New York Times senior writer David Leonhardt led a virtual event bringing to life the breadth and depth of The Times newsletter The Morning.
Russian forces continue to make gains in President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, as a humanitarian crisis there grows. But a swift victory has eluded him.
Sabrina Tavernise, a correspondent for The New York Times, is covering the war in Ukraine for the Times podcast “The Daily.” She spoke with David and described what she had seen on the ground.
And it’s a word that has expressed what many have been longing for since around March 2020: normalcy.
New cases of Covid-19 have been declining in many places. Recent C.D.C. guidelines suggest that 70 percent of Americans can stop wearing masks, and some governors say Americans will need to learn how to live with the virus.
But what will that mean? And when will it be? Is this moment different from previous glimmers of hope?
Public health researchers and physicians, Dr. Monica Gandhi and Dr. Robert Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, explained this moment in the pandemic. Gandhi and Wachter have done extensive work communicating the risks of Covid-19 to the public, particularly on Twitter, but their stances sometimes differ: Gandhi tends to embrace a quicker return to normal while Wachter is more cautious. We took written and video questions from the audience.
Does a possible new state of the world mean renewed levels of social interaction, relationships and even love? Daniel Jones and Miya Lee, Modern Love editors, and Anna Martin, host of the “Modern Love” podcast, explored optimism through our readers’ own Tiny Love Stories: short, true tales of love, with the theme of hope and renewal. Ariana DeBose, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Side Story,” read a selection of her and our editors’ favorite reader submissions.
This virtual event was livestreamed on March 9.