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Fleeting Moments of Clarity in the Senate Hearing on the Coronavirus Response

Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the remarks given at the live-streamed Senate hearing on the U.S. coronavirus response, at which Anthony Fauci and the senators Rand Paul, Chris Murphy, Mitt Romney, and others discussed the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Trump Administration’s Deportation Policy Is Spreading the Coronavirus

Jonathan Blitzer writes about the ways in which U.S. immigration deportations are spreading the coronavirus to Guatemala and other Central American countries.

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The Joys of Korean Baseball and the Risks of Bringing Back Sports

Louisa Thomas on ESPN’s broadcasts of regular-season Korean Baseball Organization games live, in the U.S., amid the broader coronavirus shutdown of sports.

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A Quiet London Celebrates the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of V-E Day

Rebecca Mead writes about the celebrations in London, during lockdown measures due to the coronavirus crisis, for the seventy-fifth anniversary of V-E Day.

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How Chris Hayes Makes Sense of the “World-Historical Cataclysm”

Isaac Chotiner interviews the MSNBC host Chris Hayes about #FireChrisHayes, how the coronavirus has changed the news environment, why Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic-primary race to Joe Biden, and recent upheavals at NBC News.

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We Are Living in the Age of the Black-Panic Defense

Jelani Cobb on the death of the twenty-five-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed while going for a run in Brunswick, Georgia, in February.

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When Will It Be Safe to End Coronavirus Lockdowns?

Isaac Chotiner interviews Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at Columbia University and the lead author of a new study projecting that COVID-19 cases and deaths will rise significantly if more states reopen.

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A Fair Examination of the Allegations Against Joe Biden Can Strengthen the #MeToo Movement

Jeannie Suk Gersen writes about Tara Reade’s sexual-assault allegation against Joe Biden and how this can be an opportunity for more nuance in the #MeToo movement.

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The Medical Students Who Joined the Battle Against the Coronavirus

Eren Orbey writes on fourth-year medical students, at N.Y.U. and elsewhere, who graduated early to work in overwhelmed hospitals combatting the coronavirus pandemic.

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Joe Biden, Tara Reade, and the Democrats’ Unasked-for Dilemma

Margaret Talbot writes about Tara Reade’s allegation that the Presidential front-runner Joe Biden sexually assaulted her, and the response that the Democratic Party should have.

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The End of the Beginning: Seattle Braces for the Next Phase of the Coronavirus Fight

James Ross Gardner writes about the apparent success that Seattle has experienced with stemming the spread of the coronavirus through social distancing and the dire need to hold steady or risk allowing the virus to regain momentum.

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Paul Romer on How to Survive the Chaos of the Coronavirus

Isaac Chotiner interviews Paul Romer, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, about why Americans may be resistant to digital contact tracing and the need for states to administer coronavirus tests.

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Will the Coronavirus Create a More Progressive Society or a More Dystopian One?

The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic shutdown have underscored the need for a stronger social safety net, but there is a danger that the crisis could benefit the big and powerful, accentuate inequality, and boost populist extremism, John Cassidy writes.

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History According to Trump: The President and the 1917 Pandemic That Wasn’t

Susan B. Glasser writes about President Donald Trump mischaracterizing the 1918 flu pandemic as having occurred in 1917, and what his inability or unwillingness to make a correction says about his character.

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The False Positives, False Negatives, and Positive Negatives of the Coronavirus

Geoff Dyer writes about living under the shadow of the coronavirus and what it’s like to have a loved one fall sick and test negative for COVID-19.

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Remote, Forbidding, and Infected: The Coronavirus Is Spreading in the Russian Arctic

Joshua Yaffa writes about the surge of coronavirus cases at work sites in northern Russia, and how Vladimir Putin is doing little to insure economic security for the Russian people.

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Ohio Primary Election 2020: Live Results, Maps, and Analysis

The latest election results from the Ohio primary ahead of the 2020 Presidential election.

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Chris Ware’s “Still Life”

The artist Chris Ware talks about the inspiration behind his cover for the May 4, 2020, issue of The New Yorker.

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Did John Bolton Outfox Himself on His Own Tell-All Book?

