Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All through December, we’ll be featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020.
整个 12 月，我们都会重点报道 Longreads 的 2020 年最佳作品。
Here’s a list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
以下是我们每周排名前 5 的电子邮件中被选为第一名的每个故事的列表。
If you like these, you can sign up to receive our weekly email every Friday.
如果您喜欢这些，您可以注册以每周五接收我们的每周电子邮件。
## — January —
## — 一月 —
## ‘I Believe in Love’: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Final Year, In Her Own Words
## “我相信爱情”：伊丽莎白·沃策尔的最后一年，用她自己的话说
Elizabeth Wurtzel | GEN | January 8, 2020 | 19 minutes (4,830 words)
伊丽莎白·沃策尔 |根 | 2020 年 1 月 8 日 | 19 分钟（4,830 字）
Memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel was working on this, her final personal essay, when she passed away on January 7th, 2020 from metastatic breast cancer.
回忆录作家伊丽莎白·沃策尔 (Elizabeth Wurtzel) 正在撰写她的最后一篇个人文章，她于 2020 年 1 月 7 日因转移性乳腺癌去世。
In the piece she reveals that as her health was declining, her marriage was unraveling, and that she was still wrestling with new information her mother finally revealed a couple of years ago: that her biological father was not the same man as the father she grew up with.
在这篇文章中，她透露，随着她的健康状况每况愈下，她的婚姻正在瓦解，她仍在努力应对她母亲几年前终于透露的新信息：她的亲生父亲与和她一起长大的父亲不是同一个人。
With an introduction and end note from her editor and friend, Garance Franke-Ruta.
她的编辑兼朋友加兰斯·弗兰克-鲁塔 (Garance Franke-Ruta) 提供了介绍和尾注。
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## Shadow of a Doubt
## 怀疑的阴影
Emily Bazelon | The New York Times Magazine | January 16, 2020 | 19 minutes (4,800 words)
艾米丽·巴泽隆 |纽约时报杂志 | 2020 年 1 月 16 日 | 19 分钟（4,800 字）
In 2011, Michael Shannon was wrongly convicted of murder, even though two jurors voted to acquit him—a result of a Louisiana law rooted in discrimination.
2011 年，迈克尔·香农 (Michael Shannon) 被错误地判犯有谋杀罪，尽管两名陪审员投票判定他无罪——这是路易斯安那州一项根植于歧视的法律的结果。
For defendants like Shannon and the holdout jurors who believed in their innocence, it has left a bitter legacy.
对于像香农这样的被告和坚持认为自己无罪的陪审员来说，这留下了痛苦的遗产。
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## The Prison Inside Prison
## 监狱里的监狱
Michael Barajas | Texas Observer | January 21, 2020 | 25 minutes (6,335 words)
迈克尔·巴拉哈斯 |德克萨斯观察家| 2020 年 1 月 21 日 | 25 分钟（6,335 字）
Decades with no personal contact, no way back into the general prison population, cut off from the possibility of parole — solitary confinement is an ongoing experiment in cruelty on human subjects.
几十年来没有任何个人接触，无法回到普通监狱人口中，也被切断了假释的可能性——单独监禁是一项持续不断的对人类受试者的残酷实验。
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## Adventures in Publishing Outside the Gates
## 出版业的门外冒险
Wendy C.
温迪·C.
Ortiz | Gay Magazine | January 29, 2020 | 14 minutes (3,521 words)
奥尔蒂斯 |同性恋杂志| 2020 年 1 月 29 日 | 14 分钟（3,521 字）
When Latinx author Wendy C.
当拉丁裔作家 Wendy C.
Ortiz shopped her memoir, Excavation, about the inappropriate sexual relationship her eighth grade English teacher initiated with her, mainstream publishers wouldn’t give her the time of day.
奥尔蒂斯买了她的回忆录《挖掘》，讲述了她八年级英语老师与她发生的不恰当的性关系，主流出版商不肯给她时间。
She published it with tiny Future Tense Books, and the book gained a strong following.
她将这本书与小型未来时书籍一起出版，这本书赢得了大批追随者。
Among her readers was white author Kate Elizabeth Russell, whose novel, My Dark Vanessa — for which she received a seven-figure deal and a blurb from Stephen King — is remarkably similar.
她的读者中有白人作家凯特·伊丽莎白·拉塞尔 (Kate Elizabeth Russell)，她的小说《我的黑暗瓦妮莎》(My Dark Vanessa) 与她的小说非常相似，她为此获得了七位数的交易和斯蒂芬·金 (Stephen King) 的简介。
In this essay, Ortiz takes the white-dominated publishing industry to task for its longstanding discrimination against, and erasure of, writers of color.
在这篇文章中，奥尔蒂斯批评了白人主导的出版业长期以来对有色人种作家的歧视和抹杀。
## — February —
## — 二月 —
## The Money Behind Trump’s Money
## 特朗普金钱背后的金钱
David Enrich | The New York Times Magazine | February 4, 2020 | 27 minutes (6,900 words)
大卫·恩里奇 |纽约时报杂志 | 2020 年 2 月 4 日 | 27 分钟（6,900 字）
The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.
总统和他的最后贷款人德意志银行的内幕故事。
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## ‘The intelligence coup of the century’
## “本世纪的情报政变”
Greg Miller | The Washington Post | February 11, 2020 | 35 minutes (8,928 words)
格雷格·米勒 |华盛顿邮报 | 2020 年 2 月 11 日 | 35 分钟（8,928 字）
The CIA, in a secret partnership with West Germany, used Crypto AG to sell encryption services to gullible governments and then promptly read all their clandestine communications.
中央情报局与西德秘密合作，利用 Crypto AG 向容易上当受骗的政府出售加密服务，然后立即读取他们所有的秘密通信。
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## The End of Miss America
## 美国小姐的终结
Lyz Lenz | Jezebel | February 20, 2020 | 15 minutes (3,814 words)
莱兹·伦茨 |耶洗别 | 2020 年 2 月 20 日 | 15 分钟（3,814 字）
If only the actual Miss America were as gorgeous and erudite as this essay about the decrepitude of a stagnant pageant in a changing world.
要是真正的美国小姐能像这篇关于瞬息万变的世界中停滞不前的选美比赛的衰落的文章一样华丽和博学就好了。
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## You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
## 您可能感染冠状病毒
James Hamblin | The Atlantic | February 24, 2020 | 12 minutes (3,045 words)
詹姆斯·汉布林 |大西洋 | 2020 年 2 月 24 日 | 12 分钟（3,045 个字）
You might not know you have it, though.
不过，您可能不知道自己拥有它。
## — March —
## — 三月 —
## Shell Is Looking Forward
## 壳牌展望未来
Malcolm Harris | New York Magazine | March 3, 2020 | 21 minutes (5,271 words)
马尔科姆·哈里斯 |纽约杂志 | 2020 年 3 月 3 日 | 21 分钟（5,271 字）
The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change.
化石燃料公司期望从气候变化中获利。
I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.
我参加了一个私人计划会议并做了笔记。
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## The Storykiller and His Sentence: Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein
## 故事杀手和他的判决：丽贝卡·索尔尼特谈哈维·韦恩斯坦
Rebecca Solnit | LitHub | March 12, 2020 | 11 minutes (2,765 words)
丽贝卡·索尔尼特 | LitHub| 2020 年 3 月 12 日 | 11 分钟（2,765 字）
Rebecca Solnit considers Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence through the lens of storytelling, and who gets to do it now that at least two men who were “in charge of stories” — Weinstein and Woody Allen — have lost so much of their power, and women are now finding their voices.
丽贝卡·索尔尼特（Rebecca Solnit）从讲故事的角度思考了哈维·韦恩斯坦（Harvey Weinstein）的 23 年监禁，以及现在谁能做到这一点，因为至少有两位“负责故事”的男人——韦恩斯坦和伍迪·艾伦——已经失去了如此多的权力，而女性现在正在寻找自己的声音。
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## The Wing Is a Women’s Utopia.
## The Wing 是女性的乌托邦。
Unless You Work There.
除非你在那里工作。
Amanda Hess | The New York Times Magazine | March 17, 2020 | 20 minutes (5,140 words)
阿曼达·赫斯|纽约时报杂志 | 2020 年 3 月 17 日 | 20 分钟（5,140 字）
Surprise: women’s empowerment harnessed to American-style capitalism delivers more inequality, and an Instagram wall can’t fix it.
令人惊讶的是：美国式资本主义所赋予的女性权力带来了更多的不平等，而 Instagram 墙无法解决这个问题。
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## What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick with Coronavirus
## 当我丈夫感染冠状病毒时我学到了什么
Jessica Lustig | The New York Times Magazine | March 24, 2020 | 12 minutes (3,227 words)
杰西卡·勒斯蒂格 |纽约时报杂志 | 2020 年 3 月 24 日 | 12 分钟（3,227 个字）
“You shouldn’t stay here,” he says, but he gets more frightened as night comes, dreading the long hours of fever and soaking sweats and shivering and terrible aches.
“你不应该留在这里，”他说，但随着夜幕降临，他变得更加害怕，害怕长时间的发烧、大汗淋漓、颤抖和剧烈的疼痛。
“This thing grinds you like a mortar,” he says.
“这东西像迫击炮一样碾压你，”他说。
## — April —
## — 四月 —
## If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode
## 如果我写了冠状病毒剧集
Maria Elena Fernandez | Vulture | April 2, 2020 | 27 minutes (6,812 words)
玛丽亚·埃琳娜·费尔南德斯 |秃鹫| 2020 年 4 月 2 日 | 27 分钟（6,812 字）
“Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.”
“蒂娜·菲 (Tina Fey)、迈克·舒尔 (Mike Schur) 和另外 35 名电视编剧探讨了他们的角色在大流行病中会做什么。”
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## The Last Train Trip Before Everything Changed
## 一切改变之前的最后一次火车旅行
Lauren Markham | LitHub | April 6, 2020 | 10 minutes (2,529 words)
劳伦·马卡姆 | LitHub| 2020 年 4 月 6 日 | 10 分钟（2,529 字）
On solitude, snow, and finding reasons to write.
关于孤独，关于雪，以及寻找写作的理由。
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## The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
## 一位才华横溢的年轻程序员的毁灭性衰落
Sandra Upson | Wired | April 14, 2020 | 28 minutes (7,112 words)
桑德拉·厄普森 |有线| 2020 年 4 月 14 日 | 28 分钟（7,112 字）
“Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being.
“李·霍洛威 (Lee Holloway) 创办了互联网安全公司 Cloudflare。
But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable — for a long time, no one could make sense of it.”
但后来他变得冷漠、疏远、不可预测——很长一段时间，没有人能理解这一点。”
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## My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years.
## 20 年来，我的餐厅就是我的生活。
Does the World Need It Anymore?
世界还需要它吗？
Gabrielle Hamilton | New York Times Magazine | April 23, 2020 | 23 minutes (5,831 words)
加布里埃尔·汉密尔顿 |纽约时报杂志 | 2020 年 4 月 23 日 | 23 分钟（5,831 字）
“Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place for it in the New York of the future.”
“被迫关闭 Prune，我一直在重新审视我最初的梦想——并想知道它在未来的纽约是否还能有一席之地。”
## — May —
## — 五月 —
## Inside the Nightmare Voyage of the Diamond Princess
## 钻石公主号的噩梦之旅
Doug Bock Clark | GQ | April 30, 2020 | 34 minutes (8,638 words)
道格·博克·克拉克 |智群 | 2020 年 4 月 30 日 | 34 分钟（8,638 字）
“At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, one ill-fated cruise ship became a symbol for the panic and confusion that would soon engulf the globe.
“在冠状病毒爆发之初，一艘命运多舛的游轮成为了很快席卷全球的恐慌和混乱的象征。
Doug Bock Clark uncovers what two harrowing weeks trapped aboard the ‘Diamond Princess’ felt like — for unsuspecting tourists, for frightened crew members, even for the captain himself.”
道格·博克·克拉克（Doug Bock Clark）揭示了被困在“钻石公主号”上两周的痛苦感受——对于毫无戒心的游客、受到惊吓的船员，甚至对于船长本人来说。”
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## Inside the Early Days of China’s Coronavirus Coverup
## 中国对冠状病毒掩盖的早期内部
Shawn Yuan | Wired | May 1, 2020 | 14 minutes (3,696 words)
肖恩·袁 |有线| 2020 年 5 月 1 日 | 14 分钟（3,696 字）
“The dawn of a pandemic — as seen through the news and social media posts that vanished from China’s internet.”
“大流行的黎明——从中国互联网上消失的新闻和社交媒体帖子可以看出。”
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## Putin Is Well On His Way to Stealing the Next Election
## 普京即将在下次选举中大获全胜
Franklin Foer | The Atlantic | May 11, 2020 | 30 minutes (7,634 words)
富兰克林·福尔 |大西洋 | 2020 年 5 月 11 日 | 30 分钟（7,634 字）
Russia wants to eradicate democracy, and they’re doing a fine job of it, by pitting people against one another, sowing discord, misinformation, chaos, and doubt about election integrity.
俄罗斯想要根除民主，他们做得很好，他们让人们相互对立，散布不和、错误信息、混乱和对选举公正性的怀疑。
The problem, that plays right into the hands of the Russians, is that the United States is already too divided to do much about it.
正中俄罗斯人下怀的问题是，美国已经分裂得太厉害，无法对此采取太多行动。
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## We Can’t Comprehend This Much Sorrow
## 我们无法理解如此多的悲伤
Teju Cole | The New York Times Magazine | May 18, 2020 | 9 minutes (2,411 words)
特朱·科尔 |纽约时报杂志 | 2020 年 5 月 18 日 | 9 分钟（2,411 字）
“History’s first draft is almost always wrong — but we still have to try and write it.”
“历史的初稿几乎总是错误的——但我们仍然必须尝试书写它。”
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## The Evidence Against Her
## 对她不利的证据
Justine van der Leun | GEN | May 27, 2020 | 44 minutes (11,071 words)
贾斯汀·范德伦 |根 | 2020 年 5 月 27 日 | 44 分钟（11,071 字）
He raped and tortured her for years.
他强奸并折磨了她多年。
He had a gun; he “showed her diagrams of the human brain…
他有一把枪；他“向她展示了人类大脑的图表......
the place that would allow her to live but without speech or memory.
这个地方可以让她生活，但没有语言或记忆。
‘Wouldn’t that be convenient, he said.'” She shot him, to save herself and her kids.
“他说，这不是很方便吗？”她开枪打死了他，以拯救自己和孩子。
And according to the prosecutor, jury, and judge, she’s a premeditated murderer who deserves her 20-year prison sentence.
根据检察官、陪审团和法官的说法，她是一名有预谋的杀人犯，应被判处 20 年监禁。
## — June —
## — 六月 —
## The American Nightmare
## 美国的噩梦
Ibram X.
伊布拉姆·X.
Kendi | The Atlantic | June 1, 2020 | 10 minutes (2,595 words)
肯迪|大西洋 | 2020 年 6 月 1 日 | 10 分钟（2,595 字）
“Either there is something superior or inferior about the races, something dangerous and deathly about black people, and black people are the American nightmare; or there is something wrong with society, something dangerous and deathly about racist policy, and black people are experiencing the American nightmare.” One is a racist myth; the other, antiracist truth.
“要么种族有什么优劣，黑人有什么危险和致命的东西，黑人就是美国的噩梦；要么社会有问题，种族主义政策有危险和致命的东西，黑人正在经历美国的噩梦。”其一是种族主义神话；其二是种族主义神话。另一个是反种族主义的事实。
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## Why Minneapolis Was the Breaking Point
## 为什么明尼阿波利斯是转折点
Wesley Lowery | The Atlantic | June 10, 2020 | 19 minutes (4,880 words)
韦斯利·洛厄里 |大西洋 | 2020 年 6 月 10 日 | 19 分钟（4,880 字）
“Black men and women are still dying across the country.
“全国各地的黑人男女仍在死亡。
The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.” Wesley Lowery writes about what he’s learned about police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the breaking point we’ve reached.
美国警察权力没有做出任何让步。”韦斯利·洛厄里 (Wesley Lowery) 讲述了他对警察暴力、“黑人生命也是命”运动以及我们所达到的临界点的了解。
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## “Somebody’s Gotta Help Me”
##“有人必须帮助我”
Lucas Waldron, Nadia Sussman, Thalia Beaty, Ryan GabrielsonProPublica | June 16, 2020 | 22 minutes (5,543 words)
卢卡斯·沃尔德伦 (Lucas Waldron)、纳迪亚·萨斯曼 (Nadia Sussman)、塔利亚·贝蒂 (Thalia Beaty)、瑞安·加布里埃尔森 (Ryan Gabrielson)ProPublica | 2020 年 6 月 16 日 | 22 分钟（5,543 字）
“But abuse by law enforcement inside jails remains largely out of sight and harder to document.” Phillip Garcia was in psychiatric crisis.
“但监狱内执法部门的虐待行为在很大程度上仍然是看不见的，也更难记录。”菲利普·加西亚陷入精神危机。
In jail and in the hospital, guards responded with violent force and restrained him for almost 20 hours, until he died.
在监狱和医院，狱警以暴力回应，将他束缚了近20个小时，直至他死亡。
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## Twelve Minutes and a Life
## 十二分钟和一生
Mitchell S.
米切尔·S。
Jackson | Runner’s World | June 18, 2020 | 24 minutes (6,150 words)
杰克逊 |跑步者的世界 | 2020 年 6 月 18 日 | 24 分钟（6,150 字）
White people are allowed to go jogging.
白人可以慢跑。
When Ahmaud Marquez Arbery did, he got lynched.
当艾哈迈德·马尔克斯·阿贝里这样做时，他被处以私刑。
“That Maud’s jogging made him the target of hegemonic white forces is a certain failure of America.
“莫德的慢跑使他成为白人霸权势力的目标，这无疑是美国的失败。
Check the books—slave passes, vagrancy laws, Harvard’s Skip Gates arrested outside his own crib—Blacks ain’t never owned the same freedom of movement as whites.”
查一下书——奴隶通行证、流浪法、哈佛的斯基普·盖茨在自己的婴儿床外被捕——黑人从来没有像白人一样享有行动自由。”
## — July —
## — 七月 —
## The Cursed Platoon
## 被诅咒的小队
Greg Jaffe | The Washington Post | July 2, 2020 | 40 minutes (10,000 words)
格雷格·贾菲 |华盛顿邮报 | 2020 年 7 月 2 日 | 40 分钟（10,000 字）
“Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road.
“克林特·洛兰斯指挥他的排才三天，就命令部下杀死停在土路上的三名阿富汗人。
A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed.
随后被定罪为二级谋杀并获得赦免。
Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump.
如今，洛兰斯被特朗普总统誉为英雄。
His troops have suffered a very different fate.”
他的部队却遭遇了截然不同的命运。”
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## Unlucky Charms: The Rise and Fall of Billion-Dollar Jewelry Empire Alex and Ani
## Unlucky Charms：十亿美元珠宝帝国的兴衰 Alex 和 Ani
Aaron Gell | Marker | July 8, 2020 | 43 minutes (10,868 words)
亚伦·盖尔 |标记| 2020 年 7 月 8 日 | 43 分钟（10,868 字）
“Astrology, private equity, a $1.1 billion gender discrimination lawsuit, and a precariously built bangle behemoth.”
“占星术、私募股权、价值 11 亿美元的性别歧视诉讼，以及摇摇欲坠的手镯庞然大物。”
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## How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic
## 特朗普如何帮助大亨利用这一流行病
Jane Mayer | The New Yorker | July 13, 2020 | 34 minutes (8,530 words)
简·梅尔 |纽约客 | 2020 年 7 月 13 日 | 34 分钟（8,530 字）
“The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the president’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.”
“美国最大家禽公司之一背后的神秘巨头，也是总统的最大捐助者之一，正在无情地利用冠状病毒危机和他的巨额财富来剥夺工人的保护。”
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## Where Will Everyone Go?
## 每个人都会去哪里？
Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica | July 23, 2020 | 38 minutes (9,536 words)
亚伯拉罕·卢斯特加滕 | ProPublica | 2020 年 7 月 23 日 | 38 分钟（9,536 字）
As temperatures and sea levels rise, populations flee from regions that are no longer livable, and the United States and other nations choose to build walls and keep migrants out, where will the world’s climate refugees go?
随着气温和海平面上升，人们逃离不再适宜居住的地区，美国和其他国家选择修建隔离墙将移民拒之门外，世界上的气候难民将何去何从？
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## Barack Obama’s Eulogy for John Lewis
## 巴拉克·奥巴马对约翰·刘易斯的悼词
Barack Obama | The Atlantic | July 30, 2020 | 14 minutes (3,641 words)
巴拉克·奥巴马 |大西洋 | 2020 年 7 月 30 日 | 14 分钟（3,641 字）
“He, as much as anyone in our history, brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals.”
“他和我们历史上的任何人一样，让这个国家更接近我们的最高理想。”
## — August —
## — 八月 —
## Flimsy plastic knives, a single microwave, and empty popcorn bags: How 50 inmates inside a Michigan prison prepared a feast to celebrate the life of George Floyd
## 脆弱的塑料刀、一个微波炉和空爆米花袋：密歇根监狱内的 50 名囚犯如何准备一顿盛宴来庆祝乔治·弗洛伊德的一生
Tana Ganeva | The Counter | August 6, 2020 | 13 minutes (3,397 words)
塔娜·加内瓦 |柜台 | 2020 年 8 月 6 日 | 13 分钟（3,397 个字）
Michael Thompson found a way to mark George Floyd’s death inside prison: a meal shared with other inmates to honor him.
