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Apr 26, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
For the last month, I’ve been trying to figure out why New York and Seattle fared so different in the pandemic. The result came out today in @NewYorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
Seattle was the first epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. But by mid-April, New Yorkers were dying at six times the rate of Washington State residents.
Dec 10, 2018 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Why are so many people so angry? And what can we do about it? I spent much of the last year reporting a story for @theatlantic on who is to blame for all of the fury coursing through our politics and our personal lives. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…2/ The first surprise: I went into this project thinking of anger as a negative emotion. But when I looked at the social science, I learned that anger can be a powerful force for good.