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On May 27, 2020, the U.S. passed what was then an unthinkable milestone: 100,000 Americans dead from Covid-19. The losses felt at once intangible and deeply personal to me. Twelve days earlier, my youngest brother had died—not from Covid, but from another preventable cause. I hadn’t seen him in months because of the pandemic, and I spent his funeral apart from the rest of my family: no hugs, no tears together, only distance. When the country passed 100,000 deaths, I felt the intense agony of so... Читать дальше...

As Trump’s Big Lie festers among the Republican Party and political norms continue to erode, we at The New Republic are pretty concerned about the future of small “d” democracy, both in the U.S. and abroad. So we’ve started a series we’ve termed Democracy Watch, wherein we will regularly survey experts, writers, and generally interesting thinkers on a specific question about the state of democracy and what keeps them up at night. Read our inaugural edition to learn how worried you should be about the next half-decade. Читать дальше...

Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci foe and Covid skeptic, is a licensed ophthalmologist. An equally bewildering fact: In the universe of 30 Rock, Chris Parnell’s Dr. Leo Spaceman is treated as a real medical authority. See if you can spot which quote comes from which “doctor.”

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How Tucker Carlson Lost It

With the Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade next summer and draconian restrictions like Texas’s Senate Bill 8 proliferating, medication abortion has been framed as a silver bullet for abortion access, from The New York Times to Shout Your Abortion’s recent social media campaign encouraging users to “Help us spread the word: no matter what SCOTUS decides, we can and will use #AbortionPillsForever.” The two-drug regimen of misoprostol and mifepristone can be obtained via mail with an online... Читать дальше...

Irene, a nurse working in a Covid-19 unit outside of Boston, has had a lot of jobs since she was licensed in 1998, and she says she’s seen the nursing shortage in action for decades: When she was in her 20s and working in a hospital in New York City, she’d treat as many as 10 patients a shift. Still, this moment feels different. “I know we’re short staffed,” she said recently, “and I understand people need to get paid.” But she disagrees with the new recommendations that allow for Covid-19 positive nurses to get back on the job more quickly.