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There’s a Way for the Economy to Shelter in Place, Too
By now it’s clear that the CARES bill recently passed by Congress was not only inadequate, but deeply flawed because of the time it will take to get funds to the people who need them. As I write this, small businesses and households across the...
How Software and Big Data Could Eat the Next Pandemic
Managing uncertainty and acquiring data are hard even in the best of circumstances. In the middle of a global pandemic? Good luck. The world is getting a crash course in the uncertainty of medicine, a discipline that is informed by science and...
America Is Hostage to the Stories Trump Wants to Tell About Himself
Donald Trump’s character flaws have shaped—and are continuing to shape—the federal government’s disastrous response to COVID-19. From the day Trump took office, Trumpism has wreaked havoc on our democracy, our culture, our standing in the world, and...
The Media Is Not the Problem with COVID-19
Thousands of Americans are dying. And some conservatives are blaming a favorite scapegoat.
The Cult Comes for Dr. Fauci
Here is where we are now that the American president has acknowledged that we face one of one of the worst crises in our history: Doctor Anthony Fauci—the government’s our foremost expert on immunology and infectious diseases who has advised every...
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The Cult Comes for Dr. Fauci
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Don’t Bank on a Quick Economic Recovery
In formulating an economic policy response to the coronavirus epidemic, it is important that U.S. policymakers recognize that this crisis is more serious and complicated than any previous such crisis since the end of World War II. They shouldn’t...
The Trump Virus Is Getting Worse
Americans have stepped through the looking glass into the mind of Donald Trump. On Monday, the 3,000th American died from COVID-19. At this writing, the death toll is over 5,300. As you read this many more will have perished. No matter. Proclaiming...
This Is the Entire 2020 Election in One Screenshot
On February 5, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy left a Trump administration briefing on the Coronavirus and fired off a tweet: “Bottom line. They aren’t taking this seriously enough…Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff.” On...
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The election will hinge on one question: Did Donald Trump do everything a president should have done to keep America safe from the pandemic?
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Viktor Orbán’s Pandemic Power Grab
Will Washington respond? Will other aspiring autocrats follow Hungary’s example?
Stay at Home. Vote at Home.
Last week, Congress took steps to safeguard the economy with a major stimulus bill that puts cash in the hands of Americans. Now, having ameliorated the economic crisis for the time being, it’s time for Congress to address the coming political...
Brad Thor on Leadership in Times of Crisis
On today's Bulwark Podcast, NYT Best Selling Author Brad Thor joins host Charlie Sykes to talk about leadership, or lack thereof, during the Coronavirus pandemic, the President's trouble with truth, and why he likely won't be able to tweet his way...
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Be sure to catch today's podcast with @SykesCharlie and @BradThor. Download here or wherever you listen to podcasts!
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Here's How Biden Resets the Race During a Pandemic
Joe Biden faces a challenge unique to any previous presidential nominee: How to break through a politically-suffocating pandemic from his basement. Not easy. COVID-19 is 9/11 transported to March 2020—but worse. At present this rolling national...
American Paralysis Fuels Freedom’s Retreat
The steady erosion of democracy around the world in recent years may be reaching an alarming inflection point. In the first decades after the Cold War, authoritarian states and illiberal regimes were largely content to wield and abuse power without...
COVID-19 Has Killed More Americans Than 9/11
On September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked by 19 members of an al Qaeda terrorist cell. Two of the planes were crashed into the World Trade Center. One was crashed into the Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth flight communicated...
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The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is about to eclipse the death toll from September 11. And there's no end in sight.
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Economic Nationalism Will Make COVID Worse
With most of the world grappling with COVID-19, some are calling for curtailed trade and protectionism to help fight the pandemic. These policies will not work. They rest on the false promises of economic nationalism, which is being exposed as...
Trump: America’s Most Dangerous Pathogen?
It has come to this: America’s deadliest pathogen may be its own president. In one sense, COVID-19 is Trump’s dream come perversely true—it has licensed his endless voracity to consume our mass consciousness. He has hijacked a pandemic to extend his...
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America isn't just fighting off COVID-19—we're struggling against a president who has made matters worse at nearly every turn.
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The Only Stimulus We Need Is to Defeat the Coronavirus
Cast your mind back to the heady days of the giant Obama-era “stimulus package” following the financial crisis of 2008. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman—the great advocate of ultra-Keynesian big-government spending—assured us that the only...
Trump vs. the Governors?
Adam J. White explains how federal relief could bring governors and the president together—or nudge them apart.
Warnings Ignored: A Timeline of Trump’s COVID-19 Response
For ten weeks President Trump downplayed the threat of and ignored warnings about the potential severity of COVID-19 with a series of lies, exaggerations, and outright fabrications that have been well documented. And yet despite the video record of...
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The White House is trying to establish an alternate reality where in which Trump was a competent, focused leader who saved American people from the coronavirus.
If only it were true.
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