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The months ahead will be difficult. But the medical cavalry is coming, and the rest of us know what we need to do. The final death toll from Covid-19 will depend both on how we behave going forward and how quickly innovations arrive.

Republicans have been laying the groundwork to restrain a Biden administration on federal spending by focusing on the price tag for virus relief. It makes it all the more critical that Democrats retake the Senate and eliminate the filibuster.

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The Right vs Left/Center showdown brings a court victory over fascism in Greece, exploding teens, and a mess of menaces.

Editors at the world’s leading medical journal said the Trump administration “took a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”

Even if it is exceedingly difficult to prove a negative, there’s little reason to entertain a lab origin theory when no actual evidence is presented that the virus originated at any particular lab.

By attempting to reorient world trade away from China and to the United States, the U.S. is therefore attempting to lock other countries into subordination to its own very low growth instead of the much more rapidly growing economy of China.

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

In 2016, Donald Trump said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." He is indeed a murderer, but as president, he's proven to be anything but a smalltime killer.