To keep discord over money from poisoning the cooperative tenor of the national response to the pandemic, Congress will need to divide the aid it offers to states into several distinct categories, each with its own set of rules, writes Yuval Levin.
Nicholas Eberstadt explains that a free and democratic Korean Peninsula is the only answer to the North Korean nuclear threat; in the meantime, we should seek to diminish Pyongyang's military capabilities.
Continuing spread at something near current levels may become the cruel “new normal,” writes Scott Gottlieb. Hospitals and public health systems will have to contend with persistent disease and death.
The scale of economic collapse associated with the coronavirus pandemic highlights the urgency of keeping workers connected with their employers and finding ways to bring the unemployment rate down rapidly, explains Michael Strain.
Adam White writes that in the short term, the COVID-19 crisis will justify temporary, targeted regulatory relief. In the long term, it will challenge regulators to apply the crisis’ lessons in reforming and modernizing the administrative state.
Families and communities need schools to be ready to reopen as soon as public health officials signal it is safe. A number of public health officials have indicated that they expect schools will likely be able to reopen this fall. The authors of this report sketch a framework that can help state policymakers, education and community leaders, and federal officials plan appropriately for reopening.
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