Back To School With Betsy And Donald by Nancy OhanianThe Wednesday Washington Post headline was likely chilling for many people: U.S. reports highest number of covid-19 deaths in one day since mid-May.
Many people woke up Monday to read that the U.S. had crossed the 5 million cases mark, just a bit over 2 weeks since passing the 4 million cases mark. As of this morning, the U.S.
Trump Tsunami by Nancy OhanianDavid Feldman tapes a radio show/podcast with me every Monday. The new one-- with special guest eastern Washington state congressional candidate Chris Armitage-- will be posted online late tonight. David and I are pals and it feels like we've known each other for decades.
Wednesday was a horrible day in the history of the pandemic. The U.S. reported 51,097 confirmed new COVID cases. Then Thursday was even worse-- 57,236 new cases. 131,544 Americans have died and of the current cases, 15,907 are serious or critical enough to know that the death rate is likely to go way up.
The Second Spike by Nancy OhanianAlthough the official stats show that the U.S. reached 100,000 COVID deaths on Memorial Day, a report in yesterday's Washington Post by Andrew Ba Tran, Leslie Shapiro and Emma Brown-- Pandemic's Overall Death Toll Likely Surpassed 100,000 Weeks Ago, indicates that the U.S.
Give Him A Break by Chip ProserIf you've been visiting this blog with any regularity since the beginning of 2020, you probably know that we started covering the coronavirus intensely by early February. And we were quick to point out that China was feeding international organizations fake COVID-statistics pretty early on-- as they have continued to do right up until this day. Yesterday, for example, they reported just 2 new cases and no new deaths.
Re-Opening by Nancy OhanianMissouri is no longer a swing state; it's an ugly, garden variety Republican Trump state. The governor and both senators are right-wing Republicans. The state's congressional delegation consists of two establishment Democrats-- one in St. Louis and one in Kansas City-- and 6 entrenched right-wing Republicans.
Russia is battling it out with Brazil for the number 2 spot behind Trumpland for the most cases of COVID-19. Right now Brazil has taken the lead. Though the U.S. seems untouchable in the realm of caseloads-- blowing through the 1,700,000 make yesterday (with 19,790 new cases Sunday), Brazil has been steadily pulling away from Russia over the past few days.
The Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., built to honor the 58,000 Americans killed in that war (Getty Images)by Thomas NeuburgerIt's appropriate to remember, as the end of May approaches, the nation's honored dead. It's also appropriate to remember its forgotten dead, those whose sacrifices are and will be ignored.
