This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: The New York Times
Mar 18, 2020
Janitors are going into offices to battle the invisible germs that threaten public health, sometimes without adequate protection or information about what they are facing.
Source: New York Times
Mar 18, 2020
As more cafes, restaurants and hotels shut down, millions of workers will need help to survive.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 18, 2020
by Kevin Carey
Charter schools and testing were supposed to right historic wrongs. Now they’ve run out of political steam. What happened?
Source: Washington Post
Mar 18, 2020
“He’s likely to be responsible for many deaths,” Max Skidmore, a political science professor and the author of a book on presidential responses to pandemics, told me.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Mar 18, 2020
Because of COVID-19, most professors and students suddenly find themselves forced to use technology as they teach and learn. A panel of experts explores whether that will help or hurt attitudes about online education.
Source: New York Times
Mar 18, 2020
The retailer is trying to do two contradictory things: Ban hate literature but allow free speech.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 18, 2020
by Max Boot
We should not be especially surprised by our failure at pandemic-fighting, because if we are being honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that the United States has long been failing.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 18, 2020
New signs emerged of communication between the two camps as some Democrats hoped for a swift end to a bruising primary.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 18, 2020
by Graeme Wood
Controversies like these are a perfect example of what Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign manager, called “flooding the zone with s&%t”—distracting us from what matters with copious flushes of what doesn’t.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 18, 2020
by Stuart Stevens
Those of us in the Republican Party built this moment. Now the nation must live with those consequences.
Source: New York Times
Mar 17, 2020
Hospital ships stayed in port, veterans hospitals awaited orders and requests for help went unanswered, as much of the government remained on the sidelines.
Source: Independent
Mar 17, 2020
This temporary suspension of shipments by third-party sellers will go through April 5.
Source: New York Times
Mar 17, 2020
Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong offer successful strategies, at least so far, in battling a pandemic. But they use tactics that the U.S. and Europe may not be able to replicate.
Source: New York Times
Mar 17, 2020
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Susan Ellenberg and Michael Levy
No one knows for sure how long social distancing will have to last to reduce the spread to near zero. But if South Korea and China are appropriate exemplars, we’ll need to stay apart now for at least eight weeks, and maybe more.
Source: The Conversation
Mar 16, 2020
by David Pride
I can think of nothing better than "That Escalated Quickly" to describe what has been going on in the U.S. with the coronavirus outbreak.
Source: Politico
Mar 16, 2020
In a tabletop exercise days before an untested new president took power, officials briefed the incoming administration on a scenario remarkably like the one he faces now.
Source: NBC News
Mar 16, 2020
Even if the research goes well, a vaccine wouldn’t be available for widespread use for 12 to 18 months.
Source: New York Times
Mar 16, 2020
by Robert Draper
Throughout his insurgent campaign, he remained steadfast in his radical vision—and forced a reckoning for the Democratic Party.
Source: Baltimore Sun
Mar 16, 2020
Gov. Larry Hogan took the unprecedented step of shutting down all Maryland bars, restaurants, movie theaters and gyms.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 16, 2020
The Dow plunges 2,300 points as a brutal coronavirus-fueled sell-off intensifies.
