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Horrors real and imagined will keep you up late at night.

Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker staff writer who was one of the first to warn of global pandemics, and now in his latest work of nonfiction, “The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID,” Wright shares what he’s learned from investigating the origins, handling, and ongoing threats of the pandemic and what that means for Americans and the world. Wright joins Washington Post columnist David Ignatius at Washington Post Live on Tuesday, June 8 at 1:00pm ET.

This special edition of the "Reliable Sources" newsletter is a look ahead to the next three months in pop culture, politics, business, tech, and more.

Lawrence Wright’s deep research reveals the oversights and errors that fatally hampered the US reponse to Covid

Sarah Marshall on America’s weird penchant for satanic panics.

The coronavirus is mutating in ways that let it spread easily. Speedy vaccination is our best chance to prevent dangerous mutations

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You may have heard Matthew McConaughey being talked about as a potential viable candidate for governor of Texas. He certainly wouldn’t be the first Hollywood figure to get into politics — time is a flat circle, after all — but it was unclear exactly how seriously he was taking the idea. McConaughey said in March […]

Cynthia Tucker: A path to Americas end times Cynthia Tucker FacebookTwitterEmail Follow the artists. The brilliant among them usually detect the trends in a society or culture before the rest of us, whether we are politicians, plumbers or college professors. Novelists from Margaret Atwood to Octavia Butler have been writing fictional accounts of the collapse of the United States for decades, and I am just now seeing what they see: My nation is teetering on the brink. If it weren’t so horrifyi...

The American Society of Magazine Editors has nominated our coverage of the past year of pandemic and political upheaval through reporting, criticism, photography, and documentary filmmaking.