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
Putin on the Fritz? Russia’s strongman fights the coronavirus invasion with faked data and in retreat
Living Your Best Lockdown If practical advice from even Gwyneth Paltrow herself (!) can’t improve your situation … well, you’re on your own
Don’t Call It a Comeback Where are they now? Wishing you a happy birthday (or anniversary, etc.) for a fee on Cameo
Sex and the System In New York and in red-light districts around the world, intimacy just got even more complicated
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
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
June 10, 2020
The New King of All Media Scott Galloway, one half of the must-listen podcast Pivot, is everywhere these days, railing against big tech and spreading big ideas
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
Not Their First Rodeo Houston’s black cowboys and cowgirls ride for Black Lives Matter, and champion their unheralded legacy
FOSO: Fear of Standing Out Online, the only thing worse than not showing solidarity with an important cause is showing it in the wrong way
Fawlt Lines The newest wave of political correctness infects the BBC—and takes away from the Black Lives Matter movement’s urgent cause
June 15, 2020
Watch Your Step A Harvard medical professor gets to the root of the 10,000-steps-per-day fad, and it has nothing to do with science
June 17, 2020
Hamptons Behaving Badly In this installment: The Tale of the Sag Harbor Squatter
Back to School A nation of strivers under lockdown meets the à la carte subscription academy MasterClass
Dutch Courage At a protest in Amsterdam, flashbacks to a childhood shaped by the civil-rights movement
Help Is Here? In pandemic times, the most privileged New Yorkers find that dealing with domestic staff is especially fraught
Anatomy of a Catastrophe Why we need a coronavirus commission, and who should—and shouldn’t—lead it
Capital Offenses The latest battleground in the push for racial justice? The copydesk
