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It started with “one-time” stimulus checks. Now some politicians are proposing $2,000 for everyone until the crisis passes. “A one-time, twelve-hundred-dollar check isn’t going to cut it,” says Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif). “Americans need sustained cash infusions for the duration of this crisis.” Khanna, along with Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), is co-sponsor of the Emergency Money for …

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Former President George W. Bush called on all Americans to recognize their common humanity and help one another during the current coronavirus pandemic. “Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat,” the former president said in a video posted Saturday. “In the final analysis, we are not partisan …

All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here” — referring to fascism). It’s not that I’ve ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that. But the ease with which …

The COVID-19 pandemic will be a history-altering event. But where will it take us? One theory of governance is that democracies only make major changes when confronted with a crisis. It is too early to conclude whether Covid-19 was such a crisis, but the immediate response to it was a rebalancing, perhaps temporary, of individual …

I promise that this isn’t one of those schmaltzy “Look on the bright side”/”There is a silver lining to all this” articles. Coronavirus has no bright side, and there is no silver lining. But over the past couple of days, I have become a bit more grateful for the technologies and technology-based services that are …

People in lab coats won’t settle the big public-policy questions facing us. If you thought the coronavirus presented difficult policy questions, don’t worry — we have science. Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted the other day, “The West Coast is — and will continue to be — guided by SCIENCE.” Joe Biden has urged President Trump, “Follow …

Madonna said this week that she has tested positive for coronavirus antibodies. “Took a test the other day, and I found out that I have the antibodies, so tomorrow, I’m just going to go for a long drive in a car, and I’m going to roll down the window and I’m going to breathe in. …

President Trump is entering a new phase of coronavirus management that will likely determine whether he is reelected, as he embarks on his first major post-pandemic travel, encouraging states to reopen economies shuttered by quarantines. One of the questions he faces is whether the country can return to something like normal without sacrificing the hard-fought …

Over the course of this COVID-19 outbreak, the media has been fairly consistent in one thing: attempting to use anything and everything to pin the blame on President Donald Trump. Their devotion to being a resistance rather than a fair and honest media has been nothing short of shameful, and it has even gotten so …