Earth control pills.

For Earth Day 2020, the side effects of the pandemic offered a glimpse of an alternative future. 1/22

"What the original Earth Day showed is that, when Americans are mobilized, remarkable things are possible.” 2/22

Advice from an emergency planner, a mosquito hunter, a survivalist, and more on how to prepare for the crises coming next (!). 3/22

Read more stories like this in our editors' favorite longreads. 4/22

Half of France’s private sector workers have now been laid off and will be paid by the government’s wage support program. 5/22

The leader of Latin America’s hardest-hit city offers lessons to other governments. 6/22

England’s chief medical officer says the chances of developing an effective vaccine for the coronavirus in the next 12 months are “incredibly small.” 7/22

A list of dozens of websites and datasets tracking policy responses to the pandemic. 8/22

States rushing to reopen are likely making a deadly error, coronavirus models and experts warn. 9/22

How did big businesses get coronavirus loans when so many small businesses were blocked? “Concierge treatment” from big banks. 10/22

“Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief.” 11/22

Some people say the subway caused New York City's coronavirus crisis; here are reasons why that may be wrong. 12/22

The US’s ousted vaccine chief says he was fired because he refused to spend federal dollars to support Trump’s embrace of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. 13/22

Fox News hosts and guests mentioned hydroxychloroquine nearly 300 times from March 23 to April 6. More recently, mentions of the drug have dropped 77 percent. 14/22

Reports from the front lines of the White House’s rollbacks of decades of public health and environmental protections. 15/22

J. Kenji López-Alt explains the food expiration dates you should follow, and those you can ignore. 16/22

A new study finds unfiltered coffee, like French press or boiled coffee, may worsen your cholesterol. 17/22

An alliance between food banks and corporate America shows itself to be more interested in “maintaining the problem of hunger than actually solving it.” 18/22

A visual poem for the moment, by Tracey McTague. 19/22

Producers of lo-fi hip-hop see a surge of listeners ever since the pandemic started. 20/22

Related: Uncertain radio, and an album that mixes birdsong and airplane noise. 21/22

Zoom screens we can get behind (or, in front of): Studio Ghibli releases a dozen video backgrounds. Also: The Bon Appétit test kitchen. 22/22

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