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- The Times interviewed dozens of Democratic Party officials, including 93 superdelegates, and found "overwhelming opposition to handing [Bernie] Sanders the nomination if he fell short of a majority of delegates."
- A California coronavirus patient, who may be the first case of person-to-person transmission of it in the U.S., had to wait days to be tested because of restrictive federal criteria, despite doctors’ requests.
- On the plus side, more than 80 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases are not severe. But experts warn that mild symptoms could also make the epidemic harder to contain.
- Rebecca Traister writes that the latest debate perfectly captured Americans' "exhausting tendency to mistrust women."
- Becoming a TikTok star and then trying to maintain it in some way sounds incredibly stressful.
- Oh wow: physicists may have accidentally discovered a new state of matter.
- A teacher has been accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old autistic girl in a Queens classroom.
- Pope Francis is sick a day after he was seen touching masked well-wishers in Rome.
- Here's a fun piece about how Uncut Gems is structured like a basketball game.
- Take a tour of the world's most expensive hotel room, which costs $100K a night.
- Caity Weaver investigates a royal Instagram mystery/conspiracy theory: "While sovereignty operates under hierarchy, it survives by public support. What happens, then, when monarchical order is pitted against social popularity?"
- Stephen Malkmus gets his own Instagram filter in the music video for his awesome new song "Shadowbanned."
- And finally, make sure you put your volume up to appreciate the many noises of Fry:
Published Feb 27, 2020
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