Kate Cohen

Opinion In coronavirus, we have discovered a memory-resistant strain of pandemics. I can remember the beginning. I bet . Not necessarily the actual day - March 11, 2020 - that the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak a global pandemic. But the way the pandemic entered our life.

5 min After a plurality of my fellow Americans voted in a way I found incomprehensible in November, I thought, okay, maybe we need a strategy that relies less on pleas by public figures and more on private persuasion. If every Harris voter picked one Trump voter and worked to change their mind over the next four years, surely we could shift the electorate back - even if only 10 percent of us succeeded.

James Mangold, who just received an Oscar nomination for directingthe Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" (itself a best picture nominee) has said that, although his film drew from interviews, historical documents and a book about Dylan's appearance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he " didn't feel a fealty to a documentary level of facts. " A "documentary level of facts" is just facts, by the way; there aren't two kinds. (What would the other level be?