Rachel Baker: Scientists Hoped Summer Temperatures Would Tamp Down Covid-19 Cases. What Happened? (The Wall Street Journal) and Could COVID-19 Have Seasons? Searching for Signals in Earth Data (NASA)
Jessica Metcalf: America Should Prepare for a Double Pandemic (The Atlantic)
Tsung-Mei Cheng: How Taiwan beat the coronavirus (CNBC)
Alieza Durana: Eviction Looms for Millions of Americans Who Can’t Afford Rent (The Wall Street Journal)

Alan S. Blinder: The Economy Won’t Get Healthier While America Gets Sicker (The Wall Street Journal)
William Dudley: Creative Destruction: A Risky Idea Nobody Wants to Try (Bloomberg)
Julian Zelizer: Trump Pivots to Self-Pity With Polls Sinking, Pandemic Worsening (Bloomberg)

Andrew Reynolds: The Empathy of Black Voters (The New Republic)

Betsy Levy Paluck (researchers Chelsey Clark and Roni Porat mentioned): ‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work? (The New York Times)
Dean Knox and Jonathan Mummolo: Prominent Claims that Policing is Not Racially Biased Rest on Flawed Science (Medium)

Jesse Jenkins: What It Will Take for Biden to Keep His Climate Promise (Bloomberg)
Sean Wilentz: A Moment For Historian Richard Hofstadter on Anti-Intellectualism (Princeton Alumni Weekly)
Mary Caswell Stoddard: Not Bird Brains: Research Suggests Hummingbirds Use Numbers To Find Flowers (Forbes)
Ed Turner: How Many Aliens Are in the Milky Way? Astronomers Turn to Statistics for Answers (Scientific American)

Pablo Debenedetti: Explaining the odd behaviors of water (Tech Explorist)