Beg your pardon.
Trump has commuted the prison sentence for Roger Stone, who had reportedly been "praying" for Trump to do so.
1/21 | POLITICO, The Hill
After months of decline, America's death rate from coronavirus has risen sharply, with death tolls increasing by more than 100% in Texas, Arizona, and South Carolina.
2/21 | The Washington Post
Scientists say plasma injections from COVID-19 survivors could help inoculate people at risk—but feds and Big Pharma won't act.
3/21 | Los Angeles Times
Yankee Stadium can hold 11% of its capacity safely during the pandemic—not the 20% the team owner wants.
4/21 | NJ.com
The pandemic has left people dying alone—without those nearby who need to hear their final words.
5/21 | The Atlantic
Just over 420 COVID-19 tests per 100,000 people have been performed in Africa—raising fears of a silent epidemic.
6/21 | Reuters
Related: Over the past three months, African countries have lost nearly $55 billion in travel and tourism due to the pandemic.
7/21 | Reuters
See also: Responding to outrage over police murders in the US, Ghana tells Black Americans: "Build a life in Ghana. You do not have to stay where you are not wanted forever."
8/21 | The Washington Post
"I'm also suspicious of the way that Not Being Racist is a project that people seem to be approaching like boot camp." An interview with Jia Tolentino about, among other things, the protests and white America's reckoning with racial inequality.
9/21 | Interview
Fascism has been in the US as long as anywhere else—ask anyone who's Black in America.
10/21 | The New York Review of Books
Budget cutbacks have resulted in not printing green cards—disconcerting given Trump's immigration stance.
11/21 | The Washington Post
The top writer for Tucker Carlson's show has resigned after a CNN investigation found he'd been posting bigoted comments for years under a pseudonym on a forum.
12/21 | CNN
Nandini Jammi of Sleeping Giants says her white male co-founder gaslighted her out of the movement they built.
13/21 | Medium
To stop Trump from playing their music at rallies, artists may have to sue—as the Rolling Stones are now threatening to do.
14/21 | Pitchfork
"I was always happy to recommend that customers shop the city's local independent bookstores for titles we didn't have on hand." David Gutowski on working at an Amazon bookstore.
15/21 | Longreads
Christo's first posthumous project—wrapping the Arc de Triomphe—is now set for 2021, and his team is ready to carry out more of his work.
16/21 | The New York Times
In an analysis of 2019's YouTube trending videos, cooking channels were among the most popular.
17/21 | Ammar Alyousfi
Listen: Act 1 of the Hamilton soundtrack if it had been performed by the Muppets. Kudos to Animal for the rendition of "You'll Be Back" at 19:01.
18/21 | The Morning News
Oceans rise, empires fall: A map of the roads of the Roman Empire ca. 125 AD in the style of the London Underground, by Sasha Trubetskoy.
19/21 | Boing Boing
Serene collages on paper of waterfalls, by Thomas Danthony.
20/21 | This Isn't Happiness
Link correction to yesterday's newsletter: Jessa Crispin explains why she doesn't have children.
21/21 | The Guardian
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