News

• Theo: Homeless at age 7 (Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2020)

• Where will everyone go? ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found. (Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 23, 2020)

• How the virus won: Invisible outbreaks sprang up everywhere. The United States ignored the warning signs. We analyzed travel patterns, hidden infections and genetic data to show how the epidemic spun out of control. (The New York Times, June 25, 2020)

• “We take the dead from morning to night” (Jason Horowitz, New York Times, March 27, 2020)

• Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially and how to “flatten the curve” (Harry Stevens, Washington Post, March 14, 2020)

• Two women fell sick from coronavirus. One survived. (Sui-Lee Wee and Vivian Wang, New York Times, March 13, 2020)

• The Next Word: Where will predictive text take us? (John Seabrook, The New York, Oct. 14, 2019)

• Their family bought land one generation after slavery. The Reels brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave it. (Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, July 15, 2019)

• “I don’t want to shoot you, brother”: A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. (Joe Sexton, ProPublica, Nov. 29, 2018)

• Slipping Away: Joe Aubin has Alzheimer’s. He’s 38. (Shannon Proudfoot, Maclean’s, Sept. 14, 2015) AND “I am mine”: This is what Alzheimer’s is like at 41 (Shannon Proudfoot, Maclean’s, Sept. 18, 2018)

Sports

• Nike’s new ad is an editing marvel, and maybe the best covid spot yet (Tim Nudd, Muse by Clio, July 30, 2020)

• The business of sports resumes amid COVID-19, but at what cost? (Cheri L. Bradish, The Conversation, July 29, 2020)

• VIDEO: Fitting “The Look” (CBC Sports, Part IV): Olympians Khamica Bingham and Christabel Nettey discuss the definition of beauty they've been exposed to and how the colour of their skin has affected their marketability.

• The Confederate Flag didn’t bother Bubba Watson. Until it Did. (Juliet Macur, The New York Times, June 19, 2020)

• Sally Jenkins: This is why Colin Kaepernick took a knee (The Washington Post, May 30, 2020)

• Called by Death: How the 1919 Stanley Cup Final provides a window into modern history’s deadliest pandemic (Gare Joyce, Sportsnet, April 2020)

• Cam Newton’s next chapter will tell us a lot about the state of the black quarterback (Jerry Brewer, Washington Post, March 27, 2020)

• Damned Yankee: John Malangone had all the tools to succeed Yogi Berra at catcher for the New York Yankees, but his torment over a dark family secret kept him from fulfilling his prodigious promise (Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated, Oct. 13, 1997)