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Medical Dispatch
Joe Biden wrestling a giant coronavirus while a crowd cheers on.

Biden’s Pandemic Plan Might Just Work

The coronavirus is devastating America, and getting worse—but it’s not too late for a concerted effort to save countless lives.

Personal History

Living with a Visionary

For more than fifty years, my wife and I shared a world. Then, as Diana’s health declined, her hallucinations became her own reality.

Our Columnists
Two children play beside a trailer.

Child Poverty and the Essence of Bidenomics

By targeting Americans that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, and also addressing lasting inequities, the new Administration is approaching this moment as one of great potential as well as great peril.

Our Columnists
Jerusalem viewed from the West Bank side of the separation wall

Why an Israeli Human-Rights Organization Called Israel an Apartheid Regime

There is no guarantee that B’Tselem’s statement will enable change, although it has infuriated the government.

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Cultural Comment
Still from Soul where three taller figures are looking down on the two main characters Joe and Twenty-two

Pixar’s Troubled “Soul”

The most glaring artistic error in “Soul” is its misprision—its elision, really—of what soul means for black culture.

Letter from Washington
Mitch McConnell

Why McConnell Dumped Trump

After the Capitol assault—and after losing his perch as Majority Leader—the senator finally denounced the outgoing President. Was it a moral reckoning or yet another act of political self-interest?

Our Columnists
Police officers confront a large crowd of protesters during a demonstration.

Putin’s Unchanging, Unthinking Response to Alexey Navalny

Navalny is not only spectacularly brave but also fantastically inventive. The Russian President responds with blunt force.

Cultural Comment
Jimi Hendrix plays in front of a crowd at Woodstock.

Rewinding
Jimi Hendrix’s National Anthem

His blazing rendition still echoes throughout the years, reminding us of what is worth fighting for in the American experiment.

Annals of Architecture
Office

Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?

Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace.

Crossword
Eustace with a crossword puzzle

A Moderately Challenging Puzzle

Piece that two people can’t share: four letters.

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Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice

Pellet ice.

And to know it is to need it.

5:50 P.M.

How to Craft in the New Year

Person holds their head in their hand and looks at the glue.

Do you care enough about this project to take the subway to another borough for glue?

2:41 P.M.

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 27th

“Just for fun, let’s make what is and isn’t constitutional kind of wishy-washy.”

Republicans Say It Is Unconstitutional to Hold Officials Accountable Unless They Are Hillary

Hillary Clinton testifies.

“To see legal guardrails that James Madison explicitly designed for Hillary Clinton used on someone who is demonstrably not Hillary Clinton is a disgrace,” one senator said.

10:22 A.M.

A Former “Bachelor” Contestant Applies for a Job at the Gap

A woman chooses pants from rack in a store.

“Why do you want this job?” Because I’ve never felt like this before.

7:00 A.M.
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Tables for Two
A person's hand with sliced vegetables on their fingers, surrounded by other food on a mirror.

A Deeper Understanding of Mexican Food at Gastronomy Underground

After the pandemic halted their careers in high-end restaurants, Pablo Rojas and Roxanna Mejia have taken to devising regionally inspired taco sets and creative tasting menus for delivery.

The Art World
Morandi’s “Natura Morta (Still Life)"

The Revelations of an Unlikely Pairing

In a show at Zwirner, the soft cosmos of Giorgio Morandi’s domestic tableaux is relieved and refreshed by the architectonics of Josef Albers’s squares.

Paris Postcard
Vanessa Springora

A Parisian Writes Her Revenge

Vanessa Springora was fourteen when the distinguished writer Gabriel Matzneff took her as his mistress. Decades later, she has published “Consent,” a memoir about his “triple predation—sexual, literary, and psychic.”

Fiction
sunrise

“The Wind”

“Mama, we need to drive, my mother said. We need to drive now. We need to go.”

Video

The Seminole Tribe Perfected Alligator Wrestling

“Being able to be so close to an animal who is so powerful and has lasted so long, you have to show it respect.”

Daily Cartoon

Podcasts

Jane Mayer and Evan Osnos on the Balance of Power in a New Washington

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden with their hands on a bible in front of a large US flag.

Two New Yorker political writers on the early days of President Biden’s agenda, and the limits of the Democrats’ control. Plus, a lesson in digital archeology.

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