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A Mental-Health Crisis Is Burning Across the American West
Each fire season can compound the trauma of the one before it.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Looking at these photos, I can't help but think of the people in this story by @jdkstern13
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The Wikipedia War Over Kamala Harris’s Race
An editing battle got ugly this week—and it’s a sign of what’s to come.
The Good Son
Polished, soft-spoken, and a self-styled moderate, Jared Kushner has become his father-in-law’s most dangerous enabler.
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Adrienne LaFrance
This is a story about propulsive ambition, boundless self-abasement, and filial devotion. It’s also a masterclass in corruption. Just-published @FranklinFoer on Jared Kushner
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A Guide to Exploring Faith as an Adult
When we think of our identities as fixed and unchanging—I am this kind of person; I am not that kind of person—we’re shutting ourselves off from many of life’s possibilities.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"When we think of our identities as fixed and unchanging, we’re shutting ourselves off from many of life’s possibilities." The latest installment of How to Build a Life, by @arthurbrooks
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Paging Dr. Hamblin: Everyone Wants to Check My Temperature
If fever screens give us a false sense of security, they might be doing more harm than good.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Paging @jameshamblin! It's "sort of like spraying down the sides of buildings, showering football players in hand sanitizer, or deep cleaning an office carpet... [but] the spirit of mass temperature checks, as they’re currently being used, is punitive."
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I Run a Tutoring Company. I Get Dozens of Calls a Day About Learning Pods.
This is what the scramble to teach from home looks like.
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Adrienne LaFrance
No wonder parents are losing it. They’re “trying to reinvent what effective education might look like under conditions unlike any in the past century. And then to implement it immediately.” Read @bplatzer
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Kamala Harris and the Veep in the Age of 'Veep'
Her candidacy meets a culture that, too often, still doesn’t know what to make of women who seek to lead.
Forest Fires Are Setting Chernobyl’s Radiation Free
Trees now cover most of the exclusion zone, and climate change is making them more likely to burn.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"By sucking up the nuclear leftovers strewn across the landscape, the forests are stabilizing the contamination." Until fire season starts, that is...
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The ‘Blue Shift’ Will Decide the Election
Something fundamental has changed about the ways Americans vote.
How to Beat Populists When the Facts Don’t Matter
The electorate is split into separate information bubbles. But unconventional messengers, appeals to patriotism, and even jokes can reach voters who don’t want to listen.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“How is it possible to reach people who can’t hear you? This is not merely a question of how to convince people, how to use a better argument, or how to change minds. This is a question about how to get people to listen at all.”
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Ellen’s Celebrity Defenders Aren’t Helping Her
The comedian’s employees say that fame has enabled callousness and abuse on her show. The warm testimonies of her superstar friends highlight their point.
Taking My Children to See Frederick Douglass
How a visit to his birthplace helped me understand this moment of rage, reckoning, and possibility
Dear Diary: This Is My Life in Quarantine
Sensing that they’re living through a historic moment, many people are journaling to create a keepsake of life during the pandemic.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"Several museums are already collecting mementos and artifacts from this year to prepare for future exhibitions on the pandemic and protests." Read @morganhikaru's latest
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Just a Small Shift in Remote Work Could Change Everything
Three predictions for what the future might look like
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Adrienne LaFrance
“The plague is not an inventor. It is a time machine, pulling us forward into a future that was, perhaps, already on its way.” New from @DKThomp
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America’s Prosecutors Know What Bill Barr Did Was Wrong
His actions in U.S. v. Stone strike at the heart of the Aristotelian principle central to the rule of law, that we treat likes alike.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"To understand just how far Barr strayed from the rule of law, it is important to understand how federal sentencing should work—and does work in cases other than those of the president’s friends."
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The Surprising Legacy of ‘Inception,’ 10 Years Later
In 2010, Christopher Nolan released a movie that made him a filmmaking hero. His newest thriller could do the same and revive struggling theaters.
The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Vaccines exist for many viruses. But only one (smallpox) has ever been eradicated. It took 15 years of obsessive global coordination.
“We will probably be living with this virus for the rest of our lives.”
Brilliant, sobering, must-read @sarahzhang
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How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
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Adrienne LaFrance
How did it come to this? Read @edyong209’s just-published cover story. Revelatory work. This is one we’re going to be talking about for a long time.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Since March, we've made vital coverage of the pandemic available to all readers, even without a subscription. This extraordinary new @edyong209 cover story is part of that free collection.
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‘This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail’
It is time to stop pretending. Our children are staying home.
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Adrienne LaFrance
I spent the past several weeks talking to scientists, teachers, and doctors about school reopening plans—but in the last week it was like a switch flipped. It's time to stop pretending about school this fall.
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Where the System May Break
A war-game exercise simulating the 2020 election unmasked some key vulnerabilities.
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Adrienne LaFrance
President Trump can't delay the election by himself. But there's plenty he could do on the way out, whenever that may be. @davidfrum took part in a war-game exercise with dozens of former elected officials, imagining how (very, very) bad it could be.
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