Florida will be the epicenter of the epidemic in the US in a couple of weeks. Nobody could have seen that coming, though, especially the state’s Trump-worshiping governor.
Author: Paul Campos
Stanford law school professor Pamela Karlan’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee regarding the impeachment of Donald Trump: What would you think if, when your governor asked the federal
A citizen of Sarajevo, a woman of impeccable adherence to the Yugoslav ideal, whom I met soon after arriving in the city the first time in April 1993, told me: “In October 1991 1 was here in my
As is so often the case, this headline about Trump’s behavior reads like some sardonic parody. It isn’t: it’s a factual description of the situation: After President Donald Trump issued scathing comments about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying she’s “not stepping up,” and “doesn’t know what’s going on,” she told WWJ 950 the state is […]
My plan is: Start working now — today — toward this goal. And I won’t let anything stop me. You say I’m 60 years old and have always had below average athletic ability? This ov
Last week (which seems like a couple of years ago now), the Imperial College of London published a study that predicted 500,000 and 2,200,000 deaths from coronavirus in the UK and US respectively if n
A record number of Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, as businesses shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus.Initial jobless claims soared to a seasonally adjusted 3.28 million in the week ended March 21, according to the Department of Labor.That is the highest number of initial jobless claims […]
He’s going to try to pull the plug on the whole social distancing strategy very very soon. What he doesn’t understand is everything, but in particular that under our American Way of Life t
The whole “cure is worse than the disease” argument ought to be considered in the light of a little-known and counter-intuitive but nevertheless well-documented fact: mortality rates tend
The most important gap in the medical and scientific community’s knowledge regarding COVID-19 remains this: The prevalence of the virus in various national populations at any moment remains almost wholly speculative. The media routinely report that there are, for example, 54,968 cases of the virus in the US (the figure as I type this). It’s […]
With the exception of the first few weeks after he took office. I realize there’s a rally around the flag effect at work here, and we shouldn’t make too much of this, but nevertheless it&#
The Sanders campaign sent out an email this morning, announcing it was ramping up for the scheduled April 28th New York primary with thousands of phone bank volunteers and a full-time paid staff. I