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Topic: Nicholas Christakis

American flags placed on the National Mall by the Covid Memorial Project to represent the 200,000 Americans that have lost their lives due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in Washington, DC, USA on September 22, 2020. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Preparing for the next plague

Chauncey DeVega
Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis (Little, Brown Spark/Getty Images)

Is everything getting worse? Maybe not

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Jeff Roberson)

Student radicals, then and now

Andrew O'Hehir
(Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress)

The real coddling on campus

Silpa Kovvali
(AP/Jeff Roberson)

They're mad for a reason

Elias Isquith
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