Jeffrey Toobin writes about the former national-security adviser John Bolton and his forthcoming tell-all book, whose release is delayed as the White House forces Bolton to comply with the terms of a prepublication-review agreement.

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Donald Trump’s Debt to China

John Cassidy writes about Donald Trump’s thirty-per-cent stake in 1290 Avenue of the Americas, a New York office building to which the state-owned Bank of China provided more than two hundred million dollars in loans.

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Mapping the Sidewalks of New York City for Social Distancing

Colin Moynihan on Sidewalk Widths NYC, a map which allows users to see which intersections in the city’s five boroughs are wide enough for pedestrians to stay six feet apart.

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Finding Real Life in Teaching Law Online

Jeannie Suk Gersen writes about how teaching constitutional law online during the coronavirus pandemic has narrowed the distance between her and her students, while also exposing inequities.

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Jeffrey Sachs on the Catastrophic American Response to the Coronavirus

Isaac Chotiner talks with the economist Jeffrey Sachs about the disastrous U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump’s narcissism, and how rich countries should be helping poor countries in this time of crisis.

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Fringe Protests Can’t Distract from Trump’s Coronavirus Failures

John Cassidy writes about recent demonstrations by Trump supporters against social-distancing and shutdown measures due to the coronavirus, and how the majority of Americans support the restrictions and are helping to limit the spread of the virus.

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Who’s in Charge of the Response to the Coronavirus?

Jeannie Suk Gersen on Donald Trump’s executive powers and whether federal orders to both lock down against the spread of the coronavirus are constitutional.

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What Viral Evolution Can Teach Us About the Coronavirus Pandemic

Katherine S. Xue writes about the evolutionary tree of the new coronavirus and the efforts to track it in order to mitigate its spread during the pandemic.

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Gordon Brown’s Case for Global Coöperation During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Isaac Chotiner speaks with Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, about the need for international coördination in fighting the coronavirus, the future of center-left politics, and the rise of demagoguery.

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Trump’s Pandemic Plan: “Absolute Authority,” No Responsibility

Susan B. Glasser writes about President Donald Trump’s proclamation of authority and abdication of responsibility in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the United States’ subsequent economic collapse.

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How We Can Build a Hardier World After the Coronavirus

Bill McKibben writes about building civilization back in a hardier form after the coronavirus pandemic, discusses the actions of Donald Trump and judges, and presents the work and words of Mary Annaïse Heglar, Denis Hayes, Judy Twedt, and others.

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Instead of Challenging Joe Biden, Maybe the Green Party Could Help Change Our Democracy

Bill McKibben writes on ranked-choice voting as an electoral reform and how it might broaden the field for third-party candidates; on the role of the Green Party in the Presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden; and on the debate over Jill Stein’s and Ralph Nader’s role in elections past.

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Chaplains and Spiritual Care in Hospitals During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Elizabeth Barber on the plight of hospital chaplains, like Kaytlin Butler, who, during the coronavirus pandemic, must try to comfort patients without being allowed into their rooms.

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Owen Smith’s “After the Shift”

Françoise Mouly talks to the artist Owen Smith about his New Yorker cover “After the Shift,” which depicts a medical worker during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Intimate Laughs of Instagram Live Standup Comedy

Lizzie Feidelson writes about “Tip Your Waitstaff,” the recurring joke-running sessions hosted by the comedian Mike Birbiglia on Instagram Live, where he and a guest comic bounce new material off each other in real time.

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What Does the Life of the Mind Do In a Crisis?

Agnes Callard writes about the role of the humanities and of academics during the coronavirus pandemics, and draws on the writings of the philosopher and Holocaust survivor Jean Améry.

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The Coronavirus and How the U.S. Ended Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags

Susan B. Glasser on how Donald Trump and Jared Kushner have prevented the federal government from acting to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control, and how hospitals in New York City and other hot spots have suffered the consequences.

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Preparing Prisons for Passover in a Plague Year

Kenneth R. Rosen writes about Menachem Katz, an Orthodox rabbi who distributes kosher meals to prisoners and U.S. military personnel, and his efforts to continue his work during the coronavirus pandemic.

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An Imam Leads His Congregation Through the Coronavirus Pandemic

Eliza Griswold reports on a mosque in Philadelphia as it weighs its options for supporting its religious community during the coronavirus pandemic.

