By the time you finish reading this, at the rate we’re at right now, about 10 people in the United States will have died of Covid-19. To date, over 14.7 million have tested positive for the coronavirus. You can now add me, my husband and our three children to that […]
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Interior Department Trump Propaganda Video May Have Broken Law
Tourists view the Morning Glory hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP (Getty Images) The Trump administration continues to stretch the limits of decency and legality as it tries to turn the government into a propaganda arm of President Donald Trump’s reelection […]
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To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
As we head into the most consequential, contentious election in our history, it’s time to fix some of the structural problems that led us to this moment. Let’s face it: Our digital public sphere has been failing for some time. Technologies designed to connect us have instead inflamed our arguments […]
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When You’re Retired and Stuck at Home, a Broken Washer Qualifies as a Crisis
Our columnist’s washing machine is no longer making a strange noise. This isn’t his washing machine. Chernetskaya/Dreamstime Text size We had our first household crisis as the coronavirus pandemic shut down the country in March. Sickness? Nope. Job loss? Nope. We’ve been lucky on the big stuff. “The washing machine […]