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A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent nearly two decades strategizing for a doomsday scenario. So what went wrong?
The Republican deal with the devil to tolerate Trumpian corruption in exchange for a supermajority deserves both scorn and redress.
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.
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