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New York City’s Empty Streets

Rachel Riederer writes about a video depicting New York City’s public spaces as eerily deserted, as people avoid going out owing to the coronavirus pandemic.

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How Doctors on the Front Lines Are Confronting the Uncertainties of COVID-19

Robert P. Baird interviews doctors who are working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

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What Italians Have Learned from the Coronavirus

Marco Malvaldi writes about life under quarantine in Tuscany, Italy, and how the coronavirus pandemic has changed Italians’ habits of mind (and increased the author’s weight).

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What the Coronavirus Is Doing to Rural Georgia

Charles Bethea reports on the early spread of the coronavirus in rural Georgia and the strains it put on medical centers like Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.

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The Coronavirus Is the World’s Only Superpower

Susan Glasser writes about the Trump Administration’s systemic unpreparedness for confronting the coronavirus pandemic, including in the myriad vacancies of senior Cabinet and executive-department positions.

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“Working Together Is What Humans Are Built to Do”: Social Trust Is Key to Stemming the Coronavirus Crisis

Bill McKibben writes about why building social trust is key to solving the coronavirus crisis, and interviews Thea Sebastian about the movement to get Harvard to divest from fossil fuels.

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The Life and Death of Juan Sanabria, One of New York City’s First Coronavirus Victims

Jonathan Blitzer writes on the life and death of Juan Sanabria, one of New York City’s first coronavirus victims, who worked as a doorman in the Bronx.

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The Doubled Fears of the Undocumented During the Coronavirus Shutdown

Charles Bethea on how the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic shutdown are affecting undocumented immigrants, many of whom say they are afraid to seek medical help because of their immigration status.

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The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration

Isaac Chotiner interviews Richard A. Epstein, a professor at N.Y.U. School of Law and the author of two articles published on the Hoover Institution Web site that dispute proposed modelling of the coronavirus pandemic and its W.H.O. designation.

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Todd Haynes’s Masterpiece “Safe” Is Now a Tale of Two Plagues

David Roth writes about the film “Safe,” directed by Todd Haynes, and its relevance to both the coronavirus and the AIDS pandemics.

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What Do the Names of British Houses Mean?

Sam Knight writes about the linguist Laura Wright’s study of the British tradition of naming houses.

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From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus

Carolyn Kormann writes about the evolution of the novel coronavirus, and on the lifespans and adaptations of its relatives, the SARS and MERS viruses and the common cold.

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The Coronavirus, Climate Change, and the Nature of Crisis

In his Climate Crisis newsletter, Bill McKibben offers lessons from the coronavirus on the climate movement, discusses an A.A.R.P. petition, and speaks with the photographer Virginia Hanusik.

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A Historian’s View of the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Influenza of 1918

David Remnick speaks to the historian John M. Barry, the author of “The Great Influenza,” about parallels between the Spanish-flu outbreak of 1918 and the current coronavirus crisis.

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COVID-19 Is a Threat to the 2020 Games. The I.O.C. Is a Threat to the Olympic Project

Louisa Thomas writes about the likelihood that the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, will be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, and discusses the I.O.C.’s apparent willingness to consider putting profits before athletes’ health.

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Giving Up Carbon for Lent

Eliza Griswold writes about a growing trend among Christians who observe Lent by limiting their carbon footprint or other consumption in service of the Earth, rather than themselves.

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My Mother Is Under Quarantine, but We’re Still Staying Close

Ed Caesar on the U.K.’s guidelines for the elderly to practice social shielding amid the coronavirus pandemic, and how people are coping with the isolation on Mother’s Day in the U.K.

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“Normal Is Not in Our Game Plan”: Seattle’s Fight to Survive the Spread of the Coronavirus

James Ross Gardner writes about the measures that Washington State has taken to limit the spread of the coronavirus and the resulting economic impacts in Seattle, particularly in the city’s hospitality industry.

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The Fever Room: Epidemics and Social Distancing in “Bleak House” and “Jane Eyre”

Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the lessons that Charles Dickens’s “The Bleak House” and Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” may impart on modern readers living through self-quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Coronavirus’s Impact on Manhattan’s Chinatown

In this video, Jiayang Fan visits her favorite Manhattan Chinatown restaurants to see how they were faring in the days before all New York City restaurants were ordered to offer take-out or delivery only.

