"For authoritarian-minded leaders, the coronavirus crisis is offering a convenient pretext to silence critics and consolidate power. Censorship in China and elsewhere has fed the pandemic, helping to…
“Every one of the unprecedented, vastly consequential, health and economic measures that state, local and federal officials have taken up to now...reflects an unarticulated ethical position…
“Every one of the unprecedented, vastly consequential, health and economic measures that state, local and federal officials have taken up to now...reflects an unarticulated ethical position…
"Disease changed the course of the war, and shaped the peace that came afterward, planting the seeds that would destroy Athenian democracy… If the social and moral fiber of a society are already…
"Humankind is now facing a global crisis. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come… When choosing between alternatives, we…
"Trump apparently read from a teleprompter on Wednesday night. After weeks of dismissing the threat of a pandemic and of continuing to obsess about his own personal grievances, he finally sounded…
“With the rapid spread of the virus, Brussels is fumbling, nations are diverging, populists are salivating and the U.S. is erecting barriers against allies” (Steven Erlanger, 2020).
“The political environment that gave anti-union employers a free hand may be changing — the decline of unionization was, above all, political, not a necessary consequence of a changing economy. And…
