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ComPost Live with Alexandra Petri
Send in your questions