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Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: nyer.cm/4i9OtIB
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“Jeopardy!” contestants’ in-game chats with Alex Trebek, whose last episode aired recently, provide a gold mine of insight about being ordinary. nyer.cm/HHUcABG
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The Black community’s reluctance to simply take the word of public officials that the vaccine is safe arises from a history of health care that is replete with acts of cruelty and depravity to Black Americans. nyer.cm/emhQs5I
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While you are explaining the next activity, cold suspicion envelops you. What if students are not listening to you at all, but are instead playing Minecraft? nyer.cm/UHD4t24
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“The Biden Administration is going to face a unique set of circumstances that, taken together, are going to make their challenges ever more daunting than I remember in any previous transition,” the former director of the C.I.A. said. nyer.cm/EtSC5lw
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In a new book, the Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb lays out his reasoning for insisting that a recently discovered interstellar object is actually the handiwork of an alien civilization. nyer.cm/51RfMoO
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Watch footage recorded by the veteran war reporter Luke Mogelson, who followed Trump supporters as they stormed the U.S. Capitol and forced their way into the Senate chamber. nyer.cm/6Kmsct2
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