Covid-19 stories:
As the shutdown wears on, the rules around everything from masks to social distancing keep changing. No wonder so many of us are barely keeping it together. (Commentary, ~14 min.)
A devoted son chronicles 31 days at his coronavirus-stricken dad’s virtual bedside. I’m crying ugly tears. (CNN, ~27 min.)
She passed the coronavirus to her mom. She’s certain of it. (Washington Post, ~8 min.)
The pandemic in America is playing out in distinctly American fashion. This scathing two-week snapshot of our collective nightmare would be comical if it weren’t so horrifically true. (London Review of Books, ~25 min.)
We’ve surpassed 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. — and those deaths have a lot to teach us, if we’re willing to learn from them. (ProPublica, ~9 min.)
The best of the rest:
Julio Cortez, Associated Press
On the George Floyd protests, it’s black scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with the smartest perspective in the room. (New York Times, ~7 min.)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar nails it in this op-ed about white people’s reactions to the protests. (Los Angeles Times, ~4 min.)
A worthy, fascinating contribution to the Michael Jordan conversation that takes us back to his roots in Wilmington, N.C. (ESPN, ~57 min.)
A husband and wife were murdered at a Georgia church in 1985, and their killer was handed two life sentences. More than three decades later, a reporter’s dogged investigation has turned up evidence that detectives may have gotten the wrong man. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ~44 min.)
Finally, the thorough investigation into racial justice activist Shaun King’s shady fundraising that I’ve been waiting for. (Daily Beast, ~33 min.)
A rare and revealing profile of Steve Buscemi. (GQ, ~16 min.)
There was overwhelming evidence that Nikki Addimando killed her partner in self-defense. But in a cruel trick of the American justice system, there may have been too much evidence. (GEN, ~51 min.)
Former Philadelphia cop Mike Chitwood wound up sheriff in Daytona, Fla., where he promptly went to work reforming the police force. Here’s what happened next. (Bitter Southerner, ~33 min.)
A perfect tribute to the late Larry Kramer, the original — and indomitable — AIDS activist. (New Yorker, ~11 min.)
Meet Paul Alexander, one of the last polio survivors in the world still using an iron lung. (The Guardian, ~24 min.)
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