Alec MacGillis, Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads by @AlecMacGillis

Alec MacGillis

AlecMacGillis

"Harvard researchers who have been following 224 children ages 7 to 15 found two-thirds had clinically significant symptoms of anxiety and depression btwn Nov 2020 and Jan 2021. That is

How is remote learning going so far this year as we head into the Thanksgiving break, roughly three months into the school year? A roundup of reports from around the

A key moment in this v good @emilybazelon roundtable about remote learning: Denver schools chief says they'll start offering child care for K-5 students, and @nhannahjones asks: "Why child care

Whoa: "Northeastern U caught wind of poll by a student asking classmates whether they planned to attend parties. 115 yes, 640 no. When pollster was contacted by school, he turned

I’ve been trying to make sense of the extraordinarily mixed messages coming from college administrations that brought students back to campus but are now upbraiding them with all manner of

Meet Bobby Bixby, 7, of Fairfax County, Va. "When virtual learning started, Fairfax parent Mindy Bixby said, her severely autistic son, Bobby, knew 50 words. But after a spring &

This is a really good and important @dwallacewells piece on the deeply counterproductive lack of nuance and candor in a lot of the public-health messaging on coronavirus:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/american-public-health-experts

This @profgalloway interview on the post-pandemic future of colleges should be a terrifying read for just about anyone in higher ed.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/scott-galloway-future-of-college.html "The top-20 universities

"A country that turned out eight combat aircraft every hour at the peak of World War II could not even produce enough 75-cent masks or simple cotton nasal swabs for

This is the first piece I've seen on the nursing home devastation that's from the perspective of an actual resident. What it's like to be confined in a room w/

I finally read @JaneMayerNYer’s big Mitch McConnell piece. I waited for the print issue and read it by the firepit, fortified by bourbon and Prine. Since I have familiarity w/

"In WI and OH, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of milk. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in FL, tractors are crisscrossing