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Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden for president

Published 2020-04-14 12:00:00 UTC

What we know — and don’t know — about Trump’s task force to reopen the economy

Published 2020-04-14 12:30:00 UTC

The other hospital workers on the front lines of the pandemic

Published 2020-04-14 12:50:00 UTC

Trump’s video of coronavirus actions accidentally reveals how he mishandled things in February

Published 2020-04-14 13:00:00 UTC

Can you still do IVF during the coronavirus pandemic?

Published 2020-04-14 13:20:00 UTC

How images of the coronavirus are made

Published 2020-04-14 13:40:00 UTC

Poll: Most Americans won’t immediately venture out when social distancing ends

Published 2020-04-14 13:50:00 UTC

States vs. Trump on economic reopening, France extends lockdown: Tuesday’s coronavirus news

Published 2020-04-14 13:50:00 UTC

How to get your stimulus check, and other key questions, answered

Published 2020-04-14 14:20:00 UTC

The 4 plans to end social distancing, explained

Published 2020-04-14 16:00:00 UTC

Amazon fired 3 employee activists who criticized the company’s warehouse safety measures

Published 2020-04-14 16:30:00 UTC

New York City secures its own supply of 100,000 coronavirus tests per week

Published 2020-04-14 16:50:00 UTC

Google’s former CEO hopes the coronavirus makes people more “grateful” for Big Tech

Published 2020-04-14 17:50:00 UTC

How President Emmanuel Macron bungled France’s coronavirus response

Published 2020-04-14 18:30:00 UTC

How to do end-of-life planning during the coronavirus pandemic

Published 2020-04-15 07:40:00 UTC

The coronavirus is changing how America drinks

Published 2020-04-15 07:50:00 UTC

Exclusive: Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith have a plan to fix the pandemic child care crisis

Published 2020-04-15 08:00:00 UTC

Pandemics are not wars

Published 2020-04-15 08:10:00 UTC

“Deaths of despair”: The deadly epidemic that predated coronavirus

Published 2020-04-15 08:50:00 UTC

The 10th Amendment, explained for Trump

Published 2020-04-15 08:40:00 UTC

Why the national stockpile wasn’t prepared for this pandemic

Published 2020-04-15 09:30:00 UTC

Joe Biden racks up another big endorsement: Elizabeth Warren

Published 2020-04-15 09:40:00 UTC

March’s record-breaking collapse in retail sales, explained

Published 2020-04-15 10:50:00 UTC

What Trump’s bizarre love of Mutiny on the Bounty actually reveals about him

Published 2020-04-15 11:00:00 UTC

Florida Gov. DeSantis declared WWE an “essential service.” His explanation doesn’t make much sense.

Published 2020-04-15 11:20:00 UTC

The PPE shortage in America is a crisis — here’s a realistic plan to solve it

Published 2020-04-15 11:40:00 UTC

The coronavirus likely came from China’s wet markets. They’re reopening anyway.

Published 2020-04-15 11:40:00 UTC

Hungary’s “coronavirus coup,” explained

Published 2020-04-15 11:50:00 UTC

A preliminary Trump administration plan shows how far America is from reopening

Published 2020-04-15 12:35:00 UTC

I want to donate plasma for an experimental Covid-19 treatment. Because of homophobia, I can’t.

Published 2020-04-15 12:30:00 UTC

Why millions of college students and young adults won’t get a stimulus check

Published 2020-04-15 12:40:00 UTC

Data shows social distancing has slowed down the coronavirus outbreak. But what’s next?

Published 2020-04-15 12:50:00 UTC

Trump announces halt to WHO funding, NYC revises death toll: Wednesday’s coronavirus news

Published 2020-04-15 13:30:00 UTC

Trump wants his name on millions of stimulus checks, even if it delays them

Published 2020-04-15 13:40:00 UTC

Kentucky just made it harder to vote during a pandemic

Published 2020-04-15 13:50:00 UTC

America’s embarrassingly mediocre coronavirus testing, in 2 charts

Published 2020-04-15 14:10:00 UTC

Survey: 80 percent of Americans said they saw fake coronavirus news in the early days of the pandemic

Published 2020-04-15 18:00:00 UTC

The WHO isn’t to blame for Trump’s disastrous coronavirus response

Published 2020-04-15 18:20:00 UTC

The Chris Murphy Doctrine

Published 2020-04-16 06:00:00 UTC

Coronavirus is causing a mental health crisis. Here’s how to fight it.

Published 2020-04-16 07:00:00 UTC

“Take this day by day”: Advice from 5 people around the world in isolation

Published 2020-04-16 07:30:00 UTC

Exclusive: Amy Klobuchar’s plan to ensure rural areas aren’t devastated by coronavirus

Published 2020-04-16 08:10:00 UTC

If the US Postal Service fails, rural America will suffer the most

Published 2020-04-16 08:20:00 UTC

The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t stopped the war in Afghanistan

Published 2020-04-16 08:30:00 UTC

Clean energy could get screwed in the Covid-19 crisis

Published 2020-04-16 09:00:00 UTC

New unemployment filings are so high only the Great Depression compares

Published 2020-04-16 09:40:00 UTC

13 ways of looking at a Zoom background

Published 2020-04-16 09:30:00 UTC

Saturday Night Live stayed home last weekend. The show was more exciting than it’s been in years.

Published 2020-04-16 10:00:00 UTC

The US has a national service for predicting the weather. It needs one for predicting disease.

Published 2020-04-16 10:40:00 UTC

Ask a Book Critic: what to read when your attention span is shattered

Published 2020-04-16 11:00:00 UTC

The homemade masks of coronavirus

Published 2020-04-16 11:54:00 UTC

Child care has become scarce — just when front-line medical workers need it the most

Published 2020-04-16 11:50:00 UTC

Amazon is teasing a new health care offering — for its sellers

Published 2020-04-16 12:45:49 UTC

States and cities are “falling off a cliff” as the economic crisis sets in

Published 2020-04-16 13:00:00 UTC

Trump’s threat to adjourn Congress and make recess appointments, explained

Published 2020-04-16 13:10:00 UTC

12 experts on how the US should hold China accountable for the coronavirus

Published 2020-04-16 13:20:00 UTC

22 million jobless claims, masks mandated in New York: Thursday’s coronavirus news

Published 2020-04-16 14:05:00 UTC

No country has beaten the coronavirus yet

Published 2020-04-16 14:00:00 UTC

The coronavirus fight demands unity. But Republicans just want to own the libs.

Published 2020-04-16 14:10:00 UTC

The Paycheck Protection Program has already run out of money

Published 2020-04-16 14:20:00 UTC

Thousands of Michiganders took to the streets to protest the governor’s stay-at-home order

Published 2020-04-16 14:30:00 UTC

Apple and Google look like problematic heroes in the pandemic

Published 2020-04-16 15:10:00 UTC

Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history”

Published 2020-04-16 15:50:00 UTC

The Innocence Files explores wrongful convictions. It’s the best kind of true crime.

Published 2020-04-16 16:30:00 UTC

Poll: Americans are afraid of ending the coronavirus lockdowns too soon

Published 2020-04-16 16:50:00 UTC

How Fox News is playing fast and loose with American lives, illustrated by one Dr. Oz clip

Published 2020-04-16 17:20:00 UTC

Facebook will start nudging users who have “liked” coronavirus hoaxes

Published 2020-04-16 18:50:00 UTC

Trump just declared victory over the coronavirus. Here’s why that’s premature.

Published 2020-04-16 20:05:29 UTC

I voted in South Korea’s elections. This is what democracy should look like in a pandemic.

Published 2020-04-17 07:30:00 UTC

The scramble to feed the kids left hungry by the coronavirus crisis

Published 2020-04-17 08:00:00 UTC

Selah and the Spades is a high school movie crossed with a mob drama, inspired by Rihanna

Published 2020-04-17 08:10:00 UTC

A Texas court battle could decide if millions are disenfranchised during the pandemic

Published 2020-04-17 08:20:00 UTC

The pandemic has exposed America’s clean water crisis

Published 2020-04-17 08:30:00 UTC

We’re not overreacting to the coronavirus

Published 2020-04-17 09:00:00 UTC

How the coronavirus might upend the November election

Published 2020-04-17 09:10:00 UTC

Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win

Published 2020-04-17 09:30:00 UTC

Coronavirus scammers are flooding social media with fake cures and tests

Published 2020-04-17 10:05:00 UTC

I tried to write an essay about productivity in quarantine. It took me a month to do it.

Published 2020-04-17 10:00:00 UTC

Trump’s plan to reopen America can’t work without a massive surge in testing

Published 2020-04-17 11:30:00 UTC

The 8 best movies you can now watch at home

Published 2020-04-17 11:40:00 UTC

6 things the Federal Reserve can still do to fight the recession

Published 2020-04-17 12:00:00 UTC

Trump’s dangerous “LIBERATE” tweets represent the views of a small minority

Published 2020-04-17 13:10:00 UTC

Trump’s plan to open America, China’s new Wuhan death toll: Friday’s coronavirus news

Published 2020-04-17 13:50:00 UTC

San Diego Comic-Con is canceled for the first time in its 50-year history

Published 2020-04-17 15:10:00 UTC

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