The Cruise Ship Suicides
Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.
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Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.
Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2020 20min Permalink
The author’s chance encounter with Tom Hanks leads to a dear and lasting friendship with his assistant.
Ann Patchett Harper's Dec 2020 1h20min Permalink
The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Dec 2020 2h Permalink
The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.
Samantha Michaels Mother Jones Dec 2020 15min Permalink
Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Dec 2020 20min Permalink
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.
Akilah Johnson, Nina Martin ProPublica Dec 2020 30min Permalink
While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?
Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Over three weeks, COVID-19 delivered “cheap shots.” It took hostages. And it left the Malinowski family with with pain, loss and grief.
JENNIFER PIGNOLET Akron Beacon Journal Dec 2020 15min Permalink
He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?
Jane C. Hu Undark Nov 2020 Permalink
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.
Kelly Pendergrast Real Life Aug 2020 15min Permalink
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.
Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 25min Permalink
At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.
James Somers The New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink
The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.
Brendan Borrell The Atlantic Oct 2020 25min Permalink
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.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Oct 2020 25min Permalink
How COVID-19 ravaged Minnesota.
Reid Forgrave Star Tribune Oct 2020 50min Permalink
Nine days in Wuhan.
Peter Hessler New Yorker Oct 2020 30min Permalink
At work and at home, pregnancy alters the COVID experience.
Lauren Quinn Hazlitt Sep 2020 20min Permalink
Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 20min Permalink
A whirlwind tour of Istanbul’s public baths.
Leslie Jamison The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 25min Permalink
Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.
Matthew Remski Gen Sep 2020 25min Permalink
Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Sep 2020 20min Permalink
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.
Samantha M. Shapiro New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 50min Permalink
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.
Beth Shelburne Daily Beast Sep 2020 40min Permalink
In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice
Vicky Mochama The Walrus Sep 2020 15min Permalink
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.
Annie Waldman, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Aug 2020 30min Permalink