Political and social consequences

Covid-19 in China

The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab

The Communist Party is still hounding experts whose work might expose its pandemic missteps

Ya got trouble

Broadway is struggling to find its rhythm after the pandemic

The Great White Way is looking slightly less great

Pandemic fiction

Some thought covid would change literature. It has not

Two new novels by Michael Cunningham and Sigrid Nunez offer proof


The learning power of PISA

Covid-19 was a disaster for the world’s schoolchildren

The costs of wasting brainpower are huge