Welcome to the weekend. It’s the unofficial start of summer in the U.S., though we will toast it without the usual barbecues and get-togethers. Many beaches are open, so we can enjoy the salt and sea once again. Whatever you are doing, I hope that the sun reaches you and that you take a moment to read some amazing journalism.
‘Straight-up fire’ in his veins: Teen battles new Covid syndrome
Jack McMorrow, 14, awoke in agony, with heart failure. His case may help doctors understand a frightening new affliction in children linked to the coronavirus.
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Running while black: Our readers respond
In the aftermath of the Ahmaud Arbery case, black runners told us they make exhaustive mental checklists, are confronted by suspicious neighbors and fear for their lives when they go out to log miles. Above, Kurt Streeter, an avid jogger and Times sports journalist, in his Seattle neighborhood.
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Suze Orman is back to help you ride out the storm
America’s favorite financial adviser was trying on retirement. Then came economic Armageddon.
[Also read: “Bethenny Frankel’s Dark Journey to Find Medical Masks.”]
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From Opinion: The end of meat is here
If you care about the working poor, about racial justice and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals, Jonathan Safran Foer writes.
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Brooklyn, before it was a global brand: Walk its history
A few hundred years in the borough, from the brownstones to the shipyards. Our critic chats with a fourth-generation Brooklynite and historian.
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Annie Glenn, champion of those with speech disorders, dies at 100
Being an astronaut’s wife thrust her into the spotlight, but a stutter left her struggling for words until she found help. Annie Glenn, above with her husband, the astronaut John Glenn, at Cape Canaveral in Florida in 1962.
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Is Ronan Farrow too good to be true?
He has delivered revelatory reporting on some of the defining stories of our time. But a close examination reveals the weaknesses in what may be called an era of resistance journalism, our media columnist writes.
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Finding joy
Writers tell us what is bringing them joy right now.
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