The right danced a jig of joy over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s invoking the Fifth Amendment before Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee. The Kentucky Republican knew in advance that Fauci would give no substantive testimony. Yet he paraded the 85-year-old doctor before the cameras to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights over a hundred times, then […]
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Make America Sick Again
How much longer can Republicans survive politically and literally if they keep killing voters with anti-vax quackery?
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Trump Will Break the Federal Government. The Washington Monthly Can Fix It.
To break the MAGA stranglehold on the White House, the Senate, and the House, America needs good ideas that can win elections and make government work. That’s where the Monthly comes in.
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How America Bungled the Pandemic
Why did the world’s richest nation, with some of the most advanced health care, respond so poorly to COVID-19?
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal
My Johnson & Johnson Vaccination Was Canceled. How Mad Should I Be?
Part of me gets the need to balance risk. Part of me wants to scream.
Posted inHealth Care, Main
COVID, OSHA Complaints, And Unsafe Labor Practices
Owing to the pandemic, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration gets COVID complaints that go unanswered. A Harvard study finds they correspond workplace deaths.
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What Happens When the President Believes Conspiracy Theories?
You can’t solve a public health crisis when Trump is convincing millions of Americans not to take it seriously.
