The day everything changed.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus taking hold in the United States. An oral history of where people were, from the Oval Office to the Utah Jazz locker room. / WIRED, BuzzFeed News
Readers share the final picture they took before the coronavirus was declared a pandemic. / NBC News
Ramesh Ponnuru: Covid keeps refusing to cooperate in providing us with neat political lessons. / Bloomberg
Katie Heaney: Single people and partnered people finally have something in common: a year without sex. / The Cut
Recent movies have set major box office records in China. The boom may be a sign of things to come stateside once theaters reopen. / The Ringer
An Iowa reporter, arrested last summer as she was covering a Black Lives Matter protest, is found not guilty. / NPR
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson says he will sign a bill that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances. / The Arkansas Democrat Gazette
How to address problems of scale in a democracy? "Delegate much more power to states, provinces and localities." / Aeon
See also: A map of media outlets across the US that primarily serve Black communities. Also, bird migration forecast maps let you determine whether birds will be passing overhead tonight. / ArcGIS Story Maps, Birdcast
Rancho Mirage, the desert playground city outside Los Angeles, will be the site of the country's first 3D-printed community. / The Los Angeles Times
The absence of public toilets in the United States is "a delightful encapsulation of so much that is wrong with American economic policy these days." / The Grumpy Economist
Who was behind the recent mysterious shootings in the Malibu wilderness? Residents worry the police have locked up the wrong guy. / The New Yorker
The creator of those spookily convincing Tom Cruise deepfakes says they're not worth worrying about (they're too hard to make). / TikTok, The Verge
Ross Douthat throws cold water on newsletter platform Substack—via his Substack. / Reactions
See also: "How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley." / The Baffler
What do Operation Desert Storm and Brexit have in common? The OODA Loop, an obscure military strategy that requires a half-day presentation to explain. / The Morning News
Coming soon to your local hair salon? Digitally printing floral motifs on blonde extensions. / Colossal
"An epidemic" of bald Florida men are renting billboards that need to be extended in order to fit their bald heads. / Reddit
Tennis has an identity crisis: of players harassing, even spitting on their umpires. Meanwhile, Roger Federer continues to keep ballkids on their toes. / The Racquet, Instagram
Today in the Tournament of Books! Transcendent Kingdom meets We Ride Upon Sticks, judged by Felicia Davin. / The Tournament of Books
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