This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: The Atlantic
3/24/2020
by Adam Serwer
The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.
Source: The Washington Post
3/21/2020
How Donald Trump's leadership - or lack thereof - is impacting this crisis.
Source: Washington Post
3/19/2020
It is possible that the impending recession could be more devastating than the 2008 financial crisis.
Source: Task and Purpose
3/24/2020
"This is a telling indicator of leadership failure," said one Army officer.
Source: New York Times
3/23/2020
Mr. Trump knows that Dr. Fauci, who has advised every president since Ronald Reagan, is seen as credible with a large section of the public and with journalists.
Source: The New York Times
3/18/2020
Janitors are going into offices to battle the invisible germs that threaten public health, sometimes without adequate protection or information about what they are facing.
Source: Deadline
3/22/2020
The White House Correspondents’ Association has canceled its April 25 annual dinner because of the coronavirus crisis.
Source: NBC News
3/22/2020
While the White House has stood by President Donald Trump's frequent use of the phrase "Chinese virus" in reference to COVID-19 experts say the argument just doesn't hold up.
Source: TIME
3/24/2020
Since the first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, only three have been abandoned.
Source: Washington Post
3/23/2020
Trump is considering easing restrictions on movement sooner than federal public health experts recommend, in the name of reducing the virus’s economic damage.
Source: New York Times
3/22/2020
The 48-year-old Lachlan Murdoch stood by as Fox News hosts played down the danger of the deadly coronavirus to their viewers.
Source: New York Times
3/18/2020
As more cafes, restaurants and hotels shut down, millions of workers will need help to survive.
Source: ArtForum
3/24/2020
Critic, curator, and cultural historian Maurice Berger, whose work examined the role of race in visual culture, has died of complications related to the novel coronavirus.
Source: Washington Post
3/23/2020
by Max Boot
Today, the lions are the medical professionals risking their lives to fight the worst pandemic in a century. They are being betrayed by many of their political leaders.
Source: History.com
3/23/2020
The Cold War-era law went into effect during a time when President Truman felt the nation was unprepared.
Source: New York Tims
3/22/2020
The president is portraying himself as a take-charge leader the country can’t afford to lose.
Source: Associated Press
3/23/2020
Most American presidents will confront a crisis—or crises—before they leave office, whether it is a natural disaster, war, economic downturn, public health threat or terrorism.
Source: Washington Post
3/18/2020
by Kevin Carey
Charter schools and testing were supposed to right historic wrongs. Now they’ve run out of political steam. What happened?
Source: Washington Post
3/18/2020
“He’s likely to be responsible for many deaths,” Max Skidmore, a political science professor and the author of a book on presidential responses to pandemics, told me.
Source: New York Times
3/22/2020
In interviews with a dozen of the world’s leading experts on fighting epidemics, there was wide agreement on the steps that must be taken immediately.
