How the Pandemic Will End
“The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.”
The Trump Presidency Is Over
It’s hard to be hopeful right now, but one Republican believes that the coronavirus crisis has already revealed Trump as a person incapable of leadership, and that the American people will demand a person who is.
The Killing of a Colorado Rancher
When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends knew him better than that, and they refused to let him simply disappear.
The Lovely Hill: Where People Live Longer and Happier
Seventh-Day Adventists’ dietary philosophy has made Loma Linda, California one of the healthiest cities in the world, and it has a lot to teach the rest of the country.
You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
You might not know you have it, though.
History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About To Begin
“Life could appear in perfect darkness, in blistering heat and a broth of noxious compounds — an environment that would extinguish every known creature on Earth.” Life has been discovered at the deepest depths of the ocean, but is it under threat from mining?
How Roadkill Became an Environmental Disaster
The vast network of roads carved into Brazil’s sensitive ecosystems improve citizens’ quality of life, but it threatens countless species and the country’s biodiversity, few more than the giant anteater. As scientists develop the growing field of road ecology and grapple with ways to protect biodiversity, they face the larger problem: How can humans protect anything when we keep building new roads?
My Friend Mister Rogers
Tom Junod remembers his friendship with Fred Rogers 16 years after Fred’s death and considers how Fred would have responded in today’s world, filled with regular mass violence and a growing lack of civility in political discourse and protest.
Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore
From algorithms that set work schedules to the whims of the gig economy, too many workers are deprived of free time that overlaps with friends’ and family’s, and America’s social fabric is fraying. “A calendar is more than the organization of days and months,” Judith Shulevitz writes. “It’s the blueprint for a shared life.”
The End of Silence
Noise is never just about sound; it is inseparable from issues of power and powerlessness. It is a violation we can’t control and to which, because of our anatomy, we cannot close ourselves off. “We have all thought of killing our neighbors at some point,” a soft-spoken scientist researching noise abatement told me.