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Will the Coronavirus Change the Way China’s Millennials See Their Country?

Jiayang Fan writes about the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the millennial generation in China, how it has changed the way they see themselves relative to the nation, and on Xi Jinping’s system of censorship.

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The Coronavirus Calls for Wartime Economic Thinking

John Cassidy writes about the catastrophic effects of the coronavirus on the U.S. economy and the need for massive stimulus packages on the level of wartime spending.

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Christoph Niemann’s “Critical Mass”

Françoise Mouly interviews the artist Christoph Niemann about “Critical Mass,” his illustration for the March 23, 2020, issue of The New Yorker.

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How Epidemiologists Understand the Novel Coronavirus

Isaac Chotiner talks with the epidemiologist Justin Lessler about the ways in which our understanding of the coronavirus pandemic has improved, what we can learn from different governments’ responses, and why older adults seem to be more at risk of serious illness.

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How Prisons and Jails Can Respond to the Coronavirus

Jennifer Gonnerman interviews the epidemiologist Homer Venters about the challenges of trying to control the spread of a pandemic among dense populations of incarcerated people.

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A Week in Seattle, the Epicenter of America’s Coronavirus Crisis

James Ross Gardner writes about the life changes faced by the residents of the Seattle, Washington, metropolitan area as it faces the first U.S. wave of the coronavirus outbreak that has reached worldwide pandemic proportions.

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Vladimir Putin Positions Himself to Become Russia’s Eternal Leader

Joshua Yaffa writes about Vladimir Putin’s attempt to extend his Presidency in Russia until 2036—lengthening his reign to thirty-six years—via a proposed amendment to Russia’s constitution.

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Last Stop, Joe Biden

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about Joe Biden’s emergence as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for the 2020 Presidential election against Donald Trump, after Biden pulls ahead of Bernie Sanders with victories in Michigan and other states.

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Wall Street Plunges as Trump Fiddles in Response to the Coronavirus

John Cassidy writes about how the drop in the stock market on Monday is connected to the coronavirus outbreak, oil pricing, and Donald Trump’s failure to respond proactively to either problem.

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Trump in the Time of the Coronavirus

David Remnick writes on Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus, the role of Mike Pence, and the reactions of epidemiologists and public-health officials to the President’s statements.

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The Rage and Sorrow of the Warren Supporter

Lizzie Widdicombe writes about voters and volunteers who are disappointed and frustrated by the end of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for the Presidency and about the position of women in politics.

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The Innocuous and Familiar Story of Bernie Sanders’s Trip to Russia

Masha Gessen on a New York Times’ story about Bernie Sanders’s 1988 attempt to forge a sister-city relationship between Burlington, Vermont, and the Russian city of Yaroslavl.

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Freeman Dyson’s Letters Offer Another Glimpse of Genius

David Kaiser writes about the personal correspondence of the physicist Freeman Dyson, who has died, at the age of ninety-six.

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Super Tuesday Was Mainly About Donald Trump, Not Joe Biden

John Cassidy on how Donald Trump looms over the 2020 Democratic Presidential primary between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, who returned to front-runner status with a strong showing on Super Tuesday.

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Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday Revival

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about Joe Biden’s victories on Super Tuesday, in the Democratic primary, and how his success seems an outsized result after his largely unconvincing campaign.

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Learning to Love Bernie Sanders, or Trying To

Adam Gopnik on how the Democratic front-runner, Bernie Sanders, embodies the revolutionary politics of the New Left of the nineteen-sixties, thrilling young progressives who didn’t live through the Nixon-Reagan-Bush reaction.

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How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders?

Isaac Chotiner interviews the historian Michael Kazin about Bernie Sanders’s rise and the distinctions between socialism and left-wing populism.

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Joe Biden Finds His Voice After a Blowout Victory in South Carolina

John Cassidy on the former Vice-President Joe Biden’s win over Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg in the South Carolina Democratic primary.

