This week, we’re sharing stories from Breai Mason-Campbell, Simon J. Levien, Paola CapĂł-GarcĂa, Emma Gilchrist, and Liam Boylan-Pett.
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The Alarmist: Is One of the Pandemic’s Loudest Scientific Voices Helping or Hurting Public Health?
Meet Eric Feigl-Ding, the town crier of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her Greatest Hits
“Maybe it’s only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover.”
By All Measures
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
Letter from Manhattan 2

On trying to be a “world citizen”—and how expat life rarely delivers on its promises.
Around The Pit
Circling billions of gallons of toxic water at America’s largest Superfund site.
‘Raphael Couldn’t Have Painted Something More Beautiful’
The couple who saved an imprisoned artist’s life — and the extraordinary gift he gave in return.
The Sabbath Stew
What started as a loophole has remained one of Judaism’s most evocative, redolent foods.
Analyzing the ‘Bimbo’: A Reading List on Hollywood Blondes
The source of glamour, sex, and transgression? Or a carefully crafted persona? A closer look at the Hollywood blonde.
Self Portrait as a Human Interest Story
Reflecting on the adversities and victories of her youth, Emi Nietfeld interrogates how narratives of resilience minimize suffering.

