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...
Exclusive: One Democrat’s plan to stretch expanded unemployment insurance through December (Vox)
Expanded unemployment benefits end in late July. Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan wants to extend them through the rest of the...
Facebook says it’s removing content promoting false cures. These businesses are currently violating that...
Facebook has stated that it is committed to fighting coronavirus misinformation by removing content that promotes bogus preventatives and cures. But Media...
Should you get an antibody test? (Atlantic)
A user’s guide to the immune system.
The road to ending social distancing is less contentious than...
How profit and incompetence delayed N95 masks while people died at the VA (ProPublica)
Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging...
What Is ‘Covid Toe’? Maybe a strange sign of Coronavirus infection (NYT)
Dermatologists say the lesions should prompt testing for the virus, even though many patients have no other symptoms.
Jeremy Konyndyk: Test, Trace, Isolate (05/01/20)
As I feared, the federal government wasted April much as it wasted February. That is a harsh assessment given how much the...
Vector in Chief (NY Review of Books)
On July 4, 1775, just his second day serving as commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary forces, George Washington issued strict orders to...
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