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In an Environment of Chronic Economic Uncertainty, Trump Is Only Making It Worse

John Cassidy writes about economic uncertainty in the face of coronavirus’s global spread and the Trump Administration’s counterproductive strategy in the face of that uncertainty.

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Another Israeli Election—and Yet Another Plan to Defeat Benjamin Netanyahu

Bernard Avishai writes about the upcoming Israeli elections, in which the powerbroker Avigdor Lieberman hopes to break the impasse of the past two elections and elevate Benny Gantz to the office of Prime Minister over the incumbent, Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Why Shouldn’t Prisoners Be Voters?

Daniel A. Gross writes about a prisoner weighing his primary options in Maine, which is one of just two states that allow all incarcerated people to vote.

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Bernie Sanders Runs Out the Clock at a Chaotic Democratic Debate

Eric Lach on Bernie Sanders’s lead in the Democratic Presidential primary, and the other candidates’ attempts to compete with him during the debate.

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Ahead of the South Carolina Primary, Donald Trump’s Debate Tips for Democrats

Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Donald Trump’s rally in Las Vegas, his debating advice for Michael Bloomberg, and his comments about Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar.

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Bernie Sanders Scores an Impressive Victory in Nevada

John Cassidy writes about Bernie Sanders’s resounding victory in the Nevada Democratic primary caucuses, which has left the Nevada senator a firm favorite to win the Democratic Presidential nomination.

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The Unhealed Wounds of a Mass Arrest of Black Students at Ole Miss, Fifty Years Later

W. Ralph Eubanks writes about the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Mississippi protests of the school’s use of Confederate imagery and the consequences the black students faced.

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A View of the Revolution in Lebanon from Martyrs’ Square

Nai Zakharia illustrates scenes from the revolution in Lebanon from Martyrs’ Square, the epicenter of the uprising in Beirut.

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Andy Byford’s Last Day with New York’s Transit System

William Finnegan writes about the imminent departure of Andy Byford, the president of the New York City Transit Authority, who was hired by Governor Andrew Cuomo to revitalize the city’s mass-transit system but whose long-term plans appeared to conflict with the governor’s political timetable.

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Elizabeth Warren’s National Groundwork

Peter Slevin writes about Elizabeth Warren’s Presidential campaign, which must now overcome disappointing finishes in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.

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The Political Scientist Hélène Landemore on Open Democracy

Nathan Heller interviews the political scientist and Yale professor Hélène Landemore on her conception of open democracy, which she established in her book “Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many.”

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A Lost Chance to Bring the Green New Deal Home

Bernard Avishai writes about the tax credit for installing residential solar energy and the important impact that it’s had on the economy and the environment.

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The Weinstein Trial and the Myth of the Perfect Victim

Naomi Fry discusses the blurry line between professional life and sexual life that women must negotiate, especially in Hollywood, and the impossible position Harvey Weinstein’s accusers find themselves in on the witness stand in the media mogul’s rape trial.

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Why D.C.’s Mayor Endorsed Michael Bloomberg

Isaac Chotiner interviews Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., about Michael Bloomberg’s record as mayor of New York City, including his stop-and-frisk policy, his comments about redlining, and allegations against him of sexism.

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The New Coronavirus and Preparing for the Next Viral Pandemic

Michael Specter on the coronavirus and how the scientific community can prepare in advance for the next viral epidemic.

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Donald Trump, a President So Unhinged That Even Bill Barr Says He’s Out of Control

Susan B. Glasser on how President Donald Trump’s impeachment-trial acquittal has reinforced his belief that he can do anything he wants, and how Attorney General Bill Barr has even spoken out against his tweets.

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How the Trump Administration Uses the “Hidden Weapons” of Immigration Law

Isaac Chotiner interviews Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, the policy counsel at the American Immigration Council, to talk about President Donald Trump’s increasing success in reshaping American immigration policy, from the travel bans to the crackdown on migrants trying to claim asylum at the Mexican border.

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Bernie Sanders Leads a Jumbled New Hampshire Primary

Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the New Hampshire primary, in which the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders narrowly came out ahead of Pete Buttigieg.

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Joe Biden Struggles in New Hampshire

Rob Fischer writes that Biden, with his strong name recognition and long résumé, had been considered the most likely candidate to emerge from the New Hampshire primary as the presumptive nominee; instead, a third of the state’s likely voters remain undecided.

