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Joseph Marks describes the challenges of preparing for massive mail-in voting. Juliet Eilperin breaks down why people aren’t getting tested, in places that have plenty of tests. Plus, Min Joo Kim explains how a new outbreak in South Korea has pushed its LGBTQ community into the spotlight.  Read more: Two primaries underscore dueling paths to holding elections during coronavirus pandemic As co...

Linah Mohammad reflects on the strict lockdown in Jordan. Ishaan Tharoor unpacks how the “Swedish model” for battling coronavirus is not quite what it seems. Plus, Amanda Coletta explains why expanding your household’s bubble could be a headache.  Read more: Jordan uses its army to put its capital, Amman, on lockdown. Sweden’s coronavirus strategy is not what it seems . Canadian provinces all...

Phil Rucker reports on Trump’s dismissal of the State Department’s inspector general. George Washington University’s Kathryn Newcomer on why these positions matter in overseeing the executive branch. Plus, Faiz Siddiqui investigates the pandemic-time deliveries of alcoholic beverages. Read more: The State Department inspector general fired by President Trump was looking into allegations that a sta...

In 1923, an all-white mob burned down the small mill town of Rosewood, Fla., killing at least six people and driving out black residents. Decades later, the survivors won reparations from Florida legislators, including a scholarship that allowed any Rosewood descendants to attend any of the state’s public universities. Robert Samuels reports on a conversation around the complicated legacy and effe...

Today on Post Reports, Holly Bailey and Tony Romm report that as some states begin to reopen, people returning to work face life-or-death decisions. Aaron Davis explains how an ousted U.S. health official testifies that 2020 may be “the darkest winter in modern history.” And, author Mary Beard on what she’s reading during this pandemic — she recommends Rebecca Solnit’s “Recollections of My Nonexis...

Today on Post Reports, investigative reporter Amy Brittain on the truth about Project Airbridge, a White House program set up to deliver badly needed personal protective equipment. Food reporter Laura Reiley explains the long road to recovery for restaurants. And Rachel Lerman says bartering is back in the time of the coronavirus.  Read more: Trump promised that Project Airbridge would delive...

Matt Zapotosky reports on the Justice Department’s recent moves to undercut the Mueller investigation. Aaron Gregg on the small-business loans that are going to large companies instead. And Monica Hesse on the power and popularity of Purell. Read more: Why the Justice Department moved to erase Michael Flynn’s guilty plea in the Russia investigation. Are Small Business Administration loans — part o...

Cleve Wootson on why it took so long for the suspects to be charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death. William Wan on the coronavirus’s toll on mental health. And Jacqueline Alemany on the young people left out of the virus relief efforts. Read more: It took 74 days for suspects to be charged in the death of a black jogger. The coronavirus pandemic is pushing America into a mental-health crisis . Young peo...

What does the pandemic sound like? Mostly, silence, according to critic Robin Givhan.  Read more: What does a pandemic sound like? For many of us at home, it’s a heartbreaking silence . Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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. Read more: 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. Subscribe to The...

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.  Read more: Your money and the pandemic : We answer your most pressing personal finance questio...

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.  Read more: Political candidates – and not just the presidential ones – are reinventing how they campaign in the age of the pandemic . As the country m...

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. Read more: U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of the pandemic , far more than previously known.  The U.S. plans to lend $500...

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.  Read more: 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 coron...

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 . Subscribe to T...

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. Read more: Jazz legend Louis Armstrong is being honored in a new...

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. Read more: Nations around the world that were praised for their robust responses to the coronavirus pandemic are beginning to reopen .  Allegations against the presumptive Democ...

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. Read more: 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 the...

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. Read more: Cruise ships kept sailing for weeks after the coronavirus was first detected, carrying the virus around the globe . President’s intelligence briefing book repeate...

Two doctors on the mysterious blood-clotting complication killing coronavirus patients. Heather Long explains why the economy won’t just bounce back in a “V-shaped” recovery. Plus, Lindsey Sitz on why washing your hands a lot doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.”  Read more: Doctors say that a blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients . What is a W-shaped economic recovery? (Hint: I...

Even as governors, mayors and the federal government urge or require Americans to wear masks to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the nation is divided about whether to comply. Read more: Will Americans wear masks to prevent coronavirus spread? Politics, history, race and crime factor into tough decisions . Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Dan Lamothe explains how the Navy tried and failed to control a coronavirus outbreak -- and a crisis of confidence -- on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Plus, child psychiatrist Matthew Biel on how to talk to kids about the global pandemic.  Read more: How an outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt became a defining moment for the U.S. military . Parents are the filter for how kids understand the...

Georgia will begin reopening businesses Friday, against the advice of experts and the White House. William Wan reports on what will happen next. For survivors of AIDS, an eerie deja vu, from reporter Jada Yuan. And, what Trump’s new immigration policy actually means, from Nick Miroff.  Read more: States rushing to reopen are likely making a deadly error, coronavirus models and experts warn ....

On Earth Day, Sarah Kaplan asks how we can be better Earthlings. Seung Min Kim analyzes the new coronavirus response bill working its way through Congress. And Monica Hesse explains why we’re all having extra-weird dreams. Read more: What does it mean to be a good Earthling? The Senate has passed a $484 billion bill that would expand small-business aid and boost money for hospitals and testing. Wi...

Juliet Eilperin explains the delays in widespread testing. Young people aren’t as vulnerable to the coronavirus, but the crisis is affirming their political frustrations, Hannah Knowles reports. And Michelle Lee on campaign fundraising in a pandemic. Read more: Why is it taking so long to ramp up coronavirus testing? Generation Z is fed up with the status quo. Coronavirus could affirm their belief...