[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...
Opinion: Call Yourself a Friend? Then Stop Israel’s West Bank Annexation Disaster
[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....
