A flood of news, including some harrowing news about a flood. Plus: three bingeable new releases for your Netflix queue.
It’s Monday, February 24. A flood of news, including some harrowing news about a flood. Plus: three bingeable new releases for your Netflix queue.
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What We’re Following
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Harvey Weinstein’s trial resulted in the rarest of rare things: a rape conviction.
Yet it’s “also, in a way, a warning to victims,” argues Barbara Bradley Hagerty, whom you may remember from her 2019 cover story on America’s backlog of untested rape kits.
The new coronavirus is here, and you’re likely to catch it.
“I think the likely outcome is that it will ultimately not be containable,” the Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch told our health reporter James Hamblin.
Over the weekend, Nevada chose Bernie Sanders. Will more states follow?
If Sanders does continue to pull ahead, Edward-Isaac Dovere argues, it’s unclear how (or if) the party will formally coalesce behind a candidate who’s long preached against the type of politics shared by many Democrats.
Large swaths of eastern Kentucky are underwater as a result of catastrophic flooding.
“I bet most Americans have no idea this natural disaster has been happening,” Silas House, a writer based in the state, writes.
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From Our Critics
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Keep your Netflix queue stuffed through the end of the winter with three bingeable new releases.
Yes, this visual feast is a competition show. But don’t expect acres of snark and drama alongside the tulle and silk. The contestants on this show work collaboratively, in pairs—and are refreshingly kind to one another.
After last year’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before won over viewers worldwide (including our own Hannah Giorgis), it was evident that a sequel “was never going to be able to capture the sheer novelty of the original.” But it can come pretty close.
The show tackles the complicated dynamics of gentrification by zooming in on a fictional Mexican family and their Los Angeles community.
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Dear Therapist
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Every Monday, Lori Gottlieb answers questions from readers about their problems, big and small. This week, she advises a reader whose sister won't leave her boyfriend:
He has a temper, he’s a narcissist, and much more … My sister is beautiful, talented, funny, and successful, and she is wasting her time with this deadbeat. I know that she’s going to do what she’s going to do, but I don’t know how to handle it.
→ Read the rest, and Lori’s response. Write to Lori anytime at dear.therapist@theatlantic.com.
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