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World coronavirus updates: World Bank warns economic pain unavoidable
Axios | staff | 03/31/20

World coronavirus updates: World Bank warns economic pain unavoidable The novel coronavirus has caused a "global shock" and significant economic pain "seems unavoidable in all countries," the World Bank said in an economic update for East Asia and the Pacific on Monday.

The big picture: COVID-19 cases surged past 786,000 and the death toll exceeded 37,800 early Tuesday, per Johns Hopkins data. Italy reported more than 11,500 deaths. ... Read more

U.S. coronavirus updates: Death toll tops 3,000
Axios | Rebecca Falconer | 03/31/20

The U.S. death toll from the novel coronavirus surpassed 3,000 late Monday. The state of play: There were more than 164,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. early Tuesday -- more than any other country in the world, per Johns Hopkins data. The COVID-19 death toll stood at 3,170. The number of recoveries had risen to more than 5,900.

What they're saying: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci told CNN models suggest coronavirus could infect millions of Americans and kill 100,000--200,000, though he stressed the projections are "a moving target." ... Read more

Trump on Coronavirus, a Little History

Exponential Threat | Priorities USA | new 03/24/20 | 0:30

Coronavirus dashboard
Axios | staff | 03/30/20

Coronavirus III | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | 03/30/20 | 19:28

Coronavirus Coverage - March 30 | NBC News | 03/30/20 | Live

Another Victum of the Coronavirus?

Jeffrey Epstein: The Game of the Global Elite | 03/21/20 | 56:42

Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes Australia | 11//10/19 | 45:16

Inside the Harvey Weinstein trial and his guilty verdict | 60 Minutes Australia | 02/24/20 | 32:39

Exiled British Millionaire Exposes America's Darkest Secrets | Shaun Attwood | | 02/14/20 | 1:17:11

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah

Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they've never been seen before. Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. It could be Ebola, avian flu, a drug-resistant superbug, or something completely new. While we can't know which pathogen will cause the next pandemic, by unraveling the story of how pathogens have caused pandemics in the past, we can make predictions about the future.

In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, Shah interweaves history, original reportage, and personal narrative to explore the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between cholera, one of history's most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens, and the new diseases that stalk humankind today.

To reveal how a new pandemic might develop, she tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey, from its emergence in the South Asian hinterlands as a harmless microbe to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world, all the way to its latest beachhead in Haiti. Along the way she reports on the pathogens now following in cholera's footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers coming out of China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast.

By delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next global contagion might look like-- and what we can do to prevent it.

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Antony Loewenstein

Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disaster

Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism--the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain's immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

In her ground-breaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism". Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment": losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.

The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in many parts of the world, from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia and Iraq.

At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization, combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for 50 years.

U.S. coronavirus cases outpace the globe as new hot spots emerge
Axios | Rebecca Falconer | 03/27/20

A second wave of American cities, including Boston, Detroit, New Orleans and Philadelphia, are seeing increases in confirmed coronavirus cases.

The big picture: The U.S. has the most coronavirus cases in the world, exceeding China and Italy with more than 86,000 infections and over 1,200 deaths, per data from Johns Hopkins. ... Read more

Trump Telling it like it is.

Trump blasts 'pathetic' new ad | CNN | old 05/17/16 |1:58

Exponential Threat | Priorities USA | new 03/24/20 | 0:30

Trump team failed to follow NSC's pandemic playbook
Politico | Dan Diamond | 03/26/20

The 69-page document, finished in 2016, provided a step by step list of priorities -- which were then ignored by the administration.

The Trump administration, state officials and even individual hospital workers are now racing against each other to get the necessary masks, gloves and other safety equipment to fight coronavirus -- a scramble that hospitals and doctors say has come too late and left them at risk. But according to a previously unrevealed White House playbook, the government should've begun a federal-wide effort to procure that personal protective equipment at least two months ago.

"Is there sufficient personal protective equipment for healthcare workers who are providing medical care?" the playbook instructs its readers, as one early decision that officials should address when facing a potential pandemic. "If YES: What are the triggers to signal exhaustion of supplies? Are additional supplies available? If NO: Should the Strategic National Stockpile release PPE to states?" ... Read more

Pandemic-Playbook.pdf

Coronavirus dashboard
Axios | staff | 03/25/20

Global: Total confirmed cases as of 9 a.m. ET: 436,159 -- Total deaths: 19,625 -- Total recoveries: 111,822.

