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But with opposition from the president, limited funding and time running out to shift to a new system, will that option be available to all voters? 32 The Medical Safety Net By Mattathias Schwartz / In New York City and around the country, community health centers are being pushed to the breaking point. Val Kilmer became radioactive in Hollywood after his early triumphs, but he now says: ‘‘I would’ve loved to have been on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as a regular. Fame wasn’t my Photograph by Jeff Minton for The New York Times York The New for Minton Jeff by Photograph priority, and I had it.’’ Page 18. 4 Contributors / 5 The Thread / 10 Poem / 12 Judge John Hodgman / 15 Tip / 44, 45, 46 Puzzles / 45 Puzzle Answers Behind the Cover Gail Bichler, design director: ‘‘Pablo Delcan conceived of an evocative photo illustration that refl ected the complicated, life-or-death realities of upholding democracy during a pandemic. Bobby Doherty photographed the mask and the sticker, familiar items that, shown together, emphasize the perils of holding in-person elections and the urgent need for an alternative.’’ Concept by Pablo Delcan. Photo illustration by Bobby Doherty. Copyright © 2020 The New York Times 3 Contributors Emily Bazelon ‘‘Can Democracy Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for the magazine Editor in Chief JAKE SILVERSTEIN Survive the Pandemic?’’ and the Truman Capote fellow for creative writing Deputy Editors JESSICA LUSTIG, BILL WASIK Page 26 and law at Yale Law School. Her book ‘‘Charged’’ Managing Editor ERIKA SOMMER won The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for 2020 Design Director GAIL BICHLER Director of Photography KATHY RYAN in the current-interest category. This week she Art Director BEN GRANDGENETT writes about preparing for the November election Features Editor ILENA SILVERMAN Politics Editor CHARLES HOMANS amid the pandemic. ‘‘I learned two things from Culture Editor SASHA WEISS my reporting I want to pass on: If you vote by Digital Director BLAKE WILSON Story Editors NITSUH ABEBE, mail, take a little care with your signature because SHEILA GLASER, it has to match the one the government has on CLAIRE GUTIERREZ, JAZMINE HUGHES, file for you,’’ Bazelon says. ‘‘And on election night, LUKE MITCHELL, prepare to wait patiently. If lots of people vote by DEAN ROBINSON, mail as expected, and it’s close, we may not WILLY STALEY At War Editor LAUREN KATZENBERG know the outcome for days, not because anything Assistant Managing Editor JEANNIE CHOI has gone wrong but because election officials Associate Editors IVA DIXIT, KYLE LIGMAN are counting mountains of absentee ballots.’’ Poetry Editor NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Staff Writers SAM ANDERSON, EMILY BAZELON, RONEN BERGMAN, TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER, Taffy Brodesser- ‘‘Th e Iceman in Winter,’’ Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for the C. J. CHIVERS, Akner Page 18 magazine who last wrote about Luke Perry, a star PAMELA COLLOFF, of ‘‘Beverly Hills, 90210.’’ Her novel, ‘‘Fleishman NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, SUSAN DOMINUS, Is in Trouble,’’ was longlisted for the National Book MAUREEN DOWD, Award for fiction. NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES, JENEEN INTERLANDI, MARK LEIBOVICH, JONATHAN MAHLER, DAVID MARCHESE, Carina Chocano Screenland, Carina Chocano is the author of the essay WESLEY MORRIS, Page 7 collection ‘‘You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, JENNA WORTHAM Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks and Other Mixed At War Reporter JOHN ISMAY New York Times Fellow JAKE NEVINS Messages’’ and a contributing writer for the Digital Art Director KATE LARUE magazine. She last wrote a Screenland column Designers CLAUDIA RUBÍN, RACHEL WILLEY about an advertisement for Dubai. Deputy Director of Photography JESSICA DIMSON Senior Photo Editor AMY KELLNER Photo Editor KRISTEN GEISLER Contributing Photo Editor DAVID CARTHAS Photo Assistant PIA PETERSON Jeff Minton ‘‘Th e Iceman in Winter,’’ Jeff Minton is a photographer who lives in Los Copy Chief ROB HOERBURGER Page 18 Angeles. He has previously photographed a Copy Editors HARVEY DICKSON, Buddy Holly hologram concert, art projects of the DANIEL FROMSON, MARGARET PREBULA, collective called Meow Wolf and curling teams ANDREW WILLETT in Florida for the magazine. Head of Research NANDI RODRIGO Research Editors ALEX CARP, CYNTHIA COTTS, JAMIE FISHER, LU FONG, Mattathias Schwartz ‘‘Th e Medical Safety Net,’’ Mattathias Schwartz is a contributing writer for TIM HODLER, Page 32 the magazine whose previous articles include ROBERT LIGUORI, profiles of the former C.I.A. director John Brennan LIA MILLER, STEVEN STERN, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. MARK VAN DE WALLE, BILL VOURVOULIAS Production Chief ANICK PLEVEN Production Editors PATTY RUSH, % Bob Ross HILARY SHANAHAN Dear Reader: Who Would 4 Managing Director, MARILYN McCAULEY 1 Specialty Printing Manager, Magazine Layout THOMAS GILLESPIE Win in a Fight? 1 Editorial Administrator LIZ GERECITANO BRINN 4% Rick Astley Editorial Assistant ALEXANDER SAMAHA The magazine publishes the results of a study conducted online in March 1 6 % No Response 2020 by The New York Times’s x NYT MAG LABS research-and-analytics department, 8 Editorial Director CAITLIN ROPER refl ecting the opinions of 2,250 Art Director DEB BISHOP subscribers who chose to participate. 1 Rick Moranis Senior Editor ADAM STERNBERGH % NYT for Kids Editor AMBER WILLIAMS Staff Editor MOLLY BENNET 3 Associate Editor LOVIA GYARKYE Designer NAJEEBAH AL-GHADBAN 8 Fred Rogers Project Manager LAUREN MCCARTHY 4 5.10.20 % The Thread Readers respond to the 4.26.2020 issue. music of the ice in the shaker glass and good conversation play again. RE: PRUNE Sara Fisher, Boston Gabrielle Hamilton wrote about closing her beloved Manhattan restaurant because of This writer’s raw and brutally candid the coronavirus. journey overwhelmed me with its passion. Her confl icting emotions about the chal- lenges of the pandemic, love for her staff THE STORY, and cynicism about the restaurant experi- ON TWITTER ence (and expense!) ensured that I felt the Must-read journey she was on. May she fi nd the heart essay with (and funds) to reopen Prune. I am eager to extraordinary be the benefi ciary of her love for her craft. photos. Barry Collodi, New York City @saadmohseni I have followed Gabrielle Hamilton since the years before the party scene arrived I read her memoir many years ago, and I in force; my neighborhood haunts; that want to thank her for laying bare the bru- always-busy falafel stand; the bars where tality of this situation from the perspective we sat and talked late into the night. Why of a business owner, chef and Prune family cry about a restaurant where I only ever matriarch. The loss, frustration and sadness had one meal? (And the staff was rude to must be overwhelming and yet, as always, boot, lecturing me that ‘‘brunch is meant The writer’s description of her feelings her writing is threaded with gratitude, to move’’ when I asked for a pastry and regarding the start-up of her restaurant, the perspective and humor, all of which are coff ee after fi nishing the best egg I’d ever growth to success, the decisions made to appreciated and presently in short supply. eaten.) Still, it opened a well of nostalgia for close Prune, feelings she had about asking In the midst of statistics and graphs a certain Lower Manhattan that is mostly for help, the ‘‘red tape’’ involved, the ‘‘spot charting death and hospitalizations, it is long gone and a well of grief over the tri- on’’ description of what the restaurant so important to read about the other loss als and transformations that the city I still scene has become — eye-opening to some- and grieving that is happening in homes love is going through. Thanks, Gabrielle. one who enjoys going to restaurants but and businesses around the world. Thank For that perfect egg. (With chickpeas! No knows nothing about the business details you to Hamilton for revealing the ‘‘other one served eggs with chickpeas in 2003!) involved. A sad tale, gripping in its telling. story’’ of this pandemic, and thank you to Diana Lyon, Milford, Pa. I sincerely hope Prune has a successful The Times for recognizing that the ‘‘other’’ rebirth, for Hamilton’s sake and for ours. losses — our businesses, our dreams and Bernie Strauss, Brewster, N.Y. accomplishments, our blood, sweat and RE: WHEN CORONAVIRUS STRIKES tears, our safety nets and sense of securi- A PRISON I’ve read many wonderful articles and sto- ty — are immense casualties of this war.