Many states are racing to reopen their economies before measures such as testing, contact tracing and full-time mask-wearing are in place. But the one of biggest economic effect of a hasty end of lockdowns adopted to limit the spread of the coronavirus won’t be to save businesses; it will be to kick people off of […]
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Leonard Pitts: Black people are dying to know
That video broke my heart. If you’ve seen it, you need no further explanation. You know exactly what video I’m talking about and why it shattered me. If you haven’t, be advised that the clip in question depicts the last seconds in the life of Ahmaud Arbery. He was just 25, a young man out […]
Cal Thomas: COVID-19 not the only threat from China
The destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent demise of the Soviet Union two years later lulled the West into a false sense of security. Many appeared to believe that an age of unending peace and prosperity had been ushered in. While terrorism would become a stateless threat, most people probably thought […]
Said Mohamud: U.S. aid needed to save Somalia
Somalia is in the worst status at the bottom of a completely failed state. As often as it tries to get up on its feet, it falls back to a much worse situation than when it was qualified as a standard failed state. The people of Somalia have suffered from disease, hunger, poverty, insecurity, absence […]
Sen. Lisa Keim: About the coronavirus, government and the people
It has been nearly two months now since the State Legislature passed a series of bills into law in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. As we left Augusta that day, much of our state was rapidly descending into isolation as a means of slowing the spread of the virus. At the same time, exerting the […]
Rich Lowry: Lockdown extremism has become the new normal
We will be in a fight against the coronavirus for months, if not years, and yet it is time to declare mission accomplished on one very important goal. The lockdowns of much of the country were undertaken “to flatten the curve” and largely to prevent the hospital system from being overwhelmed. It was a near-run […]
Froma Harrop: More people than ever don’t use cash
Last year seems a lifetime ago, but even then, cash was no longer king. The greenback had already lost its premier role as Americans’ medium of exchange in dollar terms. Plastic card and digital transactions had taken over. And that’s how stores, restaurants and other businesses seemed to want it. COVID-19 has accelerated this process […]
Leonard Pitts: Reality has another side of the story
We’re all in this thing together. Or so we are told by celebrities, politicians and every third TV commercial. It’s the lullaby with which America soothes itself every time these shores are attacked. That’s why Monday, Dec. 8, 1941, saw long lines at military recruiting offices and millions of dollars pouring in to the American […]
Austin Bay: Wuhan virus threatens the Chinese Communist Party’s imperial dreams
If it acts, the Free World has the opportunity to condemn another communist dictatorship to Karl Marx’s dustbin of history and avoid a war with a totalitarian superpower circa 2035. The Chinese Communist Party knows the COVID-19/Wuhan virus pandemic has exposed its imperial war to conquer the world, so it is frantically engaged in psychological […]
Cal Thomas: The two faces of Joe Biden
Even if the sexual assault allegations by former Joe Biden staff member Tara Reade turn out to be false there are still problems the former vice president faces. The first and most important of these is whether he can win his party’s nomination. I’m generally suspicious when it comes to politics. Why has Reade waited […]