U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 9 a.m. ET: 55,225 -- Total deaths: 802 -- Total recoveries: 354. ... Read more

Economists say Trump's coronavirus reopening plan is dead wrong
Axios | Dion Rabouin | 03/25/20

President Trump's proposal to get business around the country back open by Easter Sunday, April 12, will do more harm to the economy if the coronavirus outbreak has not been contained, economists say.

Why it matters: Such a plan would sow uncertainty in markets and among customers and business owners and make the recession longer and harsher. Threat level: "We are still significantly behind the curve in containing coronavirus and reopening the economy for political expediency in the middle of a pandemic, to which no has has an immunity, is absolutely mindless," Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group, tells Axios. ... Read more

Watch Full Coronavirus Coverage - March 25 | NBC News Now | 03/25/20 | (Live Stream)

Coronavirus dashboard
Axios | staff | 03/24/20

Global: Total confirmed cases as of 10 a.m. ET: 392,780 -- Total deaths: 17,159 -- Total recoveries: 102,980.

U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 10 a.m. ET: 46,481 -- Total deaths: 593 -- Total recoveries: At least 178.... Read more

India announces nationwide lockdown to stop spread of coronavirus
Axios | staff | 03/24/20

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday that the entire country will be locked down for three weeks beginning at midnight in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Why it matters: With 1.3 billion people, India is the second-most populated country in the world. India currently has 519 confirmed cases.

Between the lines: Modi hopes to avoid a crisis on the scale of China's or Europe's, but his new measures will have a massive economic cost. ... Read more

Trump Is Raving, Fauci Is Losing and the Virus Is Winning
TheDailyBeast | Margaret Carlson | 03/24/20

After Dr. Anthony Fauci told Science magazine that he can only go so far to correct the president's lies, since "I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down,"

Trump shot back on Twitter that "we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself." ... Read more

President Donald Trump Town Hall | FOX 10 News | 03/24/20 | Live

Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) - March 22nd, 2020 | Meet The Press | NBC News | 03/22/20 | 47:51

Fauci says social distancing is crucial to prevent U.S. from "becoming an Italy" | Face the Nation | 03/22/20 | 7:43

Coronavirus dashboard
Axios | staff | 03/23/20

Global: Total confirmed cases as of 9:30 a.m. ET: 350,536 -- Total deaths: 15,328 -- Total recoveries: 100,182.

U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 9:30 a.m. ET: 35,225 -- U.S. coronavirus case numbers now third-highest in the world. Total deaths: 471 -- Total recoveries: 178. ... Read more

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OK, before I begin this sections I just want to say a couple of words. This weekend, while googling for other information, I ran across Liz Crokin's tweat below. I watched it for a while because it was on QAnon. "Q" has been around for a while, i.e. Alex Jones Show 8 years ago, but he was always mysterious. Yesterday, I decided to see why he had such a following from the Trump Party. Oh, by the way I think this is a different Q from the Qof 8 years ago.

What Sent Me Down the Rabbit Hole
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Q - Dark To Light | 01/27/19 | 4:45

President Trump saved America
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TRNN Documentary: The Bizarre Billionaire that Backed Bannon and Made Trump President | Mercer Family | TRNN | |

The films of Steve Bannon | Quartz | 03/15/17 | 8:46

WATCH LIVE: Dow falls despite latest Fed action to shore up economy | current | Live

The coronavirus jobs apocalypse is here
Axios | Dion Rabouin | 03/20/20

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in two years for the week ending March 14, but that was nothing compared to the absolutely historic wave of job losses economists see coming.

The state of play: Goldman Sachs predicts that more than 2 million Americans will file for unemployment claims by next week, pointing to "an unprecedented surge in layoffs this week."

The upcoming March 15-21 period is expected to see "the largest increase in initial jobless claims and the highest level on record." ... Read more

Mnuchin predicts 'gigantic' fourth quarter after coronavirus rebound.

These guys can't wait so they can do what they did after the 2008 market crash. Remember, Mnuchin was basically given a failed bank and he later went around foreclosing on unfortunate home owners.

