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As the Delta variant ([link removed]) of the coronavirus rages across the United States, new safety protocols are being implemented, or at least proposed. But as Mark Fiore illustrates ([link removed]) this week, many elected officials are making this task more difficult. “Far too many Republican politicians are attempting to hitch their stars to the anti-vaxx, anti-mask crowd,” he says. Meanwhile, as Sarah Lahm reports ([link removed]) from Minnesota, school districts are contending with angry pushback to masking proposals. “We have a right,” she reminds us, “and an obligation to keep our children safe, whether or not it suits Republicans’ increasingly ridiculous attempts at political theater.”

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