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Netflix's brisk documentary about Matt Robertson and Khani Le, whose March 2020 date to Costa Rica wound up lasting months, is sure to push buttons.

PJ Evans was struck by a stray bullet when a drive-by shooting occurred near his aunt’s home. The 8-year-old rising football star was having dinner with his cousins, PlayStation controller still in hand, when he was killed.

Looking Back to Look Forward: COVID-19 Faith Reflections on 2020-2021 NPR’s one-year retrospective headline read “March 11, 2020: The Day Everything Changed.” The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that day in 2020 that “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Of course, the putative anniversary was marked by a Presidential address: “Transcript: Joe Biden delivers remarks on 1-year anniversary of pandemic” (ABC). However, in this post I won’t be pulling on my yellow waders to read it; rather, I’ll focus on how convenient the March 11 is for the Professional-Managerial Class (PMC) that is so busily constructing this narrative for us, in the persons of writers at the New York Times, WaPo, People, Buzzfeed, ABC, ...