This Covid Surge Feels Different

The writer Tom Junod has spent a career crafting profiles for men’s magazines like GQ and Esquire, often of famously complicated men like Norman Mailer, Kevin Spacey and Tony Curtis. But another man loomed behind Junod’s interest in these figures, informing his own sense of mascu ...  Show more

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A new record high number of COVID-19 cases is set with a seven-day average now topping 256,000. So far, hospitalizations and deaths have not seen a similar increase in pace, but there are concerning signs. For example, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Vermont are now showing r ...  Show more

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Medical experts are encouraging Americans to stay home tonight for New Years Eve. Hospitals are slammed and schools aren’t sure how to reopen safely. Will the new year look too much like the last one?  100-mile-per-hour winds are spreading flames across neighborhoods in Colorad ...  Show more