Criminal Justice
There's so much death and suffering in the world these days (unless you're a 5' billionaire with a rocket ship and a cowboy hat), we are struggling to process news about other disasters, other suffering, other crimes. One such crime is the murder of more
COVID-19
This piece in the New York Times is a few days old but I'm just getting around to posting it. It's a useful resetting of expectations vis a vis Covid and what comes next for Americans: Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts
China
Everything you ever wanted to know about the origins of a virus that's killed more than three million people In the piece below, the science writer Nicholas Wade argues that in the early days of the pandemic, western scientists with conflicts of interest, vastly overstated the weight of
COVID-19
To my fellow citizens of North Dakota. Not the ones who live in Fargo but the ones who live in places that are so far out in the sticks it doesn’t really have a name. Firstly, so sorry that the big fat New York con artist that you love
COVID-19
Long-Term Care: We're All Going to Die and Private Insurance Won't Save Us About one-quarter of all US coronavirus deaths have been nursing home residents. Baby boomers, that enormous post-war cohort, is beginning what will be a stampede into retirement (or death on