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1 The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship

There’s a reason you miss the people you didn’t even know that well.

A woman sits alone, with others floating around her. Everyone has their faces blanked out.

2 Vaccinated People Are Going to Hug Each Other

The vaccines are phenomenal. Belaboring their imperfections—and telling people who receive them never to let down their guard—carries its own risks.

Julia Marcus

3 Just Open the Schools Already

We’ve known for months that young children are less susceptible to serious infection and less likely to transmit COVID-19. Let’s act like it.

Derek Thompson

A man wearing a medical mask looks into the distance as masked students walk to school buses after class.

4 The Myth That Gets Men Out of Doing Chores

They’re just as good at recognizing messes as women—they just don’t feel the same pressure to clean them up.

Joe Pinsker

A photograph of children on and around a dining-room table, making a mess

5 How Anthony Fauci Survived Donald Trump

The new White House chief medical adviser explains what it was really like to work for an administration that tried constantly to undermine him.

Peter Nicholas

6 Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body

Quarantine is turning you into a stiff, hunched-over, itchy, sore, headachy husk.

Amanda Mull

painting of women bending in awkward positons.

7 The Dogs Trained to Sniff Out COVID-19

Images from around the world, showing canine COVID-19–detection programs under development

Alan Taylor

Two men in uniform hold dogs they are training

8 The Literary Origins of Netflix’s Latest Smash Hit

Lupin, the French-language series about a charismatic thief, embraces its source material—and then transcends it.

Sophie Gilbert

9 The Night of the Rubber Knives

Republicans appear poised to flinch from reality, protect Trump, and betray the country.

David Frum

10 How the Pandemic Stoked a Backlash to Multilevel Marketing

YouTube vigilantes are taking consumer advocacy into their own hands.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

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1 The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship

2 Vaccinated People Are Going to Hug Each Other

3 Just Open the Schools Already

4 The Myth That Gets Men Out of Doing Chores

5 How Anthony Fauci Survived Donald Trump

6 Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body

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