Category: Politics
Texas Relaxes Restrictions as Virus Marches Across the State
by Dudley Althaus | May 1, 2020 | Coronavirus, PoliticsSAN ANTONIO—Under a waning sun this week, a neighbor and I were quaffing takeout craft beers from an otherwise shuttered brew pub on the banks of the San Antonio River, contemplating the looming end of our city’s five weeks of plague-enforced hibernation. Jim Wyatt, 73, is an asthmatic retired economics teacher, union organizer, and reserve […]
Covid-19 Presents a Unique Set of Economic Challenges to Policymakers
by Steven Pressman | Apr 30, 2020 | Coronavirus, EconomyAs I write this, there have been more than 336,000 reported cases of the coronavirus in the United States, and over 9,600 have died from it. Some experts contend that, in the worst possible case scenario, the virus is capable of killing as many as three million Americans. What makes the coronavirus so deadly is […]
Moyers and Daley on the Republican Attack on Voting and the Threat to the Constitution
by Bill Moyers and David Daley | Apr 29, 2020 | Election 2020, PoliticsDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has expressed concern that Donald Trump would try to delay the 2020 election. The conservative majority in the Supreme Court recently refused to extend the deadline for absentee ballots in the Wisconsin primary, forcing those wishing to vote to risk their lives in the middle of the pandemic. The battle […]
The Dark Side of Sunny California
by Setsuko Winchester | Apr 28, 2020 | Politics, RaceCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsome made two groundbreaking public apologies in recent years: one in 2019 to the Native American community for the state’s policy of exterminating its people around the time of statehood in 1851, and the other in February of this year to Japanese Americans for the state’s complicity in the U.S. policy of […]
A Letter from Vietnam
by Andrew Lam | Apr 12, 2020 | Health, PoliticsThe view from my condo overlooking the Saigon River includes much of Ho Chi Minh City’s glittery downtown, with its many newly built high rises and the famous Thu Thiem bridge. On a weekday it is crowded with cars and motorcycles. Today, however, that torrent of humanity has, but for a few straggling motorcycles and […]