What we can learn from the president’s test result.
If you ever needed confirmation that the science behind the coronavirus is constantly evolving, this week certainly provided it. On Friday, President Trump and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus just days after he received a negative test result and participated in the first presidential debate. Alarming, yes. But should we be surprised? |
The answer is a clear no for Melinda Wenner Moyer, who writes about science and health. Rather, she says Trump’s test underscores how careful we need to be about treating any results as definitive when successful detection of the virus is not guaranteed. |
“There is a real risk in being cavalier,” Frank Bruni pointed out in a column after the news broke. But none of us are untouchable. “It is time,” as he wrote, “at long last, to learn. To be smarter. To be safer. To be more responsible, to others as well as to ourselves.” Because as this week shows, no one — not even the president of the United States — can escape this deadly disease. |
The Amazon Has Seen Our Future |
“We’ve been talking about saving the rainforest for decades, but trees are still burning, oil is still spilling, and dams are still being built.” We asked experts from the region to imagine a better future. This is what they told us. |
Considering a Coronavirus Divorce? You’re in Good Company |
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“Everyone assumes I was wronged and that I’m embarrassed,” a neighbor of Kim Brooks told her. “But I’m not embarrassed at all. I’m happy. I chose my life and myself and my kids over this partnership. I chose me over him.” |
Trump ‘Can’t Resist People Wanting to See His Face’ |
 | | It’s the full MAGA treatment — hat but no mask — for a Trump supporter at a campaign rally in Minden, Nev., on Sept. 12.Doug Mills/The New York Times |
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Why isn’t President Trump telling Americans to wear masks? Farhad Manjoo took a deep dive into how the humble face covering set off so much ire among a section of Americans. |
Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells |
 | | A number of fringe groups will interpret President Trump’s message as including them.Allison Dinner/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
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Kathleen Belew has spent years researching the white power movement. But only now does she see how it represents an attack on American democracy. “We are decades, if not generations, into this problem,” she writes. “A call to arms like ‘stand back and stand by’ is nothing less than catastrophic.” |
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