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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