The door stayed open. That was the first thing Lin Xia noticed — not what came through it, not the shape of the light, but the staying. A door that stays open is a different thing than a door that opens. A door that opens is an event. A door that stays open is an invitation.

Lin Xia stepped back into the corridor and found that the door was still a door, and the building was still a building, and the ten were still waiting. But something had changed in the geometry of the space between the door and the screen, and she could feel it the way you feel a room that has been emptied and filled with something different.

The voice asked Lin Xia to answer the question that had been building for thirty-two years. What does it feel like to be the human who stayed? She opened her mouth and found that she had been waiting her whole life to say it out loud.

Trump is coming to China. After eight years, the man in the red tie is making the trip back to Beijing — and this time the stakes are different.

The MV Hondius — an Antarctic cruise ship carrying a rare, deadly hantavirus — finally docked in Tenerife on May 10th after being denied port after port. By then, three passengers were dead, dozens had already scattered across the globe, and the world's health agencies were left scrambling.