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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