Greetings from San Francisco, where air purifiers are now a permanent part of our home decor and a herd of goats serves as mammalian weed wackers, clearing tinder from the dry hills. My essay for :
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Please don't miss 's gorgeous op-art online and, soon, in a newspaper near you.
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Feels good to be back in the @nytimes doing the hard-hitting journalism. Full page in print tomorrow. Thanks crackerjack team at @nytopinion. Hope everyone has some "fun" this weekend. nytimes.com/2022/09/02/opi
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Your sweat is actually doing you a favor. Don’t miss this great piece by in today’s print newspaper or right here on the internet:
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Perspiration may be embarrassing, but it can also give you that natural, dewy look that’s so popular right now, writes graphic journalist @MonaChalabi. “You could spend $2,545 on a tub of Crème de la Mer moisturizer, or you could just let your face sweat.” nyti.ms/3e15fz2
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What do we owe the vulnerable? asks my colleague in this beautiful essay in . “The empathy gap gives general society a skewed idea of what it means to be or become vulnerable, and how close we all live to it.”
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In the U.S., the death toll from Covid-19 is approaching 1 million.
If you’d like to help us memorialize those who lost their lives, we invite you to share your story here.
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This is a terrific piece of journalism that every San Francisco resident — or anyone looking to understand the fentanyl crisis — should watch.
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TODAY a story publishes that me, @stephenlamphoto, and a team of 20 other ppl at the Chronicle spent a year on. It's an immersive look at San Francisco’s fentanyl epidemic, a disaster in plain sight that has claimed more than 1,300 lives since 2020. sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/
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Mistletoe has been turned into menorahs. Christmas tree trucks are piled with dreidels. And "fa la la llamakkahs" are a thing now?
I wrote about why Jewish shoppers on TikTok are asking big-box retailers to dig a little deeper into the Hanukkah spirit nyti.ms/3d78kKx
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This book sounds amazing for all student journalists and educators.
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Today @mega2e and I are publishing an unusual book, intended to reach a particular group of young people. Perhaps you’d consider helping us. (
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The inimitable wrote a combined pregnancy announcement and a scathing entreaty to pass a comprehensive paid leave package that underscores just how much is at stake for American parents (and humans). Very glad I had a chance to work on this -
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Are religious exemptions to vaccine mandates legitimate? Curtis Chang, a former pastor, writes in that no creed or Scripture in mainstream Christianity prohibits immunization:
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On television medical dramas, anything — even the wildly implausible — can happen, but in the critical care unit, physicians can't simply "fix it in post." Read on working in the ICU and as a TV writer.
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I'm looking to talk to someone who got their first Covid vaccine shot this week or last, as part of this recent upswing in vaccinations. Got any leads? @ me or email me at first.last @ nytimes dot com
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If we talk openly with kids about race and racism, won't that just foster prejudice? Not so, writes in a guest essay for . Frank discussions about race make white kids more empathetic and increase the self-esteem of children of color.
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What is it like to come out of the closet during a pandemic? For some the isolation provided ample time for reflection, while others had to shelter in place in a decidedly less accepting environment. asked readers to share their experiences:
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Are transgender kids just a product of post-modern thinking? “I can assure you that my child was not channeling postmodern ideology almost a decade ago when she told me, at age 3, that she was not the boy we all believed her to be,” writes Marlo Mack:
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Think kids are safe from the coronavirus? Consider Brazil, where young children are dying from Covid-19 at alarming rates. Read and Albert I. Ko in :
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ICYMI, watch 's discussion with on Instagram about how women can have a better menopause instagram.com/p/CPV3Hf8JZBi/
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I will be doing an live with over at at 8 am PST/11am EST - we will be chatting about all things menopause. Please join!
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In , calls for a new view on menopause: "A feminist menopause rejects the patriarchal notion that a woman’s worth is tied to her ovarian function and that the end of her reproductive life represents the end of her productive life."
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After her abusive relationship with another woman ended, @carmenmmachado wrote an honest, innovative memoir about her experience. Now parents in Texas say they don’t want their teenagers to read her book in class. Don't miss Machado's essay in .
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Fifty years ago today, OSHA opened its doors. But despite the agency's efforts, 14 American workers still lose their lives on the job every day. explains how to keep workplaces safe in :
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Hollywood's systemic anti-black biases are costing it at least $10 billion in annual revenue, according to a McKinsey report. "Inclusion isn’t expensive. Exclusion is." writes . #Oscars
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There's something the Biden administration can do to prevent frontline workers from getting Covid-19 on the job: issue an emergency temporary standard requiring companies to institute workplace protections. explains in :
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Join and today at 11:30am ET to discuss how to think about risks for unvaccinated children on Instagram Live (Usernames NYTOpinion and NYTParenting).
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For more than a year, many Americans have reordered their lives because of the extreme danger of Covid. And Covid continues to dominate our thinking. Whether it should dominate our children’s lives is a different question.
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Are coronavirus vaccines affecting people's periods? We don't know because there's no data — and because scientists don't study menstruation enough, write and in .
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Viruses mutate all the time — that doesn't, by definition, make them more dangerous, writes in . Before we panic about every minor evolution, he argues, we should remember: "All variants are innocent until proven guilty."
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Five years ago Joe Biden said he would cut funding to scientists who didn't report the results of their federally funded experiments to the government, as the law requires. As reports, the problem remains — and the law is still not being enforced.
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Are vaccine passports our ticket to freedom from Covid-19 or an ethical nightmare? , and I will discuss in an Instagram Live for on Thursday, April 8 at 11:30 am Pacific/2:30 Eastern.
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One of Dr. Perry Cook’s sickle cell anemia patients tested positive for coronavirus and waited 27 hours in an ER to get the monoclonal antibody therapy he recommended. In , he explains why it’s so hard for patients to get the medicine they need.
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Misinformation isn't only spread on Facebook and Twitter; it's also abundant in broadcast media, writes Nicholas Ashford in . To combat the proliferation everywhere, he argues, Congress should revitalize the Fairness Doctrine.
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Some nations are developing vaccine passports that, they hope, will enable a return to quasi-normalcy. But absent global consensus on immunization standards, these passes won't end the pandemic, write and in .
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Several new state bills challenging Apple and Google’s control of the app store universe “represent an opportunity for state leaders to put fairness in commerce at the center of governance,”
and argue in .
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Testing for the coronavirus has dropped as some testing sites were turned into vaccination clinics. We won't take control of the pandemic, especially with new variants, without more testing capacity, write and in .
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Very grateful to have had the chance to work on this amazing, awe-inspiring project last year. Thank you @Artis_Curiskis for teaching me so much.
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.2 million tests, 41k cases, 40,212 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and 839 deaths. This is our final day of data collection after a very long year.
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We have three coronavirus vaccines and Covid hospitalizations are declining. But new coronavirus variants threaten our modest progress against Covid. How should you protect yourself? explains in .
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Should companies require their workers to get Covid vaccines? and @MarkCNavin argue that bosses shouldn’t make medical decisions for their employees in .
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This piece is amazing. Highly recommend.
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A stunning work of journalism by @katieengelhart, who spent hours interviewing people with dementia, their families and their carers and carefully, humanely tells their stories, and shows how America so often fails them.
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What will it take to get kids back to school? I'll be talking with on Friday, Feb.19 at 1:30pm Eastern/10:30 am Pacific on the Instagram feed, instagram.com/nytopinion/. Come join while your children are taking P.E. in your living room.
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