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    Political Grief On Top Of Fear, Depression And Economic Loss

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    COVID-19 is not at all over and shows every sign of staging a return. We’ve been through a lot of fear, depression, and losses of income and loved ones. Much can’t be changed, but the leadership can, from sloppy governors to President Donald Trump at the top of the heap. Trump seems not just incapable […]

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    COVID-19 Is Prompting A Societywide Recalculation

    Columnists Jim Hightower - 0

    Laissez-faire ideologue Ronald Reagan used to delight in mocking the very idea that government should provide health protection, food aid, income support or other public assistance to people in need. The Gipper derided “big government” as both a hopeless bungler and an insatiable beast that devours individual freedom, quipping that, “The nine most terrifying words […]

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    Tearing Down The Symbols Of Slavery

    Columnists Joe Conason - 0

    Suddenly confronted with the enduring realities of racism in our time, white Americans are looking back at the history we have too often forgotten – and the ways that our amnesia has distorted the nation’s culture. Now we have arrived at a time for remembrance, and reckoning. Perhaps the most damning proof of our neglect […]

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    The Virus Slightly Cools The Planet. Can It Do More?

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    Some say the pandemic has become a permanent ally in the fight against climate catastrophe. It has jump-started a drop in the burning of fossil fuels, and that will continue. Others say this is short-term thinking: The public may abandon its concerns over global warming as it tries to climb out of the economic hole […]

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    Conventions

    Columnists Susan Estrich - 0

    Modern conventions don’t decide anything. On occasion, there are votes that matter – not on the roll call for president but on the seating of all-white delegations, or the inclusion of reproductive freedom and gay rights in the platform. The candidate and his staff decide everything. They decide who speaks and what they say [yes, […]

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