Articles 2026
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Coronavirus Doesn't Care About Public Opinion and It Still Kills
USA Today, June 09, 2020
Weary of sacrificing freedom, education, jobs and businesses to save the lives of largely anonymous and disproportionately elderly people, increasing numbers of Americans want out of the house.
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Face Mask Volunteers DIY Their Own Kind of Division of Labor
Reason, July 2020
Making masks, face shields, and other protective equipment is the bottom-up, COVID-19 version of rolling bandages or knitting socks for the troops.
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Banning Chinese STEM Students Would Backfire on U.S.
Bloomberg Opinion, May 28, 2020
The net flow of talent and knowledge goes eastward across the Pacific, and China struggles to get scientists to return home. Why make that job easier?
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The Beauty of Fluid Motion
Review of Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion by Vanessa R. Schwartz
The American Scholar, May 20, 2020
How the future became fashionable
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Pandemics Come and Go But Medical Masks Are Eternal
Bloomberg Opinion, April 10, 2020
An illustrated timeline shows how they have brought us together, not kept us apart, over the last 400 years.
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Coronavirus Should Finally Smash the Barriers to Telemedicine
Bloomberg Opinion, April 10, 2020
American physicians, insurers and regulators are pushing the rapid expansion of technologies once confined to optimistic press releases.
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The CDC Should Stop Prioritizing VIPs for Virus Tests
Bloomberg Opinion, March 23, 2020
Even without pull, the rationing criteria used for coronavirus tests around the U.S. make it likely that people in some social and professional circles can get the tests while most can’t.
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Health Workers Deserve Higher Pay. The Economics Are Grim.
Bloomberg Opinion, March 18, 2020
Caregiving is vital, but so labor-intensive that at higher wages, hardly anyone could afford it.
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The World Is a Giant Cruise Ship Called the Covid-19
Bloomberg Opinion, March 03, 2020
Fear of disease can change everyday habits. Sometimes that’s a good thing.
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The Faux Populism of Trumpified Architecture
Bloomberg Opinion, February 11, 2020
An order for designing federal buildings replaces one set of insiders with an even snootier one.