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Close contact, confined spaces, crowds, choices — these are the considerations to ponder now. Continue reading How to Navigate Your Community Reopening? Remember the Four C’s

The killing of a 14-year-old girl in Iran has shaken the country and forced an examination of its failure to protect women and children. Continue reading A Daughter Is Beheaded, and Iran Asks if Women Have a Right to Safety

As Berlin emerges from its lockdown, residents are getting used to social distancing in bars and swimming pools — and to handing out their phone number several times a day to help in contact tracing. Continue reading Giving Your Number to Strangers? It’s Not Flirting; It’s a Rule

Researchers are developing models for more targeted closings (and reopenings) that would curb the spread of infection at a less severe economic cost. Continue reading Coronavirus Shutdowns: Economists Look for Better Answers

Police violence and President Trump’s threats to use the military against protesters have undercut American criticism of autocrats and called into question the country’s moral authority. Continue reading U.S. Diplomats Struggle to Defend Democracy Abroad Amid Crises at Home

The records of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson, among others, beg to differ. Continue reading Trump’s False Claim That ‘Nobody Has Ever Done’ More for the Black Community Than He Has

He was a Princeton-educated corporate lawyer. She provided legal services for the poor. Now they are accused in a Molotov cocktail attack on a police car. Continue reading The 2 Lawyers, the Anti-Police Protests and the Molotov Cocktail Attack

The current civil unrest is deeply connected to the racial disparities exposed by the coronavirus crisis. “I’m just as likely to die from a cop as I am from Covid,” one organizer said. Continue reading ‘Pandemic Within a Pandemic’: Coronavirus and Police Brutality Roil Black Communities