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A Former Google Executive Calls for a New Emphasis on Human Rights

Isaac Chotiner speaks with Ross LaJeunesse, the former head of international relations at Google, who is running for the U.S. Senate, about changes in Big Tech companies and how the tech sector should approach authoritarian governments.

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The Woman Shaking Up the Diamond Industry Finds Yet Another Huge Gem

Ed Caesar on a five-hundred-and-forty-nine-carat ice-white rough diamond found in Botswana by Eira Thomas’s mining company, Lucara.

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Money Talks in the Democratic Race

Ben Wallace-Wells on the Democratic Presidential contest ahead of the New Hampshire primary and how the power to shape the race increasingly lies with those campaigns with money.

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The Challenge Facing Democrats in the 2020 Election

John Cassidy on how defeating President Trump is going to take a mighty effort from the Democratic Presidential candidates and their supporters.

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Michael Lind on Populism, Racism, and Restoring Democracy

Isaac Chotiner interviews Michael Lind about his new book, “The New Class War,” which pins the destruction of the American middle class on “technocratic neoliberalism” and asks whether bigotry or economic populism better explains Donald Trump’s popularity.

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Buttigieg and Sanders Both Have Reasons To Celebrate the Partial Iowa-Caucus Results

John Cassidy on the partial results of the Democratic Presidential caucuses in Iowa, in which Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders led the field.

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Will Big Business Finally Reckon with the Climate Crisis?

Carolyn Kormann writes about a new report, co-authored by McKinsey consultants and scientists from the Woods Hole Research Center, detailing how physical climate risks will affect socioeconomic systems in the coming decades.

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The End of the Endless Iowa Campaign

Eric Lach considers the state of the race for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, with Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg leading the field.

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“The Two Popes” Gives Way to Pope vs. Pope on the Issue of Celibacy in the Priesthood

Paul Elie writes about the conflict between Pope Benedict and Pope Francis on the issue of celibacy in the priesthood, addressed in a new book, “From the Depths of Our Hearts,” published under the name of both Benedict and Cardinal Robert Sarah.

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“It’s a Worldwide Problem”: How North American and Australian Firefighters Work Together

Ceridwen Dovey writes about the hundreds of North America firefighters who have travelled to Australia to help contain this season’s especially destructive wildfires.

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What Will Brexit Britain Be Like?

Sam Knight writes about Britain’s departure from the European Union and muses about what Brexit Britain will look like.

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Connie Schultz on the Politics of the Primaries

Isaac Chotiner speaks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz about journalism in the Trump era, the Democratic primary, and her husband, Senator Sherrod Brown.

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Watching Amy Klobuchar’s Impassioned Centrism in Iowa

Sarah Larson writes on the Democratic Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar’s campaign stops in Waterloo, Des Moines, and Ames, before the Iowa caucuses.

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A New Backlash to Gun Control Begins in Virginia

Emily Witt writes about a gun-rights rally that took place in Richmond, Virginia, on January 20th, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

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What Happens When the News Is Gone?

Charles Bethea writes on Jones County, North Carolina, where, as in many other places around the country, local journalism has almost entirely dried up.

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Adam Schiff and His Colleagues Did Their Duty in the Trump Impeachment Trial

The Senate Republicans may well vote to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, John Cassidy writes, but they will not be able to erase the record that Adam Schiff and his House colleagues laid down over three days of arguments.

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The Trump Impeachment and the Closing of the Senatorial Mind

Susan Glasser reports on the fourth day of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

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Joe Biden’s Battle with Bernie Sanders for Working-Class Voters

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes on Joe Biden’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for President in Iowa, and on his and Bernie Sanders’s appeals to working-class voters.

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Adam Schiff’s Moment at the Senate Impeachment Trial

Susan Glasser writes about Day 2 of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, during which senators were spotted drinking glasses of milk.

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“Ass-Backwards” and (So Far) Witness-Free, Trump’s Senate Impeachment Trial Begins

Susan B. Glasser reports from Day One of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, as Adam Schiff leads the case against the President.

