China Constructed New Hospitals in Days, and Other Lessons From Their Response to the Coronavirus
Mask-wearing people on a street in Beijing, China on March 4, 2020, amid an outbreak of the new coronavirus COVID-19.AP For many of us, the scariest part of the coronavirus outbreak is what we don’t know—how severe the virus is, how it’s transmitted, what we can do to stop its spread. “The many unknowns about…
Sanders Said It Takes a Revolution to Beat Trump. On Super Tuesday, Most Democrats Disagreed.
Bernie Sanders arrives for his primary night rally in Vermont.Matt Rourke/AP Bernie Sanders, the Vermont democratic socialist, has been trying for five years to convince Democratic and independent voters to join a political revolution and back his hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. He has drawn thousands to his mega-rallies. He has inspired millions—many of…
She Won an Abortion Rights Case in the Supreme Court. Now She’s Watching the Same Damn Fight Again.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Amy Hagstrom Miller is one of the fiercest advocates for reproductive rights in the country. She is the president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, a network of eight abortion clinics that operate in five states, and she’s best known for her role as a plaintiff in a Supreme Court case in 2016,…
Supreme Court Oral Arguments Leave Abortion Precedents in Jeopardy
Anti-abortion marchers and abortion-rights supporters at the U.S. Supreme Court on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade in January 2005.Pete Souza/TNS via ZUMA Wire On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard is first abortion case since President Trump’s appointments of conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Despite the court’s new conservative majority, the morning’s oral arguments…
Joe Biden Has Won Already
Justin L. Stewart/ZUMA I’m a little curious why I’m not seeing more people admit the obvious: Joe Biden is now virtually 100 percent assured of winning the Democratic nomination. He’s going to come out of Super Tuesday ahead of Bernie Sanders and there’s little reason to think he won’t maintain that lead. And if he’s…
USA Leads the World In Number of Super Wealthy Individuals
I got nuthin’ this morning, so feast your eyes on this: USA! USA! Apparently $30 million is some kind of threshold for ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs), and it turns out that the ranks of UHNWIs increased by 6 percent last year. I can’t think of anything nonobvious to say about this, except to note…