Plus, Democrats get a small request on government funding. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for September 23, 2020.
Europe
Posted inCoronavirus
We Need to Reopen Schools—but How?
While more than 20 European countries have reopened schools, America seems unable even to approach the problem rationally.
Posted inCoronavirus
France’s ‘Deconfinement’ Plan
France has announced a carefully phased plan for easing the severe restrictions imposed in mid-March. The strategy is far more coherent, cautious, and realistic than the miraculous ‘reopening’ envisioned by U.S. authorities.
Posted inCoronavirus
Viktor Orban’s Viral Authoritarianism
The public-health crisis is real—and is being used to further legitimize authoritarianism in Hungary.
Posted inWorking in America
Why American Workers Have Been Left Out of Our Life-and-Death Decision-Making
While European workers have helped shape their nations’ coronavirus policies, most of their U.S. counterparts have no unions to give them a voice.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Death in Venice and America
Reflections on the fragility of culture in a time of pandemic
Posted inAmerica and the World
France Turns to Citizen-Legislators to Craft Climate Reforms
Can a small group of randomly selected people succeed where French politicians have failed?
Posted inAmerica and the World
Shock & Roll
A neo-Nazi commercial empire, a German minister, and the fight for a country’s soul
Posted inAmerica and the World
Et Tu, U.K.?
Labour’s wipeout in yesterday’s British election highlights the transnational defection of the white working class and deepens the global crisis of the social democratic left.
Posted inBooks
The Crash of Austerity Economics
Reality keeps contradicting the sponsors of economic pain, but they keep dispensing their perverse advice.