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1963 All Over Again

Courtney and Corrie Cockrell, grandnieces of the assassinated civil-rights hero Medgar Evers, consider his legacy through the lens of George Floyd

Burn After Reading

In a baffling twist of fate, a new study reveals that smokers are less likely to get the coronavirus than those who abstain

Nazi Lockdown

The German occupation crushed ordinary life in Paris as its citizens hid from the “brown plague”

Social (Media) Unrest

For twentysomething protesters, passions run high. Not just in the streets but also on Instagram

Bleach Party

For enterprising hoteliers, paranoia is the new sustainability

Sex and the System

In New York and in red-light districts around the world, intimacy just got even more complicated

Living Your Best Lockdown

If practical advice from even Gwyneth Paltrow herself (!) can’t improve your situation … well, you’re on your own

Putin on the Fritz?

Russia’s strongman fights the coronavirus invasion with faked data and in retreat

Don’t Call It a Comeback

Where are they now? Wishing you a happy birthday (or anniversary, etc.) for a fee on Cameo

Why Is No One Talking About Polio?

The disease infected thousands when it tore through the U.S. Sixty-five years later, we’re back to where we were pre-vaccine

School’s Out For … Ever?

With distance learning as the new status quo, the most privileged New York parents are seeking alternative arrangements

From FOMO to FOGO

What happens when social distancing gives way to the return of social commitments?

2016 and All That

A very English take on Donald Trump

Office Affairs

“Work from home” puts an end to Christmas-party high jinks and watercooler romances

How About a Dose of Common Sense?

The anti-vax movement may derail a coronavirus recovery

Mount Everest Goes Red

During a global lockdown, Chinese scientists take over the world’s highest mountain

Down and Out in the Hollywood Hills

Eyebrow-raising behavior is par for the course at the Chateau Marmont. But owner André Balazs’s handling of the lockdown is provoking winces

Doctors Without Choices

Why Russia is fighting the coronavirus like it’s 1943

Unmasked Ball

Cocaine, ketamine, models, and music: New York City’s underground party scene carries on during the pandemic

Mr. Right

With prescient, gloomy pandemic reports, The New York Times’s wonky science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has become an unlikely sex symbol

The Neuro-Degenerate’s Guide to Boxing

Faced with one of life’s great challenges, a writer finds solace in the sweet science

The Covidfefe Chronicles

You can’t spell “pandemic” without “me,” backward

Tress Test

As Paris tiptoes toward reopening, hundreds of its best-coiffed women are still suffering on the waiting list at David Mallett’s salon. Welcome to the new normal…

History Repeats Itself

“We can really understand something of epic tragedy only when it becomes personal”: honoring the end of World War II in the middle of a pandemic