William Petri, University of Virginia As millions of people are recovering from COVID-19, an unanswered question is the extent to which the virus can “hide out” in seemingly recovered individuals. If it does, could this explain some of the lingering symptoms of COVID-19 or pose a risk for transmission of infection to others even…
The idea that our American democracy is at a dangerous fork in the road is not new, but no one is more keenly aware of the dangers we confront than Yale Professor of History Timothy Snyder, author most recently of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” See a brief summary of his…
The GOP won’t deal on a new stimulus because they already got their corporate bailout in March. They may be writing off 2020 as hopeless, and a nice Depression now, with massive starvation and unrest, may be just what’s needed to sabotage the coming Democratic administration, preparing the way for a resurgent GOP in…
I’m guessing that it will be less than a year before we start seeing even more massive social unrest and violence in the streets as a result of unemployment and hunger, probably on a scale greater than that of the Great Depression of the 1930s. This excerpt from an article in The Intercept makes…