Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.

The author’s chance encounter with Tom Hanks leads to a dear and lasting friendship with his assistant.

The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.

The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

Over three weeks, COVID-19 delivered “cheap shots.” It took hostages. And it left the Malinowski family with with pain, loss and grief.

He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?

No house is private. It may be purchased, and thus legally private property, but it doesn’t stand alone. Through its extending wires, pipes, inputs and outputs, the house (with few off-grid exceptions) is tied up in the cyborg systems of the city and the supply chains and logistical inputs that extend around the globe.

As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.

At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.

The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.

Life, loss, fear, and hope in one Denver homeless encampment as the novel coronavirus upended services for some of the city’s most vulnerable citizens.

How COVID-19 ravaged Minnesota.

Nine days in Wuhan.

At work and at home, pregnancy alters the COVID experience.

Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.

A whirlwind tour of Istanbul’s public baths.

Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.

Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.

More than 100,000 city public school students lack permanent housing, caught in bureaucratic limbo that often seems like a trap. This is what their lives are like.

COVID-19 has led many Americans to rethink prison. But a habitual offender law has condemned hundreds of people who never physically hurt anyone to grow old and die behind bars.

In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice

In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying.