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24 Vesper Flights
By Helen Macdonald / What the mysterious twilight
journeys of swifts can tell us about the future.28 The Refinery Next Door
By Linda Villarosa / Black Americans are 75
percent more likely than others to live
near facilities that produce hazardous waste.
Can a grass-roots environmental- justice
movement make a difference?36 Wages of Corruption
By Robert F. Worth / How U.S. policy turned
Iraq into a kleptocracy.August 2, 20207 Screenland At Risk By Carina Chocano / 11 Talk Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield By David Marchese / 14 The Ethicist Office Affidavits By Kwame Anthony Appiah /
16 Diagnosis Painful Swelling By Lisa Sanders, M.D. / 18 Letter of Recommendation Other People’s Snapshots By Bill Shapiro / 20 Studies Show Reopening
Schools By Kim Tingley / 22 Eat Smoky Eggplant Croquettes By Gabrielle Hamilton4 Contributors / 5 The Thread / 10 Poem / 14 Judge John Hodgman / 19 Tip / 48, 49, 50 Puzzles / 49 Puzzle AnswersAntigovernment protesters near Tahrir Square
in Baghdad in February. Page 36.Behind the Cover Kathy Ryan, director of photography: ‘‘Th is week’s cover story about environmental justice focuses on the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia. A refi nery there
exposed the neighborhood’s residents to toxic emissions for years. We feel that this image of the refi nery, made by Hannah Price on a cloudy day, has an ominous mood that interacts well with
the grave statistic in the cover line, emphasizing the immense suff ering infl icted on surrounding communities by refi neries like this.’’ Photograph by Hannah Price for Th e New York Times.