迈克尔·汤普森（Michael Thompson）找到了一种纪念乔治·弗洛伊德（George Floyd）在监狱内去世的方法：与其他囚犯共享一顿饭以纪念他。
“After they returned their cells, each man sat in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
“他们返回牢房后，每个人都沉默地坐了 8 分 46 秒。
And then they began to eat.”
然后他们就开始吃饭了。”
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## Broken Glass, Blood, and Anguish: Beirut After the Blast
## 破碎的玻璃、鲜血和痛苦：爆炸后的贝鲁特
Seema Jilani | New York Review of Books | August 18, 2020 | 11 minutes (2,757 words)
西玛·吉拉尼 |纽约书评| 2020 年 8 月 18 日 | 11 分钟（2,757 个字）
Pediatrician Seema Jilani recounts the immediate aftermath of the Beirut explosion: “As I emerged from the car, the air was still whirring with debris.
儿科医生西玛·吉拉尼 (Seema Jilani) 讲述了贝鲁特爆炸的后果：“当我从车里出来时，空气中仍然弥漫着碎片。
Everything was eerily silent.
一切都静得可怕。
But it wasn’t.
但事实并非如此。
I just couldn’t hear anything.
我只是听不到任何声音。
My ears were ringing.
我的耳朵嗡嗡作响。
The street scene in front of me, almost two blocks from my apartment and walking distance from the epicenter of the blast, was a silent horror film.”
我面前的街景距离我的公寓几乎有两个街区，距离爆炸中心仅几步之遥，就像一部无声恐怖电影。”
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## The Life Breonna Taylor Lived, in the Words of Her Mother
## 用她母亲的话来说，布伦娜·泰勒的生活
Ta-Nehisi Coates | Vanity Fair | August 24, 2020 | 26 minutes (6,720 words)
塔-内西斯·科茨 |名利场| 2020 年 8 月 24 日 | 26 分钟（6,720 字）
“She started walking early—like at nine months, so she was just a little person early.
“她很早就开始走路了——比如九个月大的时候，所以她只是一个小人。
I always say she had an old soul.
我总是说她有一个古老的灵魂。
She liked listening to the blues with my mother.
她喜欢和我妈妈一起听布鲁斯音乐。
She would sing me the blues.
她会给我唱布鲁斯音乐。
It was hilarious.
太搞笑了。
She used to sing ‘Last Two Dollars.’ That was her song.”
她曾经唱过《最后两块钱》。那是她的歌。”
## — September —
## — 九月 —
## Breonna Taylor’s Life Was Changing.
## 布雷娜·泰勒的生活正在改变。
Then the Police Came to Her Door.
然后警察来到她家门口。
Rukmini Callimachi | The New York Times | September 3, 2020 | 26 minutes (6,500 words)
鲁克米尼·卡利玛奇 |纽约时报 | 2020 年 9 月 3 日 | 26 分钟（6,500 字）
Two months before she was killed in her home in Louisville, Breonna Taylor tweeted triumphantly, “2020 deff gonna be my year WATCH!”
布伦娜·泰勒 (Breonna Taylor) 在路易斯维尔的家中被杀的两个月前，她在推特上得意地写道：“2020 年将是我的一年，注意！”
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## The New Reconstruction
## 新的重建
Adam Serwer | The Atlantic | September 8, 2020 | 30 minutes (7,613 words)
亚当·塞尔维尔 |大西洋 | 2020 年 9 月 8 日 | 30 分钟（7,613 字）
“There has never been an anti-racist majority in American history; there may be one today in the racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of voters radicalized by the abrupt transition from the hope of the Obama era to the cruelty of the Trump age.
“美国历史上从来没有出现过反种族主义的多数派；今天，在种族和社会经济多样化的选民联盟中可能会有一个，因为从奥巴马时代的希望突然转向特朗普时代的残酷，而变得激进。
All political coalitions are eventually torn apart by their contradictions, but America has never seen a coalition quite like this.”
