Our Population Has Shrunk Since the Election
By any reasonable estimate we will be a smaller country on Inauguration Day 2021 than we were on Election Day 2020.
Category: Pandemic
COVID-19 Was a Political Gift Trump Wasted
Why didn’t Trump capitalize on the Reichstag fire moment offered by the pandemic to enact his nativist agenda?
Update: Where the Vaccine Race Stands
This is an update to an October 13 post on the status of vaccine production.
Where the Vaccine Race Stands
Across 2021, we will only make significant progress against the pandemic by also doing the things we needed to do in 2020.
Trump Decided to Kill a Bunch of Gold Star Mothers
How many of these families, who already paid the ultimate price for their patriotism, will pay with yet another loss?
School Reopening Is Everything You Need to Know About America
Until we have a competent federal response to this pandemic, our efforts to get kids back in school are just pissing in the wind.
A New Signal in the COVID-19 Data
Growth in states that voted for Trump is still higher than the rest of the country.
There Are Consequences
The correlation between voting for Trump and growth is becoming clearer and clearer in the statistics, even if it isn’t being acknowledged on the ground.
Lockdowns Were Never A Solution
Now we’re going to do this the hard way, a painful reminder that politics is always a matter of life and death.