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What’s a “Pantry Staple”?: True Stories from the Cluelessly Quarantined “That a recipe would assume you have the ingredients already, in your apartment—I mean, I’d heard of it happening, but . . . not in my lifetime.”

Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed The challenges aren’t just technological. They’re managerial.

Fact-Checking Trump on Twitter Won’t Stop His Demagoguery Trump’s use of social media has been a blight on American democracy for years, of course, but the stakes are now higher than ever.

Questions for Scientists During Any Downtime They Might Have When is an omelette a scramble? Is a frittata just a fat omelette? How many eggs can one eat before one becomes an egg?

The Weekday Crossword: Monday, May 25, 2020 Famed frenemy of P. G. Wodehouse: seven letters.

“Intimacies, Received”“Having you was like having a baby.”

Trump Lashes Out at Spell-Check for Treating Him Unfairly “Freedom of Spelling is guaranteed by the Conitution,” the President wrote.

Is Capitalism Racist?A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.

TMZ Redefines Celebrity Dirt Harvey Levin runs a gossip site that operates like an intelligence agency. How did it become so powerful?

The Multiple, Unfolding Crises for African-Americans in Minneapolis The president of the Minneapolis N.A.A.C.P. talks about the death of George Floyd, racial inequities in the city, and how activists are thinking about protests in the midst of a pandemic.

The Death of Antonio Bolívar, an Indigenous Elder in the Amazon Rainforest Bolívar, who achieved fame appearing in the film “Embrace of the Serpent,” as a man forgetting his roots, is believed to have been infected by the coronavirus, which is now threatening Amazon communities.

Goodnight Zoom “Goodnight room. Goodnight moon. Goodnight virtual background on Zoom.”

Adam Driver, the Original Man Why so many directors want to work with Hollywood’s most unconventional lead.

How People Learn to Become Resilient Resilience is a set of skills—and psychologists know how you can learn them.

A Guide to Reading Facial Expressions Behind Protective Masks Eye contact is all we have.

What to Stream: Rediscovering the Blackwood Brothers, a Pair of Great Documentarians of New York City Life The brothers’ films feature incredible footage of Thelonious Monk, plus immersive views of the subway and the city streets in the nineteen-fifties and sixties.

A Brooklyn Guitar Hero Along with toilet paper and baking supplies, acoustic guitars are flying off the shelf. Who knew that “Smoke on the Water” could cure the quarantine blues?

Wartime for Wodehouse The writer paid dearly for his indomitable high spirits in internment camps, though not in the way one might have expected.

When COVID-19 Starts to Feel Normal To cope with the unimaginable, doctors, like everyone else, are learning to become numbingly familiar with ongoing mass death.

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Streaming Wars Already we have given so much of our lives to these services, and yet they only ask more of our bodies, our souls, our minds, and, of course, our money.