The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

Inside a quirky indie publisher’s turn to Covid trutherism

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

During the brief moment when the pandemic was receding and we could be together again, all we wanted to do was move our bodies.

For one writer, “Hot Vax Summer” is a slow climb.

A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?

As one blockmate after another fell ill, we tried to stay safe and care for one another. It wasn’t always enough.

More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some scientists say the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.

What happens when we talk to animals?

Struggling to go legal in the underworld of finch smuggling.

A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.

How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?

A rider’s self-improvement project becomes a whole lot more.

On illness, lockdown, marriage, and intimacy.

We stopped at a service station where there were old truck drivers, their vehicles festooned with red banners: “All-out war against the virus, weather hard times together.” The drivers wore their masks down around their chins as they smoked. I asked for water at the only open shop, and the assistant pulled his jacket up to cover his mouth before saying “over there.”

A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

​The case against Anthony Fauci.

The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020.

Sessions with a zombie therapist.

A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler

He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?

In her pandemic summer, a college student retreated to a cabin on an island, and a job on a lobster boat.