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How Donald Trump’s Unlikely Legal Team Will Try to Defend Him

Jeffrey Toobin writes about the impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate, and how the President’s defenders, including Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz, will aim to defend him.

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The Attack on Exarchia, an Anarchist Refuge in Athens

Molly Crabapple writes about Exarchia, an anarchist stronghold neighborhood in Athens, Greece, that is under threat, due to the right-wing government, the police, and gentrification.

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On the Trail: What Has This Long Primary Accomplished?

Eric Lach writes from Iowa on the accomplishments of the Democratic Party’s long primary and how the field has dramatically narrowed to four front-runners: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg.

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The Firefighter Whose Denunciation of Australia’s Prime Minister Made Him a Folk Hero

Amanda Schaffer talks to Paul Parker, an Australian firefighter who became a sort of folk hero after a video of him denouncing Prime Minister Scott Morrison went viral.

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Spoiler Alert: There Will Be No Impartial Justice in Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial

Susan B. Glasser on the first day of Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.

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The Uneasy Truce of Trump’s Trade Deal with China

John Cassidy writes about the trade agreement that was signed on January 15th between the United States and China, and to what extent it will change the trade relationship between the two countries.

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At the Democratic Debate, a State of Stasis

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about the first Democratic Presidential debate of 2020, less than three weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses, and the sense of stasis that emerged from it.

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The Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Start Talking About the Supreme Court

Jeffrey Toobin writes about the relative lack of discussion about the Supreme Court and federal judicial appointments among the Democratic candidates for President.

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Ronan Farrow on What the Harvey Weinstein Trial Could Mean for the #MeToo Movement

David Remnick talks with Ronan Farrow about what to expect from Harvey Weinstein’s rape-and-sexual-assault trial in New York City, and from similar charges in Los Angeles.

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How a Journalist in Kyiv Responded to the Downing of a Ukrainian Passenger Plane

Masha Gessen writes about the downing of a Ukraine Airlines Boeing 737 by Iran, and a journalist who is reporting on it.

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Can Ranked-Choice Voting Save American Democracy?

Isaac Chotiner interviews the political scientist Lee Drutman about whether one party is to blame for the current crisis, why ideologically incoherent voting can benefit democracy, and the place of right-wing conservatism in a multiparty system.

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The Cost of Fleeing Climate Change

Carolyn Kormann writes about an illegal adoption racket in northwest Arkansas that offered citizens of the Marshall Islands a way off of the islands, which are increasingly threatened by climate change, and into the U.S.

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One Speech Can’t Clean Up Trump’s Iran Mess

John Cassidy writes about the speech given by President Donald Trump on the missile attack by Iran on American troops in Iraq.

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What Does John Bolton Want?

Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national-security adviser, and his announcement that he would be willing, if subpoenaed, to testify before Congress, as part of the impeachment trial.

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“Jojo Rabbit” Captures the Horror and Absurdity of Our Trumpian Moment

Masha Gessen writes about Taika Waititi’s film “Jojo Rabbit,” about a German boy whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler, which can be read as a portrayal of Donald Trump supporters and parallels our current moment.

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Tabula Rasa: Volume One, by John McPhee

Personal History by John McPhee: A project meant not to end. 

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Representative Elissa Slotkin on Trump’s Iran Policy and the Killing of Qassem Suleimani

Isaac Chotiner interviews Representative Elissa Slotkin, the Domocrat from Michigan who is a former C.I.A. analyst and Defense Department official, about foreign policy, Donald Trump, her time serving in Iraq, and U.S. relations with Iran after the assassination of Qassem Suleimani.

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The Dangers Posed by the Killing of Qassem Suleimani

Dexter Filkins on the killing of the Iranian commander Qassem Suleimani by an American air strike and the implications his death is likely to have for Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.

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How Anti-Semitism Rises on the Left and Right

Isaac Chotiner talks with David Nirenberg, the dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, about why prejudice against Jews arises in so many eras and contexts, and the unhelpfulness of thinking about anti-Semitism as a manifestation of politics.

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The Art of Dying

Personal History by Peter Schjeldahl: I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that?

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Our Year of Trumpschmerz

Susan B. Glasser writes about the suffering induced by constant updates about President Donald Trump, and finds a German compound word to describe it.

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