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Today on Post Reports, Elise Viebeck on the anxieties around voting by mail ahead of November. Phil Rucker explains how the White House failed to contain the coronavirus as the summer cases crept up. And Shibani Mahtani reports on the crackdown in Hong Kong. Read more: Anxieties about mail ballots were on full display in the latest round of primaries, highlighting worries for fall. The lost days of summer: How Trump fell short in containing the virus. Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law as political structures unravel. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports, Renae Merle reports on why the expiration of rent relief will trigger a wave of evictions in at-risk communities. Dino Grandoni explains the fight to keep the lights on in households across the country. And, Teddy Amenabar on how to read your coronavirus test results. Read more:Evictions are likely to skyrocket as jobs remain scarce. Black renters will be hard hit. And landlords are pushing back on a federal moratorium.Congress faces pressure as states lift electricity shut-off bans during the coronavirus crisis. From swabs to antibodies: How to understand your coronavirus test results.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports: Tracy Jan on how the pandemic is exacerbating the effects of gentrification in cities like Los Angeles. From Linah Mohammad and Hira Qureshi, how the Hulu series “Ramy” tackles taboos, and why it’s gotten criticism from the Muslim community. And Brittany Renee Mayes explains why Black-owned bookstores are seeing a boom in orders of anti-racist literature.Read more:Ethnic enclaves are struggling to fight gentrification during the pandemic.The Hulu show “Ramy” tackles taboos. But it’s also gotten criticism from the Muslim community.Demand for anti-racist literature is up. Black bookstore owners are hoping it will last.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports, Sarah Dadouch brings us on the ground in Beirut, and Liz Sly reports on how the massive explosion there has thrown the city into deeper crisis. Columnist Jerry Brewer ruminates on how sports won’t be sports in the time of covid-19. And a Black doctor on how his scrubs are a form of armor.Read more:Shock turns to anger as Beirut assesses damage inflicted by massive explosion. Sports used to be an escape from the world. Now, they’re a window into it.A Black doctor on why he wears his scrubs everywhere now.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer 

Early on in the pandemic, we solicited queries from Post Reports listeners about covid-19. We received all kinds of responses — about masks, social distancing, food safety, testing, symptoms. And we received an email from one listener, Charlotte Cudd of Jacksonville, Fla., who was curious about whether people who die of covid-19 can still become organ donors. On today’s episode, we seek to answer her question — and we ask a few of our own.Surgeons perform first known U.S. lung transplant for covid-19 patientPatients are still delaying essential care out of fear of coronavirusThe Post’s View: Many die waiting for organs. The Trump administration could help.

Heather Long on the economy’s decline, Madhulika Sikka talks to “Indian Matchmaking” creator Smirti Mundhra. Plus, the “Can He Do That?” podcast examines why we do polling.Read more: We’re in a recession. If Congress fails to act, a lot of damage could be permanent.Netflix’s new hit “Indian Matchmaking” misses the full story on arranged marriageHow America votes is inherently unpredictable. So why do polling?

As countries around the world are emerging from lockdowns and cautiously returning to life as normal, it’s beginning to feel like most of the world is showing up to a post-pandemic celebration party where Americans are not invited. On today’s “Post Reports,” we ask the question: Where did the U.S. go wrong? What’s it like in places where the curve has successfully been flattened? Which countries are still struggling with covid-19? And how has the American failure in pandemic response shifted the way that the U.S. is viewed on the global stage?The crisis that shocked the world: America’s response to the coronavirusBeijing’s summer is more oppressive than usual, but most prefer the heat over the virusWith American tourists banned from Italy, Amalfi Coast workers are sliding into povertyBrazil ignored the warnings. Now, while other countries fret over a second coronavirus wave, it can’t get past its first.Coronavirus has weakened the West’s nationalists

In a newsroom, it’s rare that a question of whether to capitalize a word sparks intense discussion and debate. But in June, an issue of textual style became an urgent topic at The Washington Post: Should journalists begin capitalizing the word “Black” when used as a racial identifier? And if so … what does that mean for “White”? And “Brown”? “During my lifetime, this decision has come up a lot,” says Jesse Lewis, who leads The Post’s copy editing desk. “I was born in the ’50s, and at the time, ‘Negro’ was the preferred term. … Then you get to the late ’60s, early ’70s, ‘African-American’ was used as the term of discussion. There are things that happen in society that bring these issues to the forefront.” The story of how The Post’s final decision came about — with intense discussions within our newsroom and throughout the journalism industry — says a lot about our moment of racial reckoning, and the thoughtfulness and deliberation that moment demands. And the results can be controversial — especially when it came to the decision on whether to identify America’s White community with a capital W. “There’s a certain denialism to the idea that race isn’t an issue,” Lewis said, arguing for the need to classify White as a racial identity. “Writers have said, maybe you just uppercase ‘White’ because then it’s recognized, or Whites recognize it as a racial category, and they will have to deal with the consequences of being categorized by race.”Read more:The Washington Post memo on writing style changes for racial and ethnic identifiers: The Post will capitalize Black to identify groups that make up the African diaspora.Nell Irvin Painter: Why ‘White’ should be capitalized, too.Eve Ewing: I’m a Black Scholar Who Studies Race. Here’s Why I Capitalize ‘White.’Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Case for Capitalizing the B in Black.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Police officers around the country are fielding an increasing number of mental-health calls. Hannah Dreier documents what it’s been like for one officer who recently completed his department’s de-escalation training. And, Michelle Boorstein reports on how gospel choirs are adapting to the pandemic’s socially distanced reality.Read more:Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A White police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled Black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.Her gospel choir brought her closer to God. Now she can only hum from home.Can a president delay a U.S. election? The Washington Post’s ‘Can He Do That’ podcast unpacks the question.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Amber Phillips recaps Attorney General William P. Barr’s combative testimony on Capitol Hill. Peter Whoriskey uncovers how Johnson & Johnson companies used a “super poppy” to make narcotics for America’s most abused opioid pills. Plus, Michael Andor Brodeur on the sound of the pandemic. Read more:Takeaways from Attorney General Barr’s contentious congressional hearingJohnson & Johnson companies used a ‘super poppy’ to make narcotics for popular opioid pillsMusic for the pandemicSubscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer