Joe Biden, America’s Un-Trump
For the Democratic nominee, the 2020 election has always been all about the President.
The Militias Against Masks
Groups protesting lockdown measures see the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for tyranny—and as an opportunity for spreading rage.
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Juan Carlos Ruiz, a Mexican pastor in Brooklyn, does everything from human-rights advocacy to grocery delivery.
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The 1989 movie by the Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine is a bold combination of many genres: it’s a romantic melodrama and a riotous comedy, a political drama, a memory piece, and a work of self-referentiality.
What Navalny’s Poisoning Really Says About Putin’s Russia
The most terrifying thing is not that Putin might have issued orders to kill perceived enemies but that anyone from the ruling circle can use the over-all dysfunction and impunity of Putin’s system to do so on their own.
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