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U.S. school systems are stuck between two bad choices. A classroom chair rests between two dismantled water fountains at Edmondson Westside High School in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 28, 2020. The photo shows a red chair in a beige-colorored hallway where two porticos feature white porcelain basins now dry for the pandemic. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

The Kids Are (Not) Alright

by Kevin O’Rourke, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Theo Vos

Analyzing the evidence against—and in support of—reopening schools during COVID-19

Food
Hundreds of petroglyphs cover Newspaper Rock, in Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, next to the Naajo Nation, on October 29, 2017. The photo shows a dark rock face covered with hundreds of carved depictions of humans and animals. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen

The Voices of the Navajos

by Jessica Top

After COVID-19, who will hear the Navajo Nation and address education, water infrastructure, and food insecurity issues?

Health care workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the coronavirus outbreak in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 4, 2020. The photo shows two people in blue protective suits wheeling people away from a hospital entrance. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
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I Am an ER Doctor in New York City

by Vineet Kumar Sharma

The unseen mental and emotional cost of the COVID-19 pandemic—chronicled in the journals of one emergency physician