Reuters

The force transforming Western liberalism has many hashtags and slogans, but no one name that everyone can recognize as a singular description of the thing itself. Whatever this is, it is not Barack Obama–era liberalism, but a much more revolutionary successor, writes Ross Douthat.

Reuters

Joe Biden’s continued advocacy of muddled and mistaken foreign policies shouldn’t be overlooked, and he can best help his cause by quietly rebooting them, writes Kori Schake.

Reuters

Many Americans living outside big cities have not been personally touched by the pandemic as a disease, instead experiencing it as a problem because of the steps authorities have taken to control the spread of the virus. Charles Murray examines the effect of the lockdown on small towns, cities, and the countryside.

Reuters

The public looks to public health experts for an appraisal of risks, not whether they are worth taking. The response of the public-health establishment to recent protests has badly damaged its integrity. It matters now, when a virus still prowls the country, and it will matter later, when the next epidemic hits, argues Sally Satel.

Reuters

Scott Gottlieb and Lauren Silvis lay out a plan for how businesses can deploy routine testing and tools like pooling samples to detect outbreaks as the country begins to reopen.

Reuters

In a new working paper, Benedic N. Ippolito uses credit reports, survey data, and two natural experiments that increase health insurance coverage—Medicare eligibility and the Affordable Care Act’s under 26 provision — to study the financial protection provided by health insurance.

AEI

Thursday, June 18, 2020 | 2:00–3:00 p.m. EDT

The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the global economy into its worst recession in the past 90 years and has delivered a severe blow to practically every economy in the world. At this event, Geoffrey Okamoto, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will discuss how the IMF now views the world economic outlook and how it is adapting its policies to serve best its membership at this challenging time.

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