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The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation
How a torrent of propaganda, lies and conspiracy theories has weaponized the First Amendment.
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Susan Dominus
As usual, @emilybazelon determines one of the most burning questions of our time, and then tries to help us understand it. How do lovers of Democracy reconcile the right to free speech with the toxic spread of misinformation?
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The Quiet 2013 Lunch That Could Have Altered Supreme Court History
President Obama met with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hinting at retirement, but the art of nudging justices off the court is politically delicate and psychologically complicated.
Older Children and the Coronavirus: A New Wrinkle in the Debate
A new report from South Korea throws into question an earlier finding regarding transmission by older children.
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Susan Dominus
In mid-July, a large study out of South Korea seemed to suggest that children over the age of 10 spread coronavirus even more than adults do; this update to the same study clarifies otherwise
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The Covid Drug Wars That Pitted Doctor vs. Doctor
How much freedom should front-line clinicians have in treating Covid-19 patients with unproven drugs? The question opened up a civil war in some hospitals.
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Susan Dominus
If you were in an ICU with Covid, would you want your doctors to try something they thought might help, but for all they knew, could make you worse? Doctors in NY and elsewhere feuded over that very question. Where did that tension leave us? My latest
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Susan Dominus
With many thanks to the doctors and researchers who spoke to me honestly about that trying, traumatic chapter, sharing what they were thinking--and how they think about it now.
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Monster or Machine? A Profile of the Coronavirus at 6 Months
Our “hidden enemy,” in plain sight.
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Susan Dominus
Sometimes you have to step back and look at the big picture in order to see something so microscopic; here's @alanburdick providing that context for Covid-19, six months in
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The Voice of God. (And Knausgaard, Whitman, Machiavelli … )
How Edoardo Ballerini became the audiobook world’s most reliable narrator.
A Week at the Pandemic's Epicenter
Inside the underfunded, overwhelmed public hospitals that are trying to save New York.
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Susan Dominus
These photos from @philip_nyc, taken inside New York's public hospitals for @nytmag, are chilling and moving; @jonathanmahler's accompanying photo essay captures so much about this moment, so beautifully. Don't look away; take it all in.
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How New Jersey’s First Coronavirus Patient Survived
James Cai’s case was completely new to his doctors. When he grew severely ill, he tapped a network of Chinese and Chinese-American medical colleagues who helped save his life.
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Susan Dominus
Also, thank you @SamanthaDesz for your mesmerizing reading of this story about the first patient in NJ to test positive for Covid-19
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Twitter Is Making the Coronavirus World a Better Place
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Mrs. T. passed away on Tuesday.Her full name was Hilary Dyson Teachout, though I never knew her as anything but Mrs. T. She was the wife of Terry Teachout, the Wall Street Journal’s fine drama critic, and I should mention that...
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Susan Dominus
With great sorrow to learn of the loss of Mrs. T; and great gratitude to @joenocera for this lovely column and its sweet take on @marcshaiman's contribution to the cause of cleanliness
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The Daily: Back From the Brink on Apple Podcasts
Show The Daily, Ep Back From the Brink - Mar 30, 2020
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Susan Dominus
Such a privilege to work with The Daily to tell the enlightening, troubling, ultimately hopeful story of the first patient in New Jersey to test positive for COVID-19.
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Did America Misjudge Bernie Sanders? Or Did He Misjudge America?
Throughout his insurgent campaign, he remained steadfast in his radical vision — and forced a reckoning for the Democratic Party.
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Susan Dominus
I gotta admit, not much can distract me from CoronaNews these days. But @robertdraper on Bernie Sanders for the @nytmag--that'll do it, and then some. Must-read, right here
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I’ll Share My Salary if You Share Yours
Forget talking about our sex lives. The modern woman is talking about money.
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Susan Dominus
If you want inspiration on how easy it can be to share salary information, re-read this great, recent @jessicabennett piece that shows you how so many young women are thinking about it
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Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo
Transparency about salaries can make workplaces more equitable, especially for women and people of color. Why are so few Americans willing to open up?
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Susan Dominus
Why is it so excruciating for so many people to talk frankly to a coworker about how much they earn, as if doing so would tear asunder the time-space continuum or at least do some serious relationship damage? My thoughts on that, here
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Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?
The organizational psychologist Adam Grant argues that the key to hyperefficiency is tirelessly helping others.
How ‘West Side Story’ Was Reborn
Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.
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Susan Dominus
Do not miss @sashagila's @nytmag cover on the new West Side Story. Her writing, the stunning photography and the creative video all add up to art about the making of art
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If Democrats move past neoliberalism, what’s next?
A think tank’s new set of papers lays out an emerging progressive view on government and the economy.
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Susan Dominus
What exactly are the major trends in progressive thinking, post-neoliberalism? In naming them, @FeliciaWongRI and @rooseveltinstitute offer great clarity, in a new, sweeping overview, written up here in Vox; do not miss
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Judith Krantz’s Novels Were About More Than Sex and Shopping
Her books sold some 80 million copies, freeing up millions of young women to imagine themselves as ardent sexual protagonists in their own lives.
The Lives They Lived 2019
Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.
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Susan Dominus
I found this year's collection of @nytmag's Lives They Lived especially beautiful--congratulations editor/writer extraordinary @jazzedloon and iconic never-on-twitter genius editor @ilenasilverman
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Congratulations, You’re a Congresswoman. Now What?
Ayanna Pressley and Abigail Spanberger were part of a wave of Democrats who took office this year full of hope. Maintaining it has not been easy.
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Susan Dominus
Two new congresswomen--Ayanna Pressley, of the Squad, and Abigail Spanberger, a moderate--gave me an intimate view of their first harrowing, intense, occasionally comic, year of life on the Hill with Trump.
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Where Summer Never Ends
Returning to the same Maine resort with her family every year, a writer finds that time, at least for a week, can stand still.