COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance
Americans are polarized in their attitudes to risk
Politics
Read about the latest political news, views and analysis
Monday
Saturday
Disinfectant Donnie
Trump turns normally sensible conservative journalists into a sort of Praetorian Guard, drawing their swords to defend his every utterance
Friday
Half of Americans want their state to sue China for coronavirus damages
And 70 percent of voters polled said China should be forced to allow independent investigators into the country to investigate the origins of the virus
Why Joe Biden’s America loves a lockdown
The divide between the professional and servant classes has never been more stark
Tuesday
The Russia probe was mishandled worse than anyone could have imagined
Newly declassified documents tell more of the story
Jared Kushner pushes back on Trump’s immigration ban
An internal battle rages
There are lies, damned lies and epidemiological models
What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
Monday
Is Bernie Sanders the Barry Goldwater of the left?
Only if his supporters trade Marx for Machiavelli
What if a virus were ever used as a WMD?
We ain’t seen nothing yet
Sunday
Our post-liberal moment
What do we want? The common good! When do we want it? Now!
Will the coronavirus succeed where Russiagate and Ukrainegate failed?
At last, Donald Trump’s enemies may have found a winner
Saturday
How Bill Clinton junked America’s supremacy
The US-China Relations Act was a monumental mistake
Friday
Liberate…Michael Cohen?
He’s siding with the rebels who are painting the economic shutdown as a plot not just against America but preeminently Trump himself
Coronavirus lockdowns are cowardice
A life lost now to coronavirus is treated as more important than one lost indirectly as a result of our response
I tried to warn the National Security Council about China — and was fired for it
Corporations are exposing our 5G security to the Chinese Communist party
Thursday
Fall in line, fellow kids: meet ‘Ziad the Activist’
A young priest of corporate progressivism demands Bernie bros bow to Uncle Joe
Trump walks the recovery tightrope
Good cop, bad cop…then back to work?
Wednesday
Who will win the corona wars?
History shows plagues are bad for big empires with weak frontiers: ask the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
The cashless lobby is cashing in on the COVID-19 crisis
What does evidence matter when you have a multi-million payments industry to promote?
What about flattening the unemployment curve?
Rampant unemployment at a level not seen since the Great Depression could spur other health issues, including alcoholism and depression