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Trump’s Handling of Coronavirus Has Been a Disaster–But Don’t Forget His Other Crimes and Abuses
Trump’s outrageous firing of the Intelligence Community IG is a useful reminder that he is not just directly responsible for making much worse one of the biggest public health and economic catastrophes in American history, he is still the most…
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A Health Crisis Wrapped in an Economic Crisis Inside a Leadership Crisis
America is just over 4% of the world’s population but home to 25% of its COVID-19 cases. While European nations like Italy and Spain are wracked with the disease, Europeans typically do not have the added anxiety of trying to…
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Do Our Leaders Morals Matter in a Crisis Like This?
Joe Nye, Harvard professor and formerly Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has a timely new book called “Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump” that serves as a jumping off point for our discussion…
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What Will the Death Toll of the War on Science Be?
In South Africa during the AIDS crisis, as our special guest Dr. Seema Yasmin points out, the government’s denial of AIDS took a measurable toll. Today, she argues, we are at risk from the misinformation, denial and deception of many…
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Beyond the Politics of the Pandemic: In a Crisis Party Must Not Matter
While the debate about managing the pandemic has grown more rancorous in recent days as death tolls have climbed and states have lamented the unresponsiveness of the federal government, while on Capitol Hill the name calling has resumed, the virus…
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We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This…And All That We Know About the Future is that the Worst Is Yet to Come
The Coronavirus Crisis is the first 50 state natural disaster in American history. And while it is certainly not the first for which the federal response was lacking, it may be the worst overall response of an administration to a…
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We Won’t be the Same Again: A Once in a Century Crisis and the Big Changes It Will Produce
From an explosion of e-commerce to a re-evaluation of the roll of government, a teaching moment for healthcare policy and geopolitical shocks and aftershocks, the COVID-19 crisis is going to leave the world changed in material ways. We won’t be…
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Flying Blind: Facing an Unprecedented Crisis In a Time of Complete Leadership Failure in Washington
There are countries and systems that are managing the COVID-19 crisis comparatively well. South Korea, which invested heavily and early in testing is one. Singapore, in the view of renowned infectious disease expert and Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurie Garrett, may be…
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When It’s a Matter of Life and Death, Who Can You Trust?
Live are at stake in the coronavirus crisis. And the future of democracy is at stake in the upcoming election. What is disturbing is that both vitally important issues depend on all of us having access to the facts and…
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It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And We Feel Fine…More or Less…Well, Not As Bad As You’d Think)
In a moment that a global pandemic has you self-quarantined and social distancing and a global market collapse has you terrified about the future and bad leadership has you curled up on under your bed, there is only one perfect…
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Why Democrats and All Americans Should Unite Behind Joe Biden Now
As you who follow me know, I was not a @JoeBiden supporter at the outset. I have been energized and inspired by @kamalaharris and @ewarren since the beginning of the campaign. But with the inevitability of @joebiden as the candidate now clear, I’d like to share a…
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Afghanistan! Syria! Coronavirus! Elections! What’s Scariest?
After 20 years, the US is trying its best to get out of Dodge in Afghanistan. Trouble is the not-quite-a-peace-deal announced over the weekend fell apart on Monday. The US got out of Syria and now that country is on…
