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How the Pandemic Broadened My Horizons as a Diner From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week Share this story Nami Nori [Official] This post originally appeared on January 16, 2020 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. . Reflecting back on how I dined in 2020, the overarching theme is one of austerity. Pre-pandemic, I ate most of my meals outside of my house, always with friends and cow...

Also, City So Unreal and “The Plague Year.”

Reporting on the trajectory of COVID-19 in the U.S., the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says that “the magnitude of our failure is unparalleled.”

UPDATED: January 9, 2021 07:31 IST Winter solstice. Concealed in a cloud, Jupiter and Saturn kiss unseen. With 78 million lives interrupted by a speck of RNA gone rogue, Earth is a grisly planet. Even in an appalling year, because life is more than srushti pushti nashti, bookwards we leaned, inevitably reading more about pandemics. Words, words, words—but you’ve heard that one before. Mark Honigsbaum, with nine examples of pestilence, paints the 20th as The Pandemic Century. Armed with germ...

The U.S. has only 4% of the worlds population — and yet it accounts for 20% of all COVID deaths. New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright discusses Americas "plague year." Well talk about the mishandling of the outbreak and his novel The End of October, about a deadly pandemic.

Go read this New Yorker report on the failed response to COVID-19 in the US Dozens of choices made the pandemic a catastrophe Share this story Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There are three moments this year that determined the scale of the COVID-19 catastrophe in the United States, argues New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright in a sweeping, searing look at the country’s year spent fighting (and failing) against COVID-19. The magazine is devoting an entire double issue to catalogi...

And now the light comes back. On Monday the winter solstice arrived, marking the moment we begin the slow climb out of the darkness, like weary miners exiting the pit. This year more than ever, the shift feels psychological as well as astronomical, so it’s a good time to take

As the daylight now grows longer, and the nights shorter, columnist Mary Schmich offers her list of what she's missed and appreciated in a dark year.

× And now the light comes back. On Monday the winter solstice arrived, marking the moment we begin the slow climb out of the darkness, like weary miners exiting the pit. This year more than ever the shift feels psychological as well as astronomical, so its a good time to take account of the things we’ve missed during this dark time, along with what has provided some light in spite of it all. In that spirit, I’ve made two lists. I encourage you to make your own. Things Ive missed 1. The a...