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The pandemic has hit black communities uniquely hard. To understand why, Kai Wright explores how racism shows up in black bodies—all the way down to the cellular level. (article)
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. (episode)
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.
Before “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson fell in love with the ocean. Her early writings about the sea and its creatures contain the seeds of what made her so widely influential. (article)
Two prominent writers on the environment discuss how the coronavirus pandemic relates to climate change. And a scientist hunts for deadly viruses in their natural habitat. (article)
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? (episode)
The two writers discuss how and why the Trump Administration is aggressively deregulating the environment, even during the national emergency of the coronavirus pandemic.
People from around the country describe how being quarantined has affected the way they perceive the outdoors.
Carolyn Kormann interviews Jonathan Epstein, a disease ecologist, about the search for viruses in their natural habitat.
Before “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson fell in love with the ocean. Her early writings about the sea and its creatures contain the seeds of what made her so widely influential.
The writer Yiyun Li says there is no better book for a time of uncertainty and fear than Tolstoy’s epic. And David Remnick talks with baseball’s greatest observer. (article)
David Remnick on New York City’s daily ritual; and how the pandemic lays bare the inequalities of the American health-care system. (article)
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. (episode)
David Remnick on New York City’s daily catharsis: the 7 P.M. mass cheer that celebrates all those who are keeping the city alive at their peril.
The pandemic lays bare the inequalities of the American health-care system, which creates worse outcomes in many different ways for people who are disadvantaged.
The writer Yiyun Li says there is no better book for a time of uncertainty and fear than Tolstoy’s epic of Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.
With the coronavirus pandemic delaying the start of the M.L.B. season, David Remnick revisits a conversation with the game’s greatest observers: the Hall of Fame inductee Roger Angell.
Jon Lee Anderson reports on Jair Bolsonaro’s push to allow commercial mining on protected lands, and the harm it will do to Brazil’s indigenous groups. (article)
A Nobel Prize-winning expert on human behavior discusses why it’s hard to grasp the threat of the coronavirus. And an Instagram Live party attracts hundreds of thousands of attendees. (article)