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A Fatal Fallout: Experts worry that the next phase of COVID-19 crisis may be most dangerous yet

Posted by TheGuardian | Oct 2, 2020 |

April marked the most dramatic and dangerous phase of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States. Deaths were increasing, bodies were piling up in refrigerated trucks outside hospitals in New York City, and ventilators and personal protective equipment were in desperately short supply. The economy was falling off the proverbial cliff, with unemployment soaring to 14.7%. Since then, supplies of medical and protective equipment have improved. Doctors are figuring out when to put patients on ventilators and when to take them off. We have recognized the importance of protecting vulnerable populations, including the elderly. The infected are now younger...

The path from Jim Crow to Donald Trump and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

Posted by TheGuardian | Oct 1, 2020 |

Heather Cox Richardson offers an eloquent history of the negation of the American idea, with clear lessons for the November election. Heather Cox Richardson’s How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America is not principally about that war. Instead, it is a broad sweep of American history on the theme of the struggle between democracy and oligarchy – between the vision that “all men are created equal” and the frequency with which power has accumulated in the hands of a few, who have then sought to thwart equality. What...