With record-breaking coronavirus-related deaths overwhelming morgues and mortuaries in New York City, the public cemetery on Hart Island is seeing an increase in burials—from 24 a week to 24 a day.

When an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction revealed Janet Jackson’s nipple at the 2004 Superbowl, the internet was in an uproar. Outraged parents called their cable companies, complaints streamed ...