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May 27, 2020
The Biggest Threat to a Coronavirus Vaccine Is the American People
The derangements of our current era could threaten the rock-solid legal precedents that provide states with the right to act in the interests of public health.
By MATT FORD
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The Case for Liberal Arts Education in a Time of Crisis
Small, private colleges teach students how to be not only workers but civically engaged citizens of the world.
By WIM WIEWEL
Dominic Cummings’s Very Trumpian Response to His Very English Scandal
Britons are used to being able to humiliate their politicians, but the besieged Tory adviser is determined to survive his coronavirus bungle.
By LIBBY WATSON
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The U.S. Can’t “Win” an Arms Race With Russia and China
Trump’s childish nuclear gambling and obsessive jingoism have combined in a strategy that could end arms control as we know it.
By ANKIT PANDA
How Corporations Make Pandemics Deadlier
Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.
By KATE ARONOFF
The Intolerable Cruelty of Our Elder Care System
Long before they were ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, our nursing homes were a place of heartlessness, abuse, and neglect.
By LIBBY WATSON
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