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The right’s position on the virus shows how a failed administration fights when cornered• See all our coronavirus coverage• Coronavirus – latest updates The one welcome casualty of the coronavirus pandemic ought to be the culture wars. If it achieves nothing else, the health crisis has revealed the emptiness of leaders who manufacture nationalist fears […] More
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin: coronavirus is ‘unique situation’ Dr Anthony Fauci: ‘Life is not going to be the way it used to be’ Trump’s testing failures pave way to disaster, experts say Coronavirus outbreak – live updates The Trump administration on Sunday sought to downplay fears of a recession tied to the coronavirus pandemic, as Treasury […] More
Trump’s response has been inadequate but the system is rigged anyway. As always, the poor will be hit hardest Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Dr Anthony S Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and just about the only official in the Trump administration trusted to tell […] More
Andy Slavitt, formerly Medicare and Medicaid administrator, tweets outline of threat after ‘Trump’s months-long denial’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Hospitals in the US could be overrun by coronavirus cases in little more than a week, a former Obama administration senior health official has warned, fearing a “tsunami-like” escalation that would […] More
Vice-President is leading White House taskforce on outbreak Republicans are only ‘pushing back’, Pence claims Robert Reich: Trump’s cuts have made the danger far worse When Donald Trump Jr said Democrats hope coronavirus “kills millions of people” in the US because they want to bring his father down, he was merely “pushing back” at politicisation […] More
Robert O’Brien says he has not seen evidence Russia is boosting Trump but seizes on report Moscow is backing Bernie Sanders Donald Trump’s national security adviser has said he has not “seen any intelligence that Russia is doing anything” to get the president re-elected, but also seemed to accept reports that Russia is backing Bernie […] More
Facing existential challenges, we must spend heavily on a Green New Deal, Medicare for All and similar plans In Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, the former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg charged that the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ policy proposals would cost $50tn. Holy Indiana. Related: Wisconsin’s dairy farmers see bleak future for ‘America’s Dairyland’ Continue […] More
More than 1,000 public servants decry presidential interference Aide Conway claims justice system rigged against Trump Robert Reich: assaulting justice, Trump has out-Nixoned Nixon More than 1,000 former US justice department officials, including some of the top government lawyers in the country, have called on attorney general William Barr to resign in the wake of […] More
