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‘You have all the jobs’: Motherhood during the pandemic May 08, 2020

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What being a working mom is like during a pandemic from Helena Andrews-Dyer. And how learning Bach could be an expression of grief from Philip Kennicott.
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This Mother’s Day, stories of women balancing careers and kids concede that thriving is out of reach. Surviving is enough in the time of the coronavirus.
How one reporter found solace in Bach after losing his mother.
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Your money and the pandemic May 07, 2020

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Advice for managing your money, from personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary. What happens when people are too scared to seek medical care, from Frances Stead Sellers and Jessica Contrera. And what we wear when we’re stuck at home, and what it says about us, from fashion critic Robin Givhan.
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Your money and the pandemic: We answer your most pressing personal finance questions on the economic fallout of covid-19.
Patients with heart attacks, strokes and even appendicitis vanish from hospitals.
Patients in pain, dentists in distress: In a pandemic, the problem with teeth.
Our clothes tell our story. What happens when the narrative is just pajamas and sweats?
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A pandemic playbook for political campaigns May 06, 2020

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Michael Scherer describes how candidates have rewritten their campaigns during the pandemic. Jessica Contrera asks how we weigh risk against necessity, longing and fear. And Emily Heil on the anxiety-filled hellscape that is the grocery store.
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Political candidates – and not just the presidential ones – are reinventing how they campaign in the age of the pandemic.
As the country moves to reopen, Americans weigh risk against necessity, longing and fear.
Grocery shopping used to be a mundane errand. Now, we’re all feeling the stress.
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The deaths that haven’t been counted May 05, 2020

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Emma Brown on which deaths count toward the covid-19 death toll. Jeff Stein reports on the $500 billion the Federal Reserve plans to lend big corporations with little restrictions. Plus, Reed Albergotti explores what happens when cannabis is deemed an essential service.
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U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of the pandemic, far more than previously known.
The U.S. plans to lend $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay.
Weed is deemed ‘essential’ in California, but many pot businesses are on the brink of failure
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The changing face of grief May 04, 2020

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How people are dealing with grief and loss during the pandemic. And Melinda Hunt, the director of Hart Island in New York explains the challenges of burying the city’s dead.
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The coronavirus is rewriting how we grieve. Unable to gather in person, people are finding new ways to mourn.
An island in New York that has historically housed the city’s dead is being stretched by the coronavirus.
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The rise of sourdough bread baking May 02, 2020

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In the pandemic times, sourdough bread is king. Post Reports producer Reena Flores goes on a journey to find out why, with King Arthur Flour co-chief executive Karen Colberg and ancient bread maker Seamus Blackley. Read more:
People are baking bread like crazy, and now we’re running out of flour and yeast.
Now is the ideal time to learn to make sourdough bread. Here’s how.
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Two thousand hours of Louis Armstrong May 01, 2020

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Geoff Edgers on how the Louis Armstrong Museum is finding a new life online during the coronavirus pandemic -- and, just a warning, this segment contains explicit language. From The Post’s podcast “All Told,” how one blues musician is changing his act under self isolation. And Reena Flores on a new kind of romantic comedy on Netflix.
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Jazz legend Louis Armstrong is being honored in a new way at a nonprofit museum that’s going digital during the pandemic.
Blues in self isolation, with Facebook Live.
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A new rom-com with platonic love in focus.
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What is Tara Reade accusing Joe Biden of? Apr 30, 2020

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Matt Viser on the allegations against the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. Rick Noack on how nations that had a robust response to the coronavirus pandemic are beginning to cautiously reopen.
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Nations around the world that were praised for their robust responses to the coronavirus pandemic are beginning to reopen.
Allegations against the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
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What we know — and still don’t — about the coronavirus Apr 29, 2020

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Leonard Bernstein on what we know (and still don’t) about the coronavirus. Laura Meckler explains the changes schools might have to make to reopen in the fall. And Anna Fifield on Kim Jong Un, missing in action.
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What you need to know about the coronavirus.
Alternating schedules. Lunch in the classroom. Students in masks. No football. School districts will have to change things up if they want to reopen in the fall.
Where is North Korea’s leader?
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The pandemic at sea Apr 28, 2020

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Rosalind Helderman explains how the cruise industry carried the coronavirus around the globe. Greg Miller on the virus briefings Trump skipped. And, how young caregivers are impacted by social distancing, from Tara Bahrampour.
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Cruise ships kept sailing for weeks after the coronavirus was first detected, carrying the virus around the globe.
President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited the coronavirus threat. He skipped them.
Young caregivers are used to social isolation. Covid-19 is bringing added stress as it threatens resources they depend upon.
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