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Zoom, FaceTime, and other video calls have become the sole way for some friends and family to connect during quarantine. But does it really bring us closer, or only highlight the distance?

Amid the pandemic, workers whose jobs once defined their lives are questioning what it was all for.

Why are women bemoaning their hair, clothing choices, and more, even during a pandemic?

On the existential comforts of coaxing yeast out of air, kneading, proofing, baking, and sharing.

Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off.

Yoga With Adriene was made for this moment.

Covid-19 is New York’s largest mass casualty event in more than 100 years. But there are no bodies in the street.

The state will probably reopen its economy more slowly than the White House suggests.

An emerging “quarantine state of mind,” a new era of frugality, and expanding how we vote: Here’s what next.

How Connecticut’s Chris Murphy, a rising Democratic star, would run the world.

“In the conversations I’m having on Hinge, coronavirus comes up every single time.”

There is some evidence that the public should wear masks. But let doctors and nurses get them first.

A coronavirus pandemic glossary.

Popular apps are awarding points for beating “bad guys” and completing “power-ups” — and drawing from real, clinically approved treatments.

The 15-minute appointment is pervasive, and despised by patients and physicians alike. Rita Charon is teaching a generation of health care providers to listen better — with the help of literature.

Brianna Jaynes asked for help for her drug addiction. Then Florida’s rehab industry exploited her for profit.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the foundations of democracy. If he wins his 2020 reelection bid, things could get a lot worse.

As the coffee giant approaches its 50th birthday and 32,000th store, what exactly does Starbucks even mean anymore?

The politically turbulent 1960s, a singular painting, and Rockwell’s unlikely change of heart.

Welcome to the Louisiana clinic at the center of the court case that could gut Roe v. Wade.

Coming out as non-binary transformed the lives of these five Americans. Here are their stories.

A look at America’s on-air town hall.

What the US can learn from other countries’ health systems.

Here’s what a so-called “smart wall” of technology at the US-Mexico border looks like.

Growing up black and undocumented in a heavily policed neighborhood is often a ticket to the prison-to-deportation pipeline.

Universal health care is hard, but it should be possible — and eight more things I discovered from visiting other countries.

Maryland has a health care system unique in the United States: a global hospital budget. Here’s how it works.

The multimillionaire Facebook co-founder is the latest moneyed titan to turn philanthropist, and has even called for Facebook’s dismantling. Can he really make a difference?

How the Dutch harnessed the market to cover everybody.

“I’m on a hamster wheel of trying to figure out how to pay this price. It just never ends.”

One sister used public health care when she got pregnant. The other delivered at a private hospital. Here’s how health care works down under.

The first in a Vox series on how countries around the world achieve universal health care.

As advocates reevaluate the value of offender registries, a support line offers a supportive ear to those who feel shunned by their communities.

Lilly Singh, Issa Rae, and others have made the leap from online auteurs to bona fide TV personalities. What happens to others who hope to turn followers and views into mainstream careers? We talk to a few who tried.

Here are four reasons America’s addiction treatment system is broken.