![Waclawa ‘Joanne’ Zak, a ‘My Life, My Story’ participant who fought in the Polish resistance during World War II, in Oxford, Wis., where she now lives, September 15, 2020. Narrative medicine is now taught in some form at roughly 80% of medical schools in the United States – students are trained in ‘sensitive interviewing skills’ and the art of ‘radical listening’ as ways to enhance the interactions between doctors and their patients. [Andy Manis/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SCI-DOCTORS-LISTENING-1-768x480.jpg)
The pandemic has been a time of painful social isolation for many. Few places can be as isolating as hospitals, where patients are surrounded by strangers, subject to invasive tests and attached to an assortment of beeping and gurgling machines.
![Liat Kaplan questions what she was trying to accomplish with her anonymous Tumblr. [Paige Stampatori/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/PROBLEMATIC_BLOG-320x200.jpg)
If you were on Tumblr in the early 2010s, you may remember a blog called Your Fave Is Problematic. If not, its content should still sound familiar to you.
![A man in a patriotic shirt during the ‘Salute to America’ event on the Fourth of July on the National Mall in Washington, July 4, 2019. [Damon Winter/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/friedman_web-320x200.jpg)
In the last six months I’ve heard one phrase more often than I had in my previous 66 years: “Can you believe this is happening in America?” As in: “I spent the whole day hunting online for a drugstore to get a Covid vaccination. Can you believe this is happening in America?” “Fellow Americans ransacked […]
![Cartoonist Julien Berjeaut, who reimagined the classic French-Belgian comic book series about the cowboy Lucky Luke, adding a Black hero based on a pioneering deputy US marshal, at home in Paris, February. 12. For the first time in the Lucky Luke comic book series, one of a handful of classics that, for generations, had been an integral part of growing up in France and other francophone countries, Black characters have full-fledged roles and are drawn without the racist depictions that marred the genre. [Andrea Mantovan/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/comic_web-320x200.jpg)
PARIS – A few years ago, Julien Berjeaut was a cartoonist coming off a hit series when he received the rarest of offers in the French-speaking world: taking over a comic book classic, Lucky Luke.
![A photo provided by NASA, shows members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover team watch in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, as the first images arrive moments after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars. [Bill Ingalls/NASA via The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nasa_rover_web-320x200.jpg)
NASA safely landed a new robotic rover on Mars on Thursday, beginning its most ambitious effort in decades to directly study whether there was ever life on the now barren red planet.
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The lack of power and safe water for millions of people in Texas may be compounded on Thursday by a band of foul weather stretching from the Rio Grande to New York.
![President Joe Biden speaks during a CNN town hall event at The Pabst Theater in Milwaukee on Tuesday. [Doug Mills/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/biden_web-320x200.jpg)
WASHINGTON – In his first official trip away from Washington since taking office, President Joe Biden on Tuesday offered reassurance to Americans about the availability of the coronavirus vaccines and optimism that his $1.9 trillion relief bill was the kind of ambitious plan that could restore the US economy.
Blue Lives Matter is officially dead. People may continue to chant and post the slogan, but it is dead. Senate Republicans killed it last week when they voted to acquit Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection that left one officer dead and 138 injured. (Two officers who responded to the insurrection later died by suicide.)
PANJWAI, Afghanistan – The Taliban have been encroaching on key cities around Afghanistan for months, threatening to drive the country to its breaking point and push the Biden administration into a no-win situation just as the United States’ longest war is supposed to be coming to an end.
Three members of the US Congress who are of Greek descent and were at the US Capitol in one of the historic building’s darkest moments, talk to Kathimerini about their ordeal, the political implications, and the day after.
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