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Clean in a time of coronavirus
“I don’t know how people come up with these political books that they seem to push through really quickly,” James Hamblin, a doctor and writer for The Atlantic, said the other day. In January, Hamblin put the finishing touches on his new book—Clean: The New Science of Skin, about the skin microbiome and the cleanliness-obsession...
Transnationally Asian
The wisdom of the anglophone commentariat at what they called the “start” of the coronavirus—which is to say, when it hit Europe and the United States—was that the pandemic would make the world nastier; “more fragmentary” and brutish. They were sure that globalization was soon to give way to sour isolationism. They predicted that every...
Will changes to print outlast the pandemic?
Print editions have taken significant hits at newspapers and magazines across the world as financial setbacks caused by covid-19 rip through newsrooms. As part of the Journalism Crisis Project, the Tow Center continues to tabulate an increasingly grim number of cutbacks in the field; reduced, suspended, or aborted print runs make up a notable portion...
Nexstar Nation
The must-watch TV of the moment is local news. As the spread of the coronavirus and fervent anti-racism demonstrations play out differently in cities, counties, and states across the country, Americans are relying on their local stations to broadcast essential information. The unfolding crisis has shown local news outlets to be indispensable—just as it has...
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In November, just before I went to see Jerry Brown at the annual meeting of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, some eleven thousand climate experts signed a statement declaring “clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate...
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