The Real Problem With Inequality
Reading Time: 5 minutes It goes way beyond fairness. Introducing a series on the effects of economic inequality on American life.
COVID-19 Casualties You Should Wish For
Reading Time: 4 minutes The pandemic may not produce herd immunity to the coronavirus, but maybe it will to some toxic ideas.
Cue the Soup Kitchens
Reading Time: 5 minutes Until this month, a 1930s-style depression seemed virtually impossible. Thanks to COVID-19, all bets are off.
Is Joe Biden Hazardous to Your Health?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Private health insurers are celebrating the former vice president’s ascendance. That should worry you.
Note to the Gun Lobby: Try to Aim Higher
Reading Time: 3 minutes You say you’re patriots, but your menacing rhetoric suggests contempt for democracy.
Some Clarity on Flight 752
Reading Time: 6 minutes Confirmation that two missiles brought down the Ukrainian airliner seems to answer one question — but others remain open.
No President Left Behind: Trump’s Lack of Basic Literacy and the Consequences
Reading Time: 4 minutes A coming book on Donald Trump provides substance for our argument that federal office holders should pass a test of basic literacy.
The New York Times’s Odd Plane-Strike Video
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s not clear how it is that video cameras were on hand to capture Wednesday’s 6 AM downing of the Ukrainian jetliner near Tehran. Does that suggest it wasn’t the accident officials claim it was?
Diplomacy for Dummies: Foreign Policy Is No Place for Amateurs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Foreign policy should be left to the intellectually competent. There’s a test for that.