Given our bitterly divided politics, it’s surprising and cheering that the Senate managed a unanimous vote in favor of the economic rescue bill, we argue in an editorial this morning.
But before you feel too buoyed, considered what Fareed Zakaria is seeing as he surveys the world: “The United States is on track to have the worst outbreak of coronavirus among wealthy countries, largely because of the ineffectiveness of its government.” And that, he says, is not only about the man who happens to be president right now.
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If the first line of defense against covid-19 is testing, the U.S. experience has been a fiasco.
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Easing budget shortfalls now could make the difference between a recession and a depression.
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The wrong way to help the unemployed.
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The time to start planning is now.
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Time to go on the offense with China
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Post readers share their stories of covid-19.
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To win, Democrats must show they are smart, tough managers.
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So isn't it time to say your health coverage shouldn't be tied to your job?
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Can't we spend more than we did on the 'tax scam'?
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Mobilization, akin to a wartime effort, is where we need the federal government to focus.
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Editorial Cartoons
His tax cuts eliminated our rainy day funds.
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The senator from South Carolina opposes a part of the stimulus bill because he appears to believe others share his value system.
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The Senate could have played politics. Instead, pragmatism prevailed.
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An uncontrolled outbreak in these areas will propel new waves of desperate refugees northward.
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There aren’t enough, and the federal government isn’t managing scarcity.
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International Opinions
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Turks are fighting the coronavirus even as they confront the ignorance that leads to bad policy.
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Even with few cases reported, the coronavirus is already exposing the deep fault lines in India’s society.
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