Short documentaries exploring issues of our time.
I can’t think of a time when I’ve consumed more media. The world is changing in many ways, and books and the news have helped enhance my understanding. I have also been watching more documentaries. I find short films, even some from several years ago, useful when it comes to making sense of the present. These are a few of my favorites: In “The Blue Line,” we see how a line of blue paint plunged a small town into a heated racial debate. “An Education in Equality” follows Idris, a young black student, for 13 years as he attends an elite Manhattan prep school. And in “How to Be Alone,” polar explorers of the past help a woman cope with the challenges of life in a pandemic. Aside from offering insights on the world today, watching beautiful documentaries is a nice way to spend an afternoon. You can find more short films about the issues shaping our current moment here. Happy watching. |
 | | Alexis Jamet |
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We face stress and isolation in our waking, pandemic lives, but at night our minds run free in funny and moving ways. |
We Need a Trick to Feel Our Joys as Deeply as Our Griefs |
Why does it sometimes feel really good to feel bad? Perhaps it has something to do with facing truth, and maybe that’s one of the lessons grief can teach us. |
Three Decades Under Lockdown |
 | | Life in Kashmir has been punctuated by military curfews and general strikes for three decades.Malik Sajad for The New York Times |
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Inequality and the Pandemic |
 | | Mona Chalabi for The New York Times |
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From the impoverished to the overcrowded, 100 New Yorkers — real and fictitious — illustrate how inequality can shape a person’s experience in the age of the coronavirus. |
How the Coronavirus Could Make America’s Gun Problem Even Deadlier |
 | | Cmannphoto/E+, via Getty Images |
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Covid-19 is already directly responsible for more than 100,000 deaths in the United States, but a new study warns that the country may see many more indirect deaths as a result of our easy access to firearms. |
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