Science is the accumulation of our best knowledge at the moment, the result of testing and retesting ideas. This seems to have been hard for some people to grasp, both those who use science to guide our response to COVID-19 and those who deny the developing science or even deny that the virus exists.

The legislation would fundamentally overhaul our country’s labor laws with potentially catastrophic consequences that would infringe on employees’ privacy rights, force small businesses to close permanently and lead to significant job loss.

Russia and China are conducting multiple probing operations intended to test President Biden’s administration as a whole and, to be frank, directly target Joe Biden as the septuagenarian human being who ostensibly leads what China’s communist propagandists ritually deride as the U.S.-led “Liberal International Order” but recently scorned as “U.S.-led anti-China cliques.”

In a nation that was not broken along seams of race, a nation where you could trust the police to actually protect and serve no matter the color of your skin, Chauvin’s conviction would have been a foregone conclusion. But in this nation, it was anything but. That’s why I forgot to breathe. And why, after the verdict, what I felt was less exultation than simply relief.