[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...
Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror. According to Sherman, when New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said that the state...
This Is Just the First in a Series of Cascading Crises
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Even as we are just beginning to confront the magnitude of the shock caused by the covid-19 pandemic, we need to wrap our minds around a painful truth. We are in the early stages of what is going to become a series of cascading crises,...
Here’s What Happens if We 'Reopen America'
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription We created this interactive model with epidemiologists to show why quickly returning to normal could be a historic mistake that would lead to an explosion of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. Instead, health experts advise giving current business closures and social distancing a month to...
The US Is Still Exceptional — but Now for Its Incompetence
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription When a crisis hits the United States, the country’s general instinct is to rally around the flag and wish the best for its leaders. That’s probably why President Trump has seen his approval ratings rise, even though he has had a delayed and fitful approach...
Opinion: Forget Coronavirus. In Israel, the Democracy Virus Will Be Defeated
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz “They’re stealing democracy from us,” the demonstrators protesting via their computer screens charged. The real theft of democracy, the prime minister’s defenders retort, is the High Court of Justice’s intervention in the Knesset’s work by delivering an ultimatum to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein. This intervention will “undermine the...
