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America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against more than COVID-19.

The Way of the Gun

Death by firing squad has come back to America.

His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade

A visit with a family in mourning

Trump Drops the Mask

The president’s latest positions on the Russia-Ukraine war reveal that he is indifferent to ongoing slaughter—indeed, he is willing to increase it.

The Only Question Trump Asks Himself

Trump does not do “policy” as Washington understands that term. His approach is personal, transactional, ad hoc, and episodic.

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