Bouie: The coronavirus test is too hard for Trump (NYT)
The list of presidential failures is long and varied. But when it comes to failure in the face of an external force...
Know your covidiots from your cove-dwellers (Bloomberg)
Dramatic shifts in culture and technology often catalyze the formation of new vocabulary, and the emergence of coronavirus is no exception. Below...
The U.S. stimulus package is too expensive, poorly targeted, and wasteful (ProMarket (Booth))
A cost-effective stimulus to mend the effects of a 24 percent drop in GDP would cost no more than $1.3 trillion...
An alternative to complete shutdown: let younger people work (ProMarket)
The mortality rate of Covid-19 is rising with age. The cost of the economic shutdown declines with the number of people not...
Goldberg: Jared Kushner is going to get us all killed (NYT)
Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.
Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity...
Why mass testing is crucial: The U.S. should study the Veneto model (ProMarket...
The Italian experience suggests that locking downtowns is a necessary but insufficient condition to stop the spread of the disease. If...
Did experts and officials warn in 2018 U.S. couldn’t respond effectively to a pandemic?...
Such individuals have made repeated warnings about U.S. readiness in the event of a pandemic.
In late...
Trump to governors: “I’d like you to do us a favor, though” (WaPo)
Once again, the president is using aid to extort re-election help.
Last December, during a congressional hearing on...
Virus briefing: Where science meets all things Trump (U.S. News)
For a few moments in the Rose Garden, the coronavirus pandemic is a bucking bronco with President Donald Trump on its back....
President Trump’s prime-time pandemic (NYT)
The daily coronavirus briefings have given President Trump something he hasn’t had since “The Apprentice”: a regular TV show in which...
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