IMPORTANT READS

PERSPECTIVE--“Avridamah!!” shouted Matteo, from across the park.

GUEST COMMENTARY--In the midst of  a pandemic that's killed more than 65,000 Americans and infected more than a million,

PANDEMIC POLITICS-A new analysis of financial disclosure documents found that Republican and Democratic members of Congress made nearly 1,500 stock transactions worth up to $158 million between February and April as the coronavirus spread across the U.S., heightening suspicions that elected officials in charge of the federal response to the pandemic have opportunistically cashed in on it. 

PERSPECTIVE--After the demise of the Soviet Union and the US intervention that crushed Saddam Hussein’s attack on Kuwait in 1991, President George H. W. Bush pronounced a new world order.

COVID POLITICS--President Donald Trump's brand of "America First" isolationism was on full display Monday as the U.S. declined to participate in an international pledge drive which raised more than $8 billion during its kick-event to create a global fund to develop and deploy diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

SS WATCH--President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed opposition to providing additional direct relief payments on top of the $1,200 checks that are slowly trickling out to eligible U.S. households, saying he would instead prefer to slash the tax that funds Social Security and Medicare.