"As lockdowns began, artists and models migrated to video conferencing—revolutionizing who gets to sketch and be sketched."

"Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, and two-time presidential candidate has been hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19."

>"A region that was on an upward trajectory has seen its prospects for progress badly damaged by the coronavirus."

>"Some researchers say that Facebook isn’t being transparent enough about Covid-19 content on its platform."

>"Was a fun internet culture around vaccines ever going to last?"

Social media companies, which yield state-like power, have a lot to learn from early modern company-states like the East India Company.

>"Delta variant continues to spread as experts question government’s planned final easing of lockdown restrictions on 21 June"

"As the Covid-19 pandemic forced greater state intervention in the economy, many commentators proclaimed the end of neoliberalism – but governments around the world are acting to prop up the market."

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>"But the F.B.I. is still using residual authority to obtain business records under a partly expired Patriot Act provision, a new report showed."