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Going Viral: Politicizing This Pandemic Gets Us Nowhere Mar. 26, 2020
By now the tropes have become almost typical. Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, drumming u... Read More
This Is What Disruption Looks Like Mar. 26, 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic has thrown the United States (like most of the rest of the world) in... Read More
I Am My Brother's and Sister's Keeper Mar. 26, 2020
It has been quite troubling during the past two weeks as we have continuously watched news updates o... Read More
Not This Grandma Mar. 26, 2020
My, these aging men with their bright ideas. First, it was the president, who has been openly contr... Read More
The Virtues of Andrew Cuomo Mar. 26, 2020
Every day, as the novel coronavirus spreads lethally across the nation, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo i... Read More
Notes From the New Normal Mar. 25, 2020
"The old custom of shaking hands fell into disuse." The line comes from Philadelphia in the 1793 ye... Read More
The Corona Car Mar. 25, 2020
There actually is a Corona — not the virus, the car. Toyota sold it as recently in as 2001 in ... Read More
Using Crisis to Undermine Constitutional Rights Is The Worst Kind of Gouging Mar. 25, 2020
Attorney General William Barr, who serves an authoritarian-minded president, is seeking to have defe... Read More
'Epidemic'/'Pandemic' Distinction Requires Fine-Tuning Mar. 25, 2020
During the current coronavirus scare, I've been taking comfort in playing the piano. I'm a terrible,... Read More
Communist China's Viral Propaganda Campaign Mar. 25, 2020
According to the World Health Organization March 23 update, 196 countries, territories and areas hav... Read More
Pandemic Profiteers, Trump and Peter Cottontail Mar. 25, 2020
Wartime profiteering is an especially vile form of corporate greed, yet it has been as common in our... Read More
High-Five to Hygge Mar. 24, 2020
With the arrival of a global pandemic, our homes have become our safe havens. And after stocking up ... Read More
Branch Covidian: The Virus Denier in Chief Tries a Rewrite Mar. 24, 2020
When it comes to pithy lines about dishonesty, writer Mary McCarthy's takedown of playwright Lillian... Read More
Veterans Running for Office Put Pandemic Plight Before Politics Mar. 24, 2020
ALIQUIPPA, Pennsylvania — Retired Army Capt. Sean Parnell, a decorated war veteran who served ... Read More
Curfews and Bans Don't Make Us Safer Mar. 21, 2020
In their haste to contain the coronavirus, public officials are trampling on civil liberties. North... Read More
We Should Attach Strings to Corporate Bailouts Mar. 21, 2020
It's the end of the world as we know it, and the banks and airlines feel fine because even in the mi... Read More
How to Save a Presidency Mar. 20, 2020
Three weeks ago, President Donald Trump seemed poised for reelection this November. And then the wor... Read More
Coronavirus Pandemic Infected by a Spirit of Generosity Mar. 19, 2020
While many of us turn to the government for answers to the COVID-19 pandemic, others rightfully seek... Read More
When This Pandemic Ends, We'll Have Decisions to Make Mar. 19, 2020
A favorite book I try never to be without is by the late Irish poet and priest John O'Donohue. It's ... Read More
What the Pandemic Tells Us Mar. 19, 2020
When Americans are confronting the most threatening national crisis in a generation or more, it woul... Read More
