Bad Dogs, Old Tricks
Let’s start with a metaphor: Imagine a giant toilet filled with diarrhea is overflowing and the government proposes a tax holiday on plungers as the solution.
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Belief-Scarring: Why Our Economic Wounds May Last
After this pandemic, the risk of another may be even lower than before. But it won’t feel that way. That matters.
On Coughing Cops
A mask is a cloth buy-in to a social contract. Law enforcement consider themselves exempt.
Watch the Trains
At first thought, mass transit seems fundamentally incompatible with a world defined by a viral disease—but not necessarily. In fact, the oil slick mystery liquid of a subway platform makes an apt mirror to American politics as a whole.