In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.
Crises like the one we're in upend the social order, reveal long-festering conflicts, and throw open the doors to futures both bleak and transformative. We can emerge from this crisis a more just society.
To protect the currency supply, the director of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia suspended operations during each outbreak of yellow fever with a guarantee of half pay for the two to three months that yellow fever lasted.
"I take my own job seriously, but nothing I do will ever be as significant as what my wife, who prevents and treats infections, is doing right now," writes history professor Jonathan Zimmerman.
