#PANDEMIC

John Stoehr's Editorial Board

johnastoehr

1. As I said Monday, the new coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to change the minds of dedicated abortion partisans. Those for it are still going to be for it. Those

Jessica Huseman

JessicaHuseman

Let's talk abt how amazing stadiums are for voting in a pandemic: They have ventilation. They are gigantic. Multiple polling stations can be set up. Hundreds of people can vote

Rawr, Quarantine Barback

gaggleflaggle

The church across the street recently began holding a food bank once a week. When they started about 6 weeks ago, there were few cars.Today, there is a line wrapped

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

Post-pandemic dating should be strange, all that time cooped up, self-radicalizing and re-calibrating on increasingly powerful and strange erotica.Everyone's gonna emerge, cicada-like, extremely attracted to extremely weird stuff. "

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. I've been pretty aggressive about pointing out progressives got crushed, but I don't have a strategy going forward. That's because admitting defeat and figuring out what to do has

Utibe R. Essien, MD MPH

UREssien

I was recently asked if I think the definition for “underrepresented in medicine” was too narrow.With 50 (2%) Black faculty and 72 (3%) Hispanic faculty in the School of Medicine,

Hyun Song Shin

HyunSongShin

BIS Bulletin 5 deals with the recent turbulence experienced by emerging market economieshttps://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull05.htm@BIS_org Borrowing in domestic currency has not insulated emerging markets from the global shock unleashed by Covid-19; loca

Rudy Mehrbani

RudyMehrbani

If true, this is a break glass moment for our democracy. And I'm not an alarmist, nor the biggest fan of all IGs. But they play an essential role in

Murph

murphmonkey

Yes, this. "The internet is erasing geography and people can now work from anywhere" has been around in popular media since the 90s.And during that time, cities have become more

Tim Harford

TimHarford

A friend of mine thinks it's too risky to go out, and asked me to do the maths for him. I did:https://www.ft.com/content/176b9bbe-56cf-4428-a0cd-070db2d8e6ff You need to make a lot of assumptions

JustinStillness (Deschamps)

JustnStillness

1) A story of overcoming fear through bravely seeking the truth. 2) They tried to tell me cures for cancer didn't exist. So I dug up the congressional records and

BCTF

bctf

When the pandemic started, the #bced partners came together to help the #bcpoli government develop a 5-stage framework for safe schools. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/k-12/covid-19-safe-schools/five-stages-framework

Racial Health Equity

RacialHealthEq

Our center’s #COVID19 task force has released an open letter to policy makers with 8 recommendations to prioritize equity: 1. Prioritize the needs of diverse vulnerable populations at each stage

NCVO Volunteering

NCVOvolunteers

1/8 Many organisations are furloughing employees in response to the #coronavirus pandemic, but not following the rules from @HMRCgovuk on #volunteering could block their job retention grants. 2/8 Last week,

Ron Hira

RonHira

Will Biden do anything about the corrosive effects of outsourcing on US workers?Doubtful. Larry Summers helped create current international trading regime that shifted wealth and income from US workers to

Teo Comet

teocomet

Madrid's regional election was really interesting and here's why: 1. With a population of 6.8 million, Madrid is Spain's 3rd largest autonomous community (after Andalusia and Catalonia).It has Spain's highest