Why new diseases keep appearing in China | Vox | 03/06/20 | 8:48

Coronavirus: How the deadly epidemic sparked a global emergency | Four Corners | older02/24/20 | 45:51

Journalist goes undercover at "wet markets", where the Coronavirus started | 60 Minutes Australia | older03/08/20 | 27:30

Vox Netflix Show 'Explained' | The Next Pandemic | Netflix | current | 21:00

Trump Kids Grifting Scams Uncovered by the NYT | TYT | 03/11/20 | 10:02

Trump, coronavirus task force speak from the White House | PBS | 03/19/20 | 2:05:18

Mnuchin predicts 'gigantic' fourth quarter after coronavirus rebound
Politico | Myah Ward | 03/19/20

"I think you're going to see a lot of pent-up demand," Mnuchin told Maria Bartiromo. "When we get through the next few months and Americans see what's happening, and we have killed this virus, people are going to be comfortable going back to work."

Mnuchin continued: "We're going to be opening back business and people are going to continue what they do. They are going to live. They are going to shop. They are going to eat out. They are going to enjoy restaurants and travel and entertainment and we will go back to a normal world." ... Read more

Mnuchin predicts 'gigantic' fourth quarter after coronavirus rebound.

These guys can't wait sothey can do what they did after the 2008 market crash. Remember, Mnuchin was basically given a failed bank and he later went around foreclosing on unfortunate home owners.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism byNaomi Klein

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, "There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books."

Coronavirus: Record death tolls in Europe | BBC News | 03/19/20 | 9:51

Journalist goes undercover at "wet markets", where the Coronavirus started | 60 Minutes Australia | older03/08/20 | 27:30

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Meet 17-Year-Old Avi Schiffmann Who Runs Coronavirus Tracking Website Used by 40+ Million Globally | DN | 03/17/20 | 14:01

Coronavirus Index: Americans hit by stress, job losses
Axios | Margaret Talev | current

Four in five Americans are worried about the coronavirus, with twice as many Democrats as Republicans saying they're very concerned, according to the nearly 1,100 adults polled for the debut installment of the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.

The stark new reality in America: 10% told not to work in the past week, 10% say they're self-quarantining, and 22% say their mental health got worse in the past week. ... Read more

Trump World and Senate GOPers Want to Jam Pelosi on Coronavirus Stimulus
Daily Beast | Sam Brodey| 03/18/20

As Congress works to pass a coronavirus relief bill authored by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Republicans are approaching the next round of response to the outbreak--a possibly trillion-dollar-plus stimulus bill--with a blunt message to Democrats: this one's ours.

Both privately and publicly, Senate Republicans have groused in recent days about having been sidelined during negotiations over what has become known as the Phase 2 deal to address the coronavirus pandemic. That bill, which passed by an overwhelming bipartisan margin last week in the House, focused on expanding paid sick leave, unemployment insurance and food security for those affected by the coronavirus outbreak, plus increasing testing capability for the virus. ... Read more

WATCH LIVE: President Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force hold news conference | WP | 03/18/20 | Live

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The coronavirus pandemic is a new kind of crisis
Axios | Bryan Walsh | 03/17/20

The coronavirus pandemic is a disaster with no modern parallels, with no escape and no safe harbor. This may be the most sustained period of widespread public pain since World War II.

The big picture: Even the worst catastrophes we've experienced -- from natural disasters to terrorist attacks -- have happened in one place, at one time. But global reach of the coronavirus, and the societal and economic shutdowns it's triggering, will touch everyone, everywhere, for a long time. ... Read more

Trump sees the coronavirus as a threat to his self-interest -- not to people
TheGuardian | Adam Gaffney | 03/17/20

Trump has made it clear he sees this pandemic chiefly as a threat to the market and wealthy peoples' interests (and relatedly, his political future)

Afictional film about a US president mismanaging the response to a dangerous pandemic would never depict its lead character anywhere near as selfish and bumbling as Donald Trump in the age of Covid-19. He'd be too cartoonish and inept to be believable.

And yet, here we are. At a press conference Sunday -- the same day that state governors declared closures of bars and restaurants and when the Covid-19 death count shot up in Italy -- the American president spent more time gushing over the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut, heaping praise on big corporate retailers for keeping Americans well-supplied, and praising Friday's rise in the stock market ("almost 2,000 points!") than, say, addressing the health concerns of the public. ... Read more

Coronavirus
Axios | staff | -3/16/20

CDC recommends that for the next 8 weeks, organizers cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the U.S.

Senate scrambles on coronavirus package as U.S. begins to shut down
Politico | Marianne Levine | 03/16/20

The Senate will return to Washington Monday to work on a multi-billion dollar coronavirus package as the number of cases across the country continues to grow, the Trump administration struggles to coordinate its response and Wall Street slides further into bear territory.

