(In a major shift…) CDC says coronavirus spreads mainly via respiratory aerosols

ICE Hysterectomy Doctor Wasn’t Even a Board-Certified OB-GYN

Options for Reforming the Supreme Court

On the emotional labor of fighting tankies

Effective Political Giving

Captain Renault: I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

The Media Learned Nothing From 2016

Enter the Grayzone: fringe leftists deny the scale of China’s Uyghur oppression

Animals’ magnetic ‘sixth’ sense may come from bacteria, new paper suggests

This Is Why We Couldn’t Control the Pandemic

Coronavirus Tests Are Supposed to Be Free. The Surprise Bills Come Anyway.

Here Is One Graph Everyone Should See on Labor Day

What we know about China’s approach to debt relief: Insights from two decades of China-Africa debt restructuring

The Tax Cut for the Rich That Democrats Love

Wear Your Mask and Stop Talking

NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval

Will education reform wipe out Mongolian language and culture?

FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission

Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be 《Apoorva Mandavilli is doing some great COVID reporting for the Times!》

The Pay in Taiwan is Too Damn Low

India’s Covid Outbreak Is Now the World’s Fastest-Growing

Why you shouldn’t take Peter Wood seriously 《Alex’s 2015 post is newly relevant》

Blanked-out areas of Baidu Maps reveal location of Chinese camps, prisons, military facilities, the lot

Long article about John Comaroff and the allegations of sexual harassment in the Chronicle

Why Aren’t We Talking More About Ventilation? - Zeynep Tufekci