As the full picture of the economic impacts of the Great Lockdown emerges, there are several sectors that are bracing for the full financial hit (think state budgets which will no doubt crater as all
With the collapse of the entire world economy overnight, exports have plummeted, which means that at least for now, there is lots of meat in the United States. But that is not necessarily stable, espe
MAGA! As Liberty University’s spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Liberty’s student health service about the rampagi
Long-time friend of LGM Gabriel Rosenberg has an op-ed in the Washington Post on what we can learn from the history of animal quarantines, which is that we should pay everyone a lot of money to stay a
Over at the Duck of Minerva, two Indiana University professors – Jeffrey C. Isaac and W. Kindred Winecoff – have a post about the petition they’ve been circulating to protect the integrity o
Is it just me or does this seem ridiculously optimistic? A leading epidemiologist advising the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated the peak of deaths in the US coronavirus pand
There are a variety of forces pushing the United States toward the exit for global hegemony, but none is quite so frustrating as the Trump administration’s simple abdication from exercising lead
While Trump will murder many Americans through his sheer incompetence in admitting that COVID-19 is even a thing and then his malevolent incompetence in dealing with it, I’ve been somewhat surpr