Week of May 25, 2020 Archives

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Monday, May 25

CDC 'Best Estimate' Implies COVID Fatality Rate Below 0.3%

Jacob Sullum Reason

GOP, Ignore This New Think Tank At Your Own Peril

Henry Olsen Washington Post

An Unknown Healthcare Law Made Lockdown Inevitable

Gavin Wax Human Events

Face Masks Represent a New Culture War

Alex Samuels Texas Tribune

Social Distancing is Not Enough

Derek Thompson The Atlantic

$21M B'klyn Field Hospital Never Saw a Patient

C. Campanile & N. Musumeci NY Post

What If Mass Unemployment Is Here to Stay?

J.C. Pan The New Republic

Federal Aid to States Should Come with a Hitch

Jared Carl RealClearMarkets

Illinois' Small Businesses Struggle to Weather Lockdown

Hilary Gowins City Journal

World's 25 Richest Gained Nearly $255B In Just Two Months

J. Ponciano Forbes

We Can't Afford a Wave of COVID-19 Lawsuits

Michael Krauss The Hill

COVID Exposing Wall Street’s Reckless Gamble on Bad Debt

John Cassidy NY'er

Tuesday, May 26

US Women Across Races Are Marrying Less. Why?

Robert Cherry Quillette

Why This New Yorker Returned to the Midwest

Aaron Renn The American Conservative

White Backlash Controls American Progress

Lawrence Glickman The Atlantic

Pandemic Is Driving Conservative Intellectuals Mad

Matthew Sitman New Republic

Coronavirus Deadliest Where Dems Live

Jennifer Medina & Robert Gebeloff NY Times

Where States’ Rainy Day Funds Stand

David T. Mitchell & Dean Stansel RealClearPolicy

COVID Reveals Desperate Need for Next Gen Wireless

Mario Lopez RealClearPolicy

Shutdown Will Cost Us Millions of Years of Life

Atlas Birge Keeney & Lipton The Hill

Did Japan Beat COVID Without Lockdowns, Testing?

L. Du & G. Huang Bloomberg

Our Economy May Be Headed for a Decade of Depression

Eric Levitz NY Mag

Our Social Nature Makes Nearly Everything Contagious.

Kay Hymowitz City Journal

Humans 'Not Meant to be Alone.' Many Isolated for Months

Alan Gomez USA Today

Wednesday, May 27

Michigan's Dammed

Bill Zeiser City Journal

The Election Scenario Democrats are Dreading

Ryan Lizza & Daniel Lippman Politico

Cuomo's Big Gift to Nursing-Home Exec Campaign Donors

David Sirota Jacobin

San Fran's Window Onto an American Nightmare

Nathan Heller The New Yorker

1 in 5 Teachers Unlikely to Return to Reopened Schools

Susan Page USA Today

The COVID Culture War is Killing Us

Brent Orrell RealClearPolicy

Five Facts About Ranked-Choice Voting

No Labels RealClearPolicy

Arbery’s Death Was Horrible — But Was it Racist?

Coleman Hughes City Journal

Howard Zinn's Assault on Historians -- And America

Mary Grabar RCPublicAffairs

We're Not Polarized Enough

Osita Nwanevu The New Republic

China is Happy to Exploit Greta Thunberg

Daniel Turner Human Events

No 'Dole' for America: How to Recover from COVID

T. Lehrman & A. Shlaes The Hill

Thursday, May 28

Farrow's Botched Journalism is Bad. The Response Is Worse

J. Kay Quillette

In Danger at Home

Naomi Schaefer Riley City Journal

The Toxic Intersection of Racism and Public Space

Brentin Mock CityLab

Lost Generation of Americans Faces Uncertain Future

Steve Israel The Hill

In Rural America, Opioids Kill Many More Than COVID

Karen Rothmyer The Nation

Haven Can’t Fix Employer Health Care

James C. Capretta RealClearPolicy

Pay Cuts are Typically Rare in a Crisis. Not This Time.

Boesler & Pickert Bloomberg

Twitter Has Few Answers About Warning on Trump's Tweets

K. Leetaru RCP

Are Elite Biz Schools Swindling International Students?

Daniel Block Wash Monthly

Trump is Using COVID Against Regulatory State

P. McLaughlin & C. Mulligan RCPolicy

Immigrant Workers Have Always Been Essential

Erica Cuevas & Laura Roberts RCPo

Coronavirus Not an Argument for Medicare-for-All

Grover Norquist RealClearHealth

Friday, May 29

Across the Wide, Growing American Divide

Victor Davis Hanson National Review

Don’t Bother Learning to Code

Pedro Gonzalez The American Mind

This Summer Will Scar Young Americans for Life

Annie Lowrey The Atlantic

Leftist Filmmaker Michael Moore Exposes 'Green' Energy

Steve Hayward RCEnergy

Five Facts About Seeking a COVID-19 Vaccine

No Labels RealClearPolicy

CA Dems Using Virus as Distraction to Resume Racial Preferences

Siskind TPIB

White Working Class Folks Tiring of Trump’s Act?

Martin Longman Wash Monthly

Florida Shows How to Re-Open the Right Way

Michael Hendrix City Journal

Why SEC Needs to Restrain Proxy Advisors

Gary Wolfram RealClearPolicy

How Mask Mandates Were Beaten Down in Rural Oklahoma

Victor Luckerson NY'er

No, We Shouldn't Cancel Our Debt With China

Brad Polumbo The Dispatch

Trump Laying Groundwork to Contest Election Results

Ed Kilgore NY Mag

Morning Note Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics

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