To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Observercast

The Travel Ban That Wasn’t

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Now that President Donald Trump has surrendered the United States to the coronavirus – without much available testing, except for himself and his White House cronies – the toll of illness and death is sure to explode. As America counts the cost of their horrific incompetence, in the midst of his re-election campaign, the president will trumpet his sole attempt to stem the looming pandemic: his closing of the nation’s borders to China and later […]

Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.