所有的政治联盟最终都会因其矛盾而四分五裂，但美国从未见过这样的联盟。”
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## Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration
## 气候变化将迫使美国新一轮移民
Abrahm Lustgarten | ProPublica | September 15, 2020 | 24 minutes (6,133 words)
亚伯拉罕·卢斯特加滕 | ProPublica | 2020 年 9 月 15 日 | 24 分钟（6,133 个字）
“Wildfires rage in the West.
“野火在西部肆虐。
Hurricanes batter the East.
飓风袭击东部。
Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation.
干旱和洪水给全国造成损失。
Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?”
重灾区的生活越来越难以为继，但如果那里的人搬走了，大家会去哪里？”
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## The Election That Could Break America
## 可能摧毁美国的选举
Barton Gellman | The Atlantic | September 23, 2020 | 38 minutes (9,621 words)
巴顿·格尔曼 |大西洋 | 2020 年 9 月 23 日 | 38 分钟（9,621 字）
“If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result.
“如果票数接近，唐纳德·特朗普很容易让选举陷入混乱并颠覆结果。
Who will stop him?”
谁来阻止他？”
## — October —
## — 十月 —
## “Civil War Is Here, Right Now”
##“内战就在这里”
Mike Giglio | The Atlantic | October 1, 2020 | 27 minutes (6,950 words)
迈克·吉利奥 |大西洋 | 2020 年 10 月 1 日 | 27 分钟（6,950 字）
“A Pro-Trump militant group has recruited thousands of police, soldiers, and veterans.
“一个支持特朗普的激进组织招募了数千名警察、士兵和退伍军人。
An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day.”
大西洋月刊的一项调查揭示了他们是谁以及他们在选举日可能会做什么。”
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## Only One of Their Children Survived Sandy Hook.
## 他们的孩子只有一个在桑迪胡克幸存。
Now School Posed a New Threat: The Virus.
现在学校带来了新的威胁：病毒。
John Woodrow Cox | The Washington Post | October 7, 2020 | 19 minutes (4,762 words)
约翰·伍德罗·考克斯 | 约翰·伍德罗·考克斯华盛顿邮报 | 2020 年 10 月 7 日 | 19 分钟（4,762 字）
“After losing their 6-year-old daughter in a mass shooting, can Isaiah Marquez-Greene’s parents bear to let him return to high school during a pandemic?”
“在大规模枪击事件中失去了 6 岁的女儿后，以赛亚·马克斯·格林的父母能忍受让他在疫情期间重返高中吗？”
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## The True Story of the Antifa Invasion of Forks, Washington
## Antifa 入侵华盛顿福克斯的真实故事
Lauren Smiley | Wired | October 8, 2020 | 36 minutes (9,000 words)
劳伦·史迈利 |有线| 2020 年 10 月 8 日 | 36 分钟（9,000 字）
A false report on Twitter about violent leftist activists traveling by bus exploded into a call to arms.
推特上关于暴力左派活动人士乘公共汽车出行的虚假报道引发了一场武装号召。
Then a bus, carrying a family and two dogs, rolled into a remote Northwestern town best known as the setting for the Twilight series.
然后，一辆载着一家人和两只狗的公共汽车驶进了一个偏远的西北小镇，该小镇因《暮光之城》系列的取景地而闻名。
Chaos ensued.
混乱随之而来。
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## Dying Inside
## 死在里面
Peter Eisler, Linda So, Jason Szep, Grant Smith, Ned Parker | Reuters | October 16, 2020 | 19 minutes (4,936 words)
彼得·艾斯勒、琳达·苏、杰森·斯泽普、格兰特·史密斯、内德·帕克路透社 | 2020 年 10 月 16 日 | 19 分钟（4,936 字）
Nearly 5,000 inmates have died in U.S. jails without getting their day in court.
近 5,000 名囚犯在没有上法庭的情况下就在美国监狱中死亡。
Reuters investigates the fatalities in America’s biggest jails.
路透社调查了美国最大监狱的死亡人数。
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## What to Do About Ahav?
## 对于 Ahav 该怎么办？
Hannah Dreier | The Washington Post | October 24, 2020 | 18 minutes (4,600 words)
汉娜·德雷尔 |华盛顿邮报 | 2020 年 10 月 24 日 | 18 分钟（4,600 字）
“A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.”
“在疫情大流行和种族动荡加剧的时期，一位母亲为拯救一名患有精神疾病的 11 岁黑人男孩而奋斗。”
## — November —
## — 十一月 —
## Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose
## 为什么特朗普输不起
Jane Mayer | The New Yorker | November 1, 2020 | 24 minutes (6,220 words)
简·梅尔 |纽约客 | 2020 年 11 月 1 日 | 24 分钟（6,220 字）
“The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits.
“总统经历了一次弹劾、二十六项不当性行为指控以及估计四千起诉讼。
That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.”
如果乔·拜登获胜，这种好运很可能会结束，甚至可能是残酷的。”
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## The El Paso Experiment
## 埃尔帕索实验
Melissa del Bosque | The Intercept | November 1, 2020 | 27 minutes (6,900 words)
梅丽莎·德尔·博斯克 | 梅丽莎·德尔·博斯克拦截| 2020 年 11 月 1 日 | 27 分钟（6,900 字）
“A public defender’s lonely fight against family separation.”
“一名公设辩护人与家庭分离的孤独斗争。”
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## The Last Children of Down Syndrome
## 最后一批患有唐氏综合症的孩子
Sarah Zhang | The Atlantic | November 18, 2020 | 31 minutes (7,888 words)
张莎拉 |大西洋 | 2020 年 11 月 18 日 | 31 分钟（7,888 个字）
In 2019, only 18 babies in Denmark were born with Down syndrome.
2019年，丹麦只有18名婴儿出生时患有唐氏综合症。
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t.
产前检测正在改变谁出生和谁不出生。
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## ‘It’s a National Tragedy’: What a Devastating Covid-19 Outbreak at a California Slaughterhouse Reveals About the Federal Government’s Failed Pandemic Response
##“这是一场国家悲剧”：加州屠宰场爆发的一场毁灭性的 Covid-19 疫情揭示了联邦政府在应对流行病方面的失败
Nick Roberts, Rosa Amanda Tuirán | The Counter | November 24, 2020 | 22 minutes (5,691 words)
尼克·罗伯茨、罗莎·阿曼达·图兰 |柜台 | 2020 年 11 月 24 日 | 22 分钟（5,691 字）
“In the face of an unprecedented public health crisis, the federal agency responsible for workplace safety has essentially allowed meatpackers to regulate themselves—leading to chaos, confusion, and fear in facilities across the country.”
“面对前所未有的公共卫生危机，负责工作场所安全的联邦机构基本上允许肉类加工商进行自我监管，导致全国各地的工厂陷入混乱、混乱和恐惧。”
## — December —
## — 十二月 —
## The Inside Story of Michigan’s Fake Voter Fraud Scandal
## 密歇根州假选民欺诈丑闻的内幕
Tim Alberta | Politico | November 24, 2020 | 29 minutes (7,400 words)
蒂姆·艾伯塔 |政治 | 2020 年 11 月 24 日 | 29 分钟（7,400 字）
“How a state that was never in doubt became a ‘national embarrassment’ and a symbol of the Republican Party’s fealty to Donald Trump.”
“一个从未受到质疑的州如何成为‘全国性的耻辱’，并成为共和党效忠唐纳德·特朗普的象征。”
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## Visible Men: Black Fathers Talk About Losing Sons to Police Brutality
## 可见的男人：黑人父亲谈论因警察暴行而失去儿子
Mosi Secret | GQ | December 10, 2020 | 28 minutes (7,072 words)
莫西的秘密 |智群 | 2020 年 12 月 10 日 | 28 分钟（7,072 字）
“We asked the fathers and father figures of Michael Brown, Terence Crutcher, Daniel Prude, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake to reflect on the violence that forever altered their families’ lives—and what it means to raise a Black man in America.”
“我们请迈克尔·布朗、特伦斯·克拉彻、丹尼尔·普鲁德、雷沙德·布鲁克斯、乔治·弗洛伊德和雅各布·布莱克等父亲和父亲人物反思一下永远改变了他们家庭生活的暴力行为，以及在美国抚养一个黑人意味着什么。”
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## Tethered to the Machine
## 拴在机器上
Lizzie Presser | ProPublica | December 15, 2020 | 31 minutes (7,785 words)
莉齐·普雷瑟 | ProPublica | 2020 年 12 月 15 日 | 31 分钟（7,785 个字）
“For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way.
“多年来，贾马库斯·克鲁斯一直试图获得新的肾脏，但企业医疗保健阻碍了他的发展。
He needed dialysis to stay alive.
他需要透析才能维持生命。
He couldn’t miss a session, not even during a pandemic.”
他不能缺席任何一场会议，即使是在大流行期间。”
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