Charles M. Blow
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UC to ease admission requirements: No SAT, no minimum grades due to coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis prompts the University of California to temporarily suspend some admission requirements.
In Arizona, Pawn Shops and Golf Courses Are ‘Essential,’ and Staying Open
A state with a libertarian streak runs an experiment in just how relaxed you can be about coronavirus.
Taiwan will spend up to $35 billion on virus stimulus plan and is donating 10 million masks
The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to impact countries worldwide, particularly in Europe and the US. Follow here for live updates.
New Orleans jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis dead at 85
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85. New Orleans...
The Racial Time Bomb in the Covid-19 Crisis
Pre-existing health conditions leave one group particularly vulnerable.
Charles M. Blow
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A Ventilator Stockpile, With One Hitch: Thousands Do Not Work
While President Trump has assured states that thousands of ventilators remain at the ready, thousands more are in storage, unmaintained, broken or otherwise unusable.
Markets v. Lives
Claims that the cure is worse than the disease rely on a false tradeoff between human needs and the economy.
On Coronavirus, Trump Takes Charge
The Trump-hating media have been reduced to desperate weaving back and forth in their search for a plausible alternative to the incumbent.
In the American South, Covid-19 Could Find Fertile Ground
Beset by poorer health, limited health care access, and an abiding skepticism of government, the South may be in for a reckoning.
The Politics of a Pandemic
Trump wants us to see him as defeating a foreign enemy.
Testing is Just the Beginning in the Battle Against Covid-19
We need a comprehensive strategy to prevent the spread of the disease.
Dr. Deborah Birx Offers Alarming Prediction: Up to 200,000 Coronavirus Deaths in U.S. Even if Things Done ‘Almost Perfectly’
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, predicted that the U.S. would face up to 200,000 coronavirus deaths, even if things are done "almost perfectly."
WSJ News Exclusive | Macy's to Furlough Most Workers as Stores Stay Shut
The retailer will furlough the majority of its employees beginning this week as sales have evaporated while its stores remain closed due to the coronavirus.
Opportunistic Thieves Just Stole a Prized Van Gogh Landscape From a Locked-Down Dutch Museum Under Cover of Night
A Van Gogh painting was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands in the early hours of Monday morning.
Lessons From Lockdown
Our lives have been upended in ways that portend dire consequences for the country.
The Brooklyn Barbershop That Survived Three Pandemic Events
Crown Heights’ X-Clusive made it through West Nile, swine flu, and a crippling blackout — but coronavirus is another threat entirely
L.A. Archdiocese closes all churches in hopes of easing coronavirus danger
L.A. archdiocese closes all churches in hopes of easing coronavirus danger
Alabama’s plan for which coronavirus patients should get ventilators
According to a state plan, any of a wide range of underlying health conditions – such as metastasized cancer, AIDS, "severe mental retardation," advanced dementia and "severe burns" – could disqualify patients from being put on potentially...
India's prime minister orders nationwide lockdown
Here are the latest updates from around the world.