[aggregation-styles] Haaretz Israel’s "national emergency government," forged in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, is on the verge of creating an even greater national emergency if its annexation plan for the West Bank is implemented, as expected, this summer. Only massive international pressure can stop it. In teaming up with...
Op-Ed: Angelenos Like Their Single-Family Sprawl. the Coronavirus Proves Them Right
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription For nearly a century, Los Angeles’ urban form has infuriated urbanists who prefer a more concentrated model built around a single central core. Yet, in the COVID-19 pandemic, our much-maligned dispersed urban pattern has proven a major asset. Los Angeles and its surrounding suburbs have...
The Pandemic Road to Serfdom
[aggregation-styles] The American Mind Our Covid-era oligarchs are fitting us for feudalism. Even before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, America, like most higher-income countries, was already heading toward a neo-feudal future: massive inequality, ever-greater concentrations of power, and increasingly widespread embrace of a uniform (albeit secular) religion. The pandemic,...
Local Medical School on Fast-Track to Help Remedy Healthcare Shortage
Despite all the bounty that the Central Valley provides, it’s no secret that the region has long been plagued with a shortage of professional education opportunities, large-scale economic drivers and health care providers, specifically physicians. In one of the largest and richest states, Central Valley residents have grown accustomed to...
The Pandemic Is Too Important to Be Left to the Scientists
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription For all of us who have watched with mounting terror as President Trump offers the public a series of half-baked ideas and hunches on how to handle, treat and cure covid-19, the solution seems obvious: Follow the science. Trump’s detractors have taken up this mantra....
Welcome to Donald Trump’s Reelection Strategy
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Poor Brian Kemp — he obviously didn’t get the memo. When the Republican governor of Georgia announced Monday that he was going to begin opening up his state’s economy, he must have assumed that President Trump would lavish him with praise. After all, just days...
The US and China’s Blame Game Isn’t Saving Any Lives
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription President Trump now tells us China is to blame for the havoc that the novel coronavirus is wreaking across the world. He has blocked funding to the World Health Organization for colluding with China in keeping the facts hidden. To evaluate these claims, just keep...
Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting
[aggregation-styles] Medium Forge *Gaslighting, if you don’t know the word, is defined as manipulation into doubting your own sanity; as in, Carl made Mary think she was crazy, even though she clearly caught him cheating. He gaslit her. Pretty soon, as the country begins to figure out how we “open...
Why the Coronavirus Models Aren’t Totally Accurate
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Something important is happening as the coronavirus crisis continues: Estimates of its lethality keep going down. On March 31, the White House estimated that, even with social distancing policies in place, between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans would die of covid-19. Anthony S. Fauci recently indicated...
The Pandemic Will Accelerate History Rather Than Reshape It
[aggregation-styles] Foreign Affairs We are going through what by every measure is a great crisis, so it is natural to assume that it will prove to be a turning point in modern history. In the months since the appearance of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, analysts have...