Out of Sight, Out of Mind
“Prison families, researchers, and even TDCJ officials agree that visitation is a critical lifeline for incarcerated people, and integral to their rehabilitation. Research has shown that visits with loved ones can maintain and strengthen social ties that can help prevent criminal behavior during and after incarceration.
‘Talk About First World Problems’: What Would the Pandemic Have Been Like in 2005?
How would he have handled a pandemic? It’s hard to imagine him getting involved in the sort of denialism, laced with conspiracy theory and a dash of anti-Chinese racism, that the Trump administration has fostered.”
Was I Wrong to Fall For a Cheating Cat?
“Every time another new post would go up, a friend would regularly call me out in my comments: “IT’S NOT YOUR CAT.””
The Cruise Ship Suicides
Cruise crew members experienced a “more extreme version of the household lockdowns that have sent people tumbling into depression.”
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
“As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.”
The Factories in the Camps
Forced labor on a vast scale is taking place inside Xinjiang’s detention centers.
The Secret Formula
“Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.”
Has Thomas Becket’s Treasured ‘Little Book’ Been Found?
“There was no jewelled Anglo Saxon silver-gilt binding – this would have been torn off and melted down during the Reformation, but here was a book, de Hamel now felt, that was surely a lost holy relic of the Middle Ages.”
Inside India’s booming dark data economy
“Thanks to lax privacy laws and high consumer demand, details on everything from how you shop to who you date are all for sale.”
A brother’s grief, a father’s joy, and learning to live with both at Christmas.
“For us, and for so many families around the world, this Christmas is different. This is the first Christmas without Bethany, and the first with Luke. Our son was born six days after my little sister died as she slept in her dorm room. She had COVID-19. She was 20.”
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