America’s Covid-19 hot spots shed a light on our moral failures (Vox)
It’s no accident that prisons and meatpacking plants are hotbeds of Covid-19.
In 2010, the moral philosopher Kwame...
Georgia went first. And it screwed up. (NYT)
Here’s what other states can learn from our inept reopening.
ATLANTA — Last week was a bad...
Street food (Slate)
Close the roads. Reclaim the parking lots. Put restaurants outside.
When the shutdowns end, America will reopen...
The case for reopening America’s parks (Vox)
There’s little reason to believe passing outdoor encounters pose a major risk of spreading the coronavirus.
In...
Meatpacking plants are a front in the Covid-19 class war (Nation)
Eager to reopen the economy, Donald Trump and Republican governors are taking extraordinary measures to force the poor to do dangerous...
Mitch McConnell’s new coronavirus plan: Make sure you can’t sue a company that gets...
But providing businesses with broad legal immunity reduces any incentive for them to provide protective equipment to employees or safe spaces...
Tracking Trump’s promises on responding to the virus (NYT)
The president has promised enhanced testing and monitoring capabilities, thousands of ventilators and millions of masks. Here’s a status report.
Paul Krugman: Starve the beast, feed the depression (NYT)
Anti-government ideology is crippling pandemic policy.
So Donald Trump’s name will, in a break with all previous...
The Democrats’ terrible health care solution for the newly unemployed (New Republic)
Subsidizing stopgap insurance may enrich providers, but it's not a solution for this crisis. I know because I’m on it.
Let’s explore exactly why Dr. Phil’s coronavirus arguments are so obtuse (WaPo)
Maybe television doctors shouldn’t discuss nuanced issues of life or death on the air.
At some point,...
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