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 […]
COVID-19
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As Washington Falters, California Leads the Way on Scientific Research
Using its economic leverage, the Golden State has been forging its own scientific path for 25 years. Here’s how.
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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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Data Don’t Lie: Harris Has the Facts to Refute Trump’s Lies About the Economy
Harris Has the Facts to Refute Trump’s Lies About the Economy. She has the skills and facts to discredit the Republican nominee’s claims that the Trump economy was better than the Biden economy.
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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 inJuly/August 2023
The Founders Want You to Work From Home
The CEOs who would herd us back to the office are flouting a tradition of economic autonomy and productive leisure that stretches back to the American Revolution.
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How to Stop the Drug Companies from Hiking Prices for Covid Vaccines
The drug companies got rich during the pandemic through massive government subsidies. Now, they want to raise the price of lifesaving treatment. Fostering competition could keep costs down.
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What Sweden Got Right About COVID
The U.S. botched the pandemic—overprotecting kids at low risk of serious illness and under-protecting older Americans. Stockholm pursued a light touch and fared far better.
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Conservative Supreme Court Justices V. Statutory Text, the Constitution, and Public Safety
When they struck down the Biden OSHA rule for COVID-19, the Chief Justice John Roberts and the high court’s conservatives ignored their own principles and put the rest of us at risk.
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With Bans on Local School Mask Mandates, Youngkin Begins Governorship by Bullying
He ran as a genial moderate, but the new Republican governor of Virginia is acting like a mini Donald Trump.
