Announcing that he was putting the nation on a “double-red threat level,” Donald J. Trump warned the American people on Tuesday to be on the lookout for terrorists posing as peaceful seventy-five-year-olds. “One of these terrorists was already identified by the police in Buffalo,” Trump said. “They may be coming to your town next.” Trump listed some “telltale signs of Antifa,” in order to help Americans identify septuagenarian terrorists in their midst.

The great evil of American slavery wasn’t the involuntary servitude; it was the fiction that black people aren’t as good as white people, and aren’t the equals of white people, and are less evolved, less human, less capable, less worthy, less deserving than white people.

“In this gathering, people were hugging, and eating from the same trays,” Pálmason told me. “So the decision was made—all of them go into quarantine.” If you were returning to Iceland from overseas, you also got a call: put yourself in quarantine

Perhaps owing to these gonzo genetics, apples are remarkably susceptible to disease and rot. Their tender skin and light flesh are a haven for small creatures. Their trees embrace myriad molds, viruses, and fungi: apple scab, black pox, southern blight, union necrosis. For farmers and hobby gardeners, the business of apple-growing is not so much aiding the fruits in their growth as scrambling to ward off their demise.

More than seventeen thousand National Guard troops have been deployed—more soldiers than are currently occupying Iraq and Afghanistan—to put down the rebellion. More than ten thousand people have been arrested; more than twelve people, mostly African-American men, have been killed.

The Ingrams are accused of “procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception”—the security in this case being the million-pound prize money offered to winners of the TV game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”

Milley’s appearance breached the long-standing Washington norm that senior officers don’t visit the White House dressed for combat. More important, it violated one of the oldest traditions of the American constitutional order: soldiers stay out of politics.

Reading from scripts is part of Goodell’s job. He is the representative of the league’s thirty-two owners, and he serves as their mouthpiece. The owners do not seem to mind that Goodell’s delivery is wooden, or that the league has stumbled from controversy to controversy during his tenure, or that he is unpopular enough with the public that he is routinely booed during the N.F.L. draft. They don’t mind, clearly, because Goodell has been good for business: in 2018 the league generated around sixteen billion dollars in total revenue

 At eight o’clock, she joined a Zoom call; the lead artist explained that Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., had commissioned eight artists to paint a mural of fifty-foot-high letters spelling out “Black Lives Matter” across two blocks of the street leading to the White House.

If America is to move beyond its troubled and conflict-laden relationship with its police, it must have a broader, serious discussion about what democratic policing can and should be. What are police for?