The Senate is expected to take up this week the massive bipartisan emergency package from the House to address the pandemic, after canceling its week-long recess. But much uncertainty remains over timing and logistics, despite mounting public pressure and the stock market taking a serious hit as the global pandemic continues to spread and daily life in the U.S. is severely disrupted. ... Read more

Live Coronavirus updates: all foreign travel to EU set to be banned
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How the Mainstream Media Ignores the Climate Change Crisis | TRNN | older 05/12/19 | 12:39

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-latest-developments-8b8990c4-6762-494a-8ee0-5091746bda9b.html
Axios | on-going | 03/06/20

Washington state health officials confirmed an eleventh coronavirus-related death on Thursday, bringing the U.S. total to 12, including one casualty in California. Maryland announced its first official cases of the virus on Thursday, and Colorado public health officials are monitoring a presumptive positive case of COVID-19.

The big picture: Governments around the world are scrambling to combat the virus. COVID-19 has infected more than 100,000 people in 90 countries and territories, mostly in mainland China, which has seen a slowdown of new infections. The global death toll is more than 3,400. ... Read more

Coronavirus Threatens Rich People's Money. It Threatens Our Lives.
The Daily Beast | Elizabeth Spiers | 03/05/20

On Monday, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak posted an ominous tweet from the West Coast Sports Institute in Santa Clara, California: "Checking out Janet's bad cough. Started Jan. 4. We had just returned from China and may have both been patient zero in U.S."

A litany of jokes about apples a day and Macs being virus-resistant ensued, though it was unclear whether the billionaire genuinely thought he and his wife were potentially transmitting the 2019 novel coronavirus to the United States. Wozniak's wife, Janet, later told USA Today that her ailment appeared to be a sinus infection.

In some ways, the story did not differ much from that of any non-millionaire couple. Janet had apparently been sick and may have waited to see a doctor, fairly common behavior in a country where seemingly routine visits can result in astronomical and unexpected bills, though that was almost certainly not the rationale for any delay in her seeking treatment.... Read more

How Biden became the overnight Democratic frontrunner
Axios | Mike Allen | 03/05/20

The most impressive aspect of Joe Biden's performance on Super Tuesday was its breadth, according to Dave Wasserman, House editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, and NBC News contributor.

Why it matters: Biden won "urban voters, upscale & middle-class suburban voters AND rural/Appalachian voters. Just about the only places he didn't win were heavily Latino or progressive activist hotbeds like college towns." ... Read more

Coronavirus: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | 03/02/20 | 20:09

Elizabeth Warren drops out of Democratic presidential race
TheGuardian | Joan Greve | 03/05/20

Joe Biden applauded Elizabeth Warren after she announced her withdrawal from the presidential primary, calling the Massachusetts senator "the fiercest of fighters for middle class families."

After his strong performance on Super Tuesday, Biden is looking like the frontrunner in the race, and some have speculated about what role Warren could serve in his potential administration.

However, the two candidates have a number of policy differences on a wide range of issues, including healthcare and student debt. ... Read more

CDC Testing Limits May Have Delayed Coronavirus Response In Washington State
HP | Mary Papenfuss | 03/05/20

Genetic sequencing of two cases of the novel coronavirus in Washington state suggests the disease had been circulating in the state for six weeks -- but went undetected because of strict testing restrictions set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a scientist who compared the genetic fingerprints.

The study of the coronavirus contracted by a high school student in Snohomish County north of Seattle links the illness to the very first COVID-19 case in the nation, a man who tested positive Jan. 19 after returning to his home in Snohomish County from China. He has since recovered, but the illness was passed on, undetected, via community transmission for "the past six weeks," noted Trevor Bedford, an associate professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington. ... Read more

Stock traders expect stimulus to save the day despite coronavirus fears
Axios | Dion Rabouin | 03/03/20

News about the coronavirus outbreak got worse on Monday, but stock traders saw a stimulus bat-signal in the sky and sent the Dow to its biggest points gain on record -- 1,294 points.

Why it happened: Stock prices jumped after it was confirmed that finance ministers and central bank governors from each of the G7 countries would hold a conference call Tuesday morning, presumably to announce coordinated stimulus measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

The IMF and World Bank also released a joint statement saying both institutions "stand ready to help" and would "use our available instruments to the fullest extent possible, including emergency financing, policy advice, and technical assistance."

However, while G7 finance ministers and central bankers confirmed that they "stand ready to cooperate further," they ultimately stopped short of committing to a specific stimulus package, per the Wall Street Journal. ... Read more

The Surreal Scene Inside America's Coronavirus Hot Zone
TheDailyBeast | Lynne Peeples | 03/03/20

KIRKLAND, Washington -- Across the street from the Life Care Center, the nursing home where several residents have succumbed to the 2019 novel coronavirus, Judy Ramsdell on Monday braved the rain to toss a handful of recyclables into a large green bin.

At 75, Ramsdell is of similar age to some of her nursing home neighbors who have fallen ill with the coronavirus that has emerged from Wuhan, China, and infected roughly 90,000 people worldwide, killing 3,000, including six inside the United States. ... Read more

Super Tuesday: Which Side are You On?
TheIntercept | author | date

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY establishment is rapidly consolidating around the candidacy of Joe Biden as its best chance to stop Bernie Sanders' drive to the Democratic nomination. This week on Intercepted: It's Super Tuesday and the battle lines are drawn in a campaign that will not only determine who will face Donald Trump in the general election, but also the future of the Democratic Party. The Intercept's Lee Fang discusses who is funding and running the Biden campaign, the role of dark money in the attack against Sanders, and the looming influence of super delegates. As the Democratic establishment intensifies its battle to ward off a Sanders insurgency, former Hillary Clinton adviser Peter Daou describes why he is now backing Sanders. Daou also discusses the opposition files compiled on Sanders and rejects the claims he has not been "vetted." ... Read more

Coronavirus: four new cases detected in England, taking UK total to 40 -- live updates
TheGuardian | Damien Gayle | 03/02/20

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has published an up to date list of cases of infection and fatality within the European economic area, the UK, San Marino, Monaco and Switzerland, Daniel Boffey reports.

There have been 2,199 cases and 38 deaths reported: Italy (1,689), France (130), Germany (129), Spain (83), UK (36), Switzerland (24), Norway (19), Sweden (14), Austria (14), Netherlands (13), San Marino (8), Greece (7), Croatia (7), Finland (6), Denmark (4), the Czech Republic (3), Iceland (3), Romania (3), Belgium (2), Estonia (1), Ireland (1), Lithuania (1), Luxembourg (1) and Monaco (1).

The EU organisation said that of the fatalities 35 deaths were in Italy; two deaths have been reported in France, and one death has been reported from San Marino. ... Read more

Fears: Coronavirus Undetected in WA. For Weeks?
HP | Mary Papenfuss | 03/01/20

Genetic sequencing of two cases of the novel coronavirus in Washington state suggests the disease had been circulating in the state for six weeks -- but went undetected because of strict testing restrictions set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a scientist who compared the genetic fingerprints.

The study of the coronavirus contracted by a high school student in Snohomish County north of Seattle links the illness to the very first COVID-19 case in the nation, a man who tested positive Jan. 19 after returning to his home in Snohomish County from China. He has since recovered, but the illness was passed on, undetected, via community transmission for "the past six weeks," noted Trevor Bedford, an associate professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington. ... Read more

Coming Plague - Newly Emerging Diseases In A World Out Of Balance by Laurie Garrett

Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases--HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable. She argues that it is not too late to take action to prevent the further onslaught of viruses and microbes, and offers possible solutions for a healthier future.

A Coronavirus PSA From Vice President Mike Pence | | 02/28/20 | 1:05

Inside the Bernie economy
Axios | Dion Rabouin | 03/02/20

The economy according to Bernie Sanders looks unlike anything any politician this close to the presidency has ever put forth before. It's a rethinking of the entire American economic model.

What it means: To understand the Bernie economy -- his plans for free health care, college tuition and a government-guaranteed job for every American -- it helps to view it through the lens of modern monetary theory, or MMT. ... Read more

Pete Buttigieg suspends presidential campaign
Axios | Alexi McCammond | 03/02/20

The big picture: The 38-year-old, gay, former small-town mayor ran a historic campaign and shocked the political world by surging to the top of the Democratic field and winning the Iowa caucuses in January. But his inability to gain traction with black voters, as exemplified by his poor showing in Saturday's South Carolina primary, called into question the long-term viability of his campaign.

Between the lines: It's not yet clear which candidate will benefit from Buttigieg's exit. He was widely perceived as sharing a moderate ideological lane with Joe Biden, the winner of the South Carolina primary, but a recent Morning Consult poll showed a tight race for second-choice among Buttigieg supporters. ... Read more