‘Screw COVID’: 250K Bikers to Defy Common Sense for 9 Days

By Michael Daly

As the coronavirus rages around the nation, a quarter of a million motorcyclists are descending on Sturgis, South Dakota, where money seems to have trumped sense.

By Asawin Suebsaeng, Will Sommer

The music icon could play spoiler for Biden. But in Trumpland there is some concern that he may draw votes away from the president.

By Cassie da Costa

Acclaimed filmmaker Jayro Bustamante talks to Cassie da Costa about his latest, which explores Guatemala’s “Silent Holocaust” against the Mayan-Ixil through a ghost story.

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Starring Seth Rogen as immigrant Herschel Greenbaum, who dreams of a better life but falls into a vat of pickles and is perfectly preserved for 100 years, emerging in present day Brooklyn.

By Barbara McQuade

Why was it left to New York’s attorney general to file a civil suit? The silence of the U.S. Department of Justice is deafening.

By Olivia Messer

Both New York and New Jersey got slammed early this spring. Only one is worrying health experts right now.

By Alexandra Marvar

Recent studies indicate SARS-CoV-2’s impacts on the brain—from memory lapses and depression to strokes and seizures—could plague survivors for years, decades, even generations.

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By Barbie Latza Nadeau

Port authorities claimed the cargo, offloaded from ship TRUMP D, named after the U.S. president, is safe because it is in “big bags” just like those in Beirut.

By Max Watman

The famous chef’s culinary education foundation is doing incredibly important work—it just needs to survive 2020.

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 RULES? WHAT RULES? 

Events in the city are capped at 50, but hundreds packed a hotel lobby despite warnings.

 PUNISHING WHISTLEBLOWERS 

“This is not ok. Not to mention the 10% mask rate,” one 15-year-old student wrote.

 HENLEY HEAVEN 

Brooklinen’s Henleys are the comfiest thing I own. And they don’t look half bad, either.

 SLOW PROGRESS 

The American economy has only recovered about 42 percent of the 22 million jobs it lost.

 NOT COOL, DUDE 

Let’s just say the employee gave the joints a personal touch.

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