Covid-2019 - 2022-05-29

In "Recommended Reading," we highlight yet another New York Times "human interest" story exploiting the tragedy in Uvalde to titillate its readers -- this one about the constant state of anxiety that besets schoolchildren. But for the last two years, until Uvalde, what was it that was making schoolchildren anxious, and what "newspaper of record" led the way in stoking that anxiety? You have one guess.