David Remnick

John Cassidy and David Remnick discuss mass unemployment. Plus: the pathbreaking rap of Chika, and Mike Birbiglia imagines his ideal death.

The pandemic has hit black communities uniquely hard. To understand why, Kai Wright explores how racism shows up in black bodies—all the way down to the cellular level.

Before “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson fell in love with the ocean. Her early writings about the sea and its creatures contain the seeds of what made her so widely influential.

Two prominent writers on the environment discuss how the coronavirus pandemic relates to climate change. And a scientist hunts for deadly viruses in their natural habitat.

The writer Yiyun Li says there is no better book for a time of uncertainty and fear than Tolstoy’s epic. And David Remnick talks with baseball’s greatest observer.

David Remnick on New York City’s daily ritual; and how the pandemic lays bare the inequalities of the American health-care system.

Jon Lee Anderson reports on Jair Bolsonaro’s push to allow commercial mining on protected lands, and the harm it will do to Brazil’s indigenous groups.

A Nobel Prize-winning expert on human behavior discusses why it’s hard to grasp the threat of the coronavirus. And an Instagram Live party attracts hundreds of thousands of attendees.

A wave of cases overwhelms America’s hospitals. And Susan B. Glasser discusses Trump’s coronavirus response and how the virus may shape the 2020 election.

The sister of a feared, internationally known criminal describes what it was like to turn him in.

Peter Hessler, a staff writer based in China, describes the long weeks indoors. And Lawrence Wright talks about the ripple effects of a pandemic.