China Will Miss American Reporters When They’re Gone The Foreign Press Is Essential to Beijing’s Accountability—and the Country’s Success By John Pomfret FOREIGN AFFAIRS March 20, 2020 China’s expulsion of more than a dozen American journalists is being heralded as another step toward a new Cold War. Chinese officials are crowing about sovereignty; the expulsions, by […]
HAS CORONAVIRUS ALREADY PEAKED? MEDIA HAVE NO IDEA
IF THIS IS THE NEW NORMAL — WHERE INCOMPLETE DATA AND MEDIA-FUELED PANIC RULE THE DAY — THAT IS AN EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING PROSPECT THAN WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW By Julie Kelly “Dangerous Curves” March 19, 2020 If you weren’t very ill in late January or February, you probably know someone who was. The complaints […]
CORONAVIRUS: DID LINCOLN HAVE AN ANSWER FOR US?
COPING WITH THE PANDEMIC: LINCOLN AND THE WISDOM OF THE AGES By Carl M. Cannon Real Clear Politics March 20, 2020 Yesterday, a friend and I were commiserating (digitally, of course) about the uncertainty — and, in some places, misery — of the virus pandemic sweeping the world. He quoted one of the most famous […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #95 — CORONAVIRUS CHAOS with Sen./Dr. John Bizon & Professor/Commissioner Nancy Quarles
YANG’S $1,000 PROMISE MAY REALLY HAPPEN
‘I’ll Be a Very Happy Man.’ Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Turn Andrew Yang’s $1,000 Promise Into Reality? By Abby Vesoulis TIME magazine March 19, 2020 When entrepreneur Andrew Yang announced he was running for President, many considered him to be an unorthodox candidate. As a successful entrepreneur who attended an Ivy League law school and […]
RANKING BIDEN’S TOP 12 POSSIBLE RUNNINGMATES
Biden’s Top 12 Running Mates, Ranked He says he’s going to pick a woman. So which woman should it be? Drew Angerer/Getty Images By BILL SCHER POLITICO March 18, 2020 Joe Biden’s unequivocal declaration that his running mate will be a woman began the 2020 veepstakes with a brutal cut. There will be no consolation […]
CORONAVIRUS: SOME GOOD NEWS FOR HORSE RACING?
Horse Racing Is One of the Last Sports Standing in US Santa Anita held races over the weekend without any fans in attendance Jockey Victor Espinoza wins the Beholder Mile at Santa Anita. Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty By Evan Bleier MEDIA NEWS GROUP March 18, 2020 With nearly every sport in the United […]
SLATEST: JOE BIDEN NEEDS AOC
By León Krauze SLATEST March 15, 2020 A word of advice to Joe Biden after Sunday night’s debate: Call AOC. In the two weeks that have seen Biden take back his position as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, one voice has emerged as the progressive movement’s beacon of clarity. It’s not Bernie Sanders, who […]
REMEMBERING THE 1957 ASIAN FLU EPIDEMIC
SAY YOUR PRAYERS AND TAKE YOUR CHANCES by Clark Whelton, CITY JOURNAL March 13, 2020 Health Care Surrounded by amulets of the coronavirus crisis, I stare out my window at a city that may or may not be on the verge of disaster. To my right is a case of canned pasta. To my left […]