Larissa MacFarquhar on a potentially lethal form of medical research. Plus, Jelani Cobb on the killing of Ahmaud Arbery; and a short story about a very boring Memorial Day.

A historian revisits a stay-at-home campaign from the polio years, and three mayors discuss the challenges of ending the lockdown. Plus, Jia Tolentino talks with Perfume Genius.

Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer on clashing with the President while fighting a pandemic. Plus, Edwidge Danticat on how the coronavirus outbreak affects Miami’s Little Haiti.

With prisoners and corrections officers at risk from COVID-19, states are moving to release some inmates. Plus, the pathbreaking rap of Chika, and Mike Birbiglia imagines his death.

April 15th was estimated to be an apex of COVID-19 in New York. New Yorker writers fanned out across the city to document twenty-four hours at the epicenter.

We face two crises of the natural world: a novel virus causing a sudden pandemic, and the ongoing climate emergency. What can one teach us about the other?

David Remnick on a city’s daily ritual; how COVID-19 exacerbates the inequities of the health-care system; and Yiyun Li reads “War and Peace” during quarantine.

Jon Lee Anderson on Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to legalize mining on indigenous lands. And an expert on human behavior discusses why it’s hard to grasp the threat of the coronavirus.

Susan B. Glasser on Trump’s response to the outbreak, and how it may shape the 2020 election. Plus: E.R. doctors confront the crisis, and Jia Tolentino on keeping sane in isolation.