[aggregation-styles] Haaretz Did you see the American police officers? Did you see how they choked George Floyd to death in Minneapolis? Did you see Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck, pinning him down, with Floyd begging for his life until he died five minutes later? What racist police forces...
Obama: How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
[aggregation-styles] Medium As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change. Ultimately, it’s...
The Pandemic’s Second Stage Is Here — and It’s Getting Ugly
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Times Subscription In much of the developed world, the coronavirus curve is slowly flattening, but this obscures a tragic reality — the second phase of the crisis has begun as the novel virus spreads to the developing world. Ten of the top 12 countries with the largest...
Are Cars Protecting Los Angeles?
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription LOS ANGELES — I was born in New York and spent my formative years there, so waiting makes me crazy. I’m a jaywalker and I push elevator buttons more than once. I find the shortest line to anything. I walk fast and can drive...
Democrats Are Falling Into a Familiar Trap on China
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription As polls continue to show a steady lead for Joe Biden, President Trump is getting increasingly desperate. He has now committed himself to an election strategy that is centered on pointing the finger at China and its leader, Xi Jinping. Throughout January and February, Trump...
All Mail Voting Works – for Republicans
[aggregation-styles] Fox & Hounds For all the Republican howling of late about mail balloting, we have now had our first two all mail ballot elections in California, and guess what, Republicans won both: a State Senate seat in Riverside County and a congressional district in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties...
Experts Have Jobs. They Need to Understand Those Who Don’t.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription If anyone thought a global pandemic that has so far killed more than 80,000 Americans would override the country’s deep partisan divide, think again. It turns out that Democrats are significantly more likely than Republicans to believe that the pandemic is serious and to follow...
Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym?
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription As states begin to reopen, Americans are looking at any trip outside through the lens of contagion. Is it safe to go back to Starbucks? What about the gym? Nail salons are out of the question, right? The country faces an ugly trade-off. Keep...
How Mohammed Bin Salman Hit a Dead End in Washington
[aggregation-styles] Bloomberg Opinion Subscription There came a moment during Donald Trump’s April 2 phone call to Mohammed bin Salman when Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, apparently stunned by what the American president had just said, asked his aides to leave the room. No courtiers were present when...
The Real Scandal Isn’t What China Did to Us. It’s What We Did to Ourselves.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The Trump administration is trying to whip the country into an anti-Chinese frenzy because the novel coronavirus might have been accidentally transmitted from a laboratory rather than a wet market. But surely the larger question we should be asking is why we have been seeing...