Trump Just Can’t Keep His Hands to Himself
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Doug McMillon, president and CEO of Walmart Inc.Alex Brandon/AP President Trump—modeling exactly the behavior health experts have been warning us to avoid—just shook the hands of five top CEOs and adjusted the microphone for them all at his coronavirus press conference this afternoon. Trump also touched the hand of…
House Republicans Tried to Capitalize on Coronavirus to Sneak Anti-Abortion Language Into Law
Nancy Pelosi( D-Calif.) makes a statement about the Coronavirus Response Act aid package in the Capitol on Friday, March 13th. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press As stock markets plummet businesses prepare for staff to work from home, and confirmed cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus continue to grow, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif)…
The Right and Wrong Lessons to Take From That Viral Photo of an ICE Arrest at a Hospital
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers debrief after operations to arrest undocumented immigrants in 2018 in Brooklyn, New York. John Moore/Getty Two seemingly contradictory facts are both true: First, in the midst of a pandemic, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained a Honduran immigrant at a Pennsylvania hospital on Thursday. Second, it remains safe for immigrants…
Total Isolation. No Testing. Communication Breakdown. Inside the Coronavirus Cruise Ship Evacuation.
Passengers from the Grand Princess exit a bus in Oakland.Jeff Chiu/AP After spending five days quarantined in their cabins aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship that carried 21 people infected with the coronavirus off the coast of San Francisco, passengers faced a harrowing bus journey to an Air Force base where chaos and confusion reigned.…
Empty Tables, Cancelled Reservations, Lost Shifts: Restaurants Scramble to Recalibrate
A waiter stands at a restaurant in Monterey Park, Calif., Thursday, March 12, 2020. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP Amid the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants are already taking a massive hit. In Seattle, an early hotspot for the spread of the infection in the United States, the prominent Tom Douglas Seattle Kitchen group announced it…
Denying Reality Is Finally Biting Republicans in the Ass
Shealah Craighead/White House/ZUMA Politico reporter Dan Diamond on President Trump’s listless attitude toward coronavirus testing: My understanding is he did not push to do aggressive additional testing in recent weeks, and that’s partly because more testing might have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak, and the president had made clear — the…