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Queen Elizabeth delivers a moving speech on coronavirus
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The 1918 pandemic has lessons for the 2020. Namely, we got through it. And social distancing works.
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Some people see the coronavirus pandemic in apocalyptic terms. But let’s instead take it as a push to build a better world.
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The signature ending of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has inspired hundreds of memes that end with “Directed by Robert B. Weide,” except he had nothing to do with them.
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Judges aren’t wizards who can see the future, so it’s absurd to grant them legal power to brand any juveniles as incorrigible.
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We know we have adapted to our alarming new coronavirus norms when even a hug from a daughter feels foreign.
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Small Business Administration guidance is keeping federal dollars away from small employers trying to keep their workforces intact during the pandemic.
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The 11 states that are still foolishly acting as if the coronavirus isn’t a problem.
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No one should be crowding on sidewalks — and risking getting the coronavirus — for fear of getting plowed into by a speeding SUV.
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Farmers markets can’t turn into spring break on a city street. They must enforce the same rules as grocery stores.
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With the global economy tanking, the interest rates Washington has to pay on the money it borrows have dropped. But they’re not going to be zero.
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Trump’s leadership is inadequate in one of the worst crises ever. Perhaps typically quiet ex-presidents can put forth a plan for a national lockdown.
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Queen Elizabeth delivers a moving speech on coronavirus
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The signature ending of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has inspired hundreds of memes that end with “Directed by Robert B. Weide,” except he had nothing to do with them.
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Pandemics will become ever more common because of our use of animals and the destruction of their habitats.
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Maybe it’s enough just to be a witness to these crazy times.
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In November, Republican lawmakers could close polling places in Democratic areas and even prevent people from voting directly for the president.
A handful of states have tried to suspend access to all abortions, wrongly claiming they are not ‘immediately medically necessary.’
Venezuela needs political solutions to its problems more than ever, and the U.S. indictment of the country’s dictator could make that harder to achieve.
Beach closures, prompted by COVID-19, shows what life will be like when we lose our beaches to climate change.
Posts by Richard A. Epstein, widely circulated by Trumpites, helped to justify the administration’s equivocation and denial about the coronavirus.
We should confine terrorism crimes to offenses involving violence and intimidation against a large body of civilians in pursuit of political aims.
Rather than building hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq, we should have been producing masks and ventilators here at home.
How a leader confronts a deadly epidemic can reveal who they are. For Trump, that’s not a good thing.
After 9/11, they said irony was dead. After Obama was elected, they said satire was dead. Despite the dire predictions we’re hearing amid the coronavirus crisis, our lives will return to normal one day. But our behaviors may change dramatically for a time, but our natures will not.
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All presidential elections are uniquely consequential, but a good case can be made that the next one is the most important of our lives. The time has come to undo the great mistake of 2016 and drive Trump out of office at the ballot box.
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Ideas and commentary on building a livable, sustainable Los Angeles.
A six-part series from the editorial board on the humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
Our six-part series of editorials about the 45th president.
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Yes, that’s right. Mitch McConnell just blamed the coronavirus pandemic on Democrats fulfilling their moral obligation to impeach President Trump.
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Healthcare professionals are bravely battling coronavirus. But there are other “essential” workers in harm’s way. And they aren’t being paid fairly.
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Christians are debating whether a total shutdown of church services is necessary.
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‘There’s something very wrong where the only solution is to shut down the country and scrap individual freedom of movement,’ writes this columnist’s sister.
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Asian Americans have to fear both the coronavirus and being scapegoated and attacked for the disease.
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‘We were ready for this. And since the end of the Cold War, we’ve been dismantling systems because they cost money and we don’t want to spend the money.’
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As are bread and milk, gas and aspirin, alcohol and marijuana, books should be available, with safety precautions in place, at the usual places we buy them in our neighborhoods.
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Trump is forcing black folks to vote defensively. It’s too bad: For once mainstream politics, in the form of Bernie Sanders, lets us vote our ideology.
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Landlords who must continue to maintain their properties cannot go without rental income indefinitely; Newsom’s eviction delay policy recognizes that.
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Coronavirus closures are giving school districts an opportunity to evaluate their online learning efforts and how important teachers are to those programs.
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Construction workers can transmit viruses too, and apartment dwellers who are home all day don’t appreciate the noise. It’s time for construction work to halt.
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If spirituality is about the individual, then a few weeks for legally mandated isolation might actually be good for the soul.
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The governor’s announcement made it sound like renters had true protections, meaning many tenants could unwittingly end up setting themselves up for eviction.
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Some of the most effective strategies at containing the coronavirus are also the most intrusive. Can we adopt them without damaging our liberties?
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It would be grossly unfair to allow disadvantaged students to languish during a long gap in schooling while students whose families have more resources forge ahead.
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Communing online is a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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