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Trump ordered more N95 masks. 3M says his tactics could make the shortage worse.

As millions of respirators keep surfacing, health care workers say they need more.

By Rebecca Heilweil

America has no federal response to this crisis

Trump is playing president on television instead of doing the job.

By Matthew Yglesias

The US needs a 9/11 Commission for the coronavirus

A former 9/11 Commission member explains why.

By Alex Ward

9 questions about how to get the coronavirus stimulus funds, answered

How to access the direct payments, unemployment insurance, and small-business loans in the CARES Act.

By Li Zhou and Ella Nilsen

How coronavirus has changed US employment, in 6 charts

Unemployment rates, hiring, working from home — the pandemic is changing everything about the state of work.

By Rani Molla

A judge may have saved thousands of Wisconsin voters from being disenfranchised by coronavirus

Judge William Conley’s order is narrow, but it is just broad enough to save thousands of voters from disenfranchisement.

By Ian Millhiser

The toilet paper shortage is more complicated than you think

Suppliers aren’t sure when toilet paper will be readily available again.

By Terry Nguyen

Vox is starting a book club. Come read with us!

Our pick for April is N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became.

By Constance Grady

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6.6 million more unemployed

Last week's unemployment numbers shattered all records. This week, they doubled. Vox's Matthew Yglesias, host of The Weeds podcast, proposes a way out of this mess.

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8 great fitness apps for socially distant gym-goers

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Why people are being released from jails and prisons during the pandemic

By Catherine Kim

Trump and the “P Act,” debate over face coverings: Friday’s coronavirus news

By Jen Kirby

The online board game Dominion is the only thing keeping me sane during coronavirus

By Dylan Matthews

The Other Lamb is chilling, vengeful horror about coming of age in a cult

By Alissa Wilkinson

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The Vox guide to navigating the coronavirus crisis

How to navigate society’s new normal.

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The mask shortage is forcing health workers to disregard basic infection control

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How the US stacks up to other countries in confirmed coronavirus cases

By Dylan Scott and Rani Molla

Why we want to buy so much stuff during quarantine

By Kyle Chayka

Coronavirus isn’t transphobic. But America’s economic and health systems are.

By Katelyn Burns

What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic

By Ezra Klein

New data says the unemployment rate surged to 4.4 percent in March — but the truth is worse

By Matthew Yglesias and Rani Molla

Gerrymandering is bad for democracy. The new doc Slay the Dragon shows how to fight it.

By Alissa Wilkinson

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Will video dating become the new normal?

"In the conversations I’m having on Hinge, coronavirus comes up every single time."

By Serena Coady

How small businesses can get money from the stimulus package

By Li Zhou

How to get the coronavirus unemployment benefits, explained

By Ella Nilsen

Why Jeff Bezos’s $100 million donation to food banks won’t satisfy his critics

By Theodore Schleifer

How Covid-19 immunity testing can help people get back to work

By Umair Irfan

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The race to make more ventilators

The race to make more ventilators

Wilbur Ross’s prediction about the coronavirus helping the US economy could not have been more wrong

By Aaron Rupar

How Trump’s impeachment trial foreshadowed his handling of the coronavirus crisis

By Aaron Rupar

Tiger King is a mesmerizing train wreck. Here are more stories just like it.

By Aja Romano

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Why it can be so hard to tell if you have Covid-19

By Umair Irfan

Calling health care workers “heroes” erases just how terrified and exposed they really are

By Arghavan Salles and Jessica Gold

The stimulus’s $349 billion program to pay workers at struggling small businesses, explained

By Dylan Matthews

You’re single. You live alone. Are you allowed to have a coronavirus buddy?

By Sigal Samuel

Why books matter right now, and which ones you should read

By Constance Grady

Another way coronavirus will make Americans’ lives worse in the long term: More guns

By German Lopez

Let’s think twice about Tiger King

By Alissa Wilkinson

The Democratic National Convention has been postponed until August 17

By Li Zhou

Gutting fuel economy standards during a pandemic is peak Trump

By David Roberts

The Trump administration’s botched coronavirus response, explained

By German Lopez

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12 things everyone needs to know about the coronavirus pandemic

By Brian Resnick

6.6 million jobless claims, a grim milestone for Spain: Thursday’s coronavirus news

By Jen Kirby

Zoom responds to its privacy (and porn) problems

By Sara Morrison

Why authors are so angry about the Internet Archive’s Emergency Library

By Constance Grady

Wisconsin has an election April 7 in the middle of a pandemic. It’s shaping up to be a debacle.

By Ian Millhiser

Amazon is banning the sale of N95 and surgical masks to the general public

By Jason Del Rey

Sen. Kelly Loeffler sold at least $18 million more in stocks before the coronavirus crash than previously reported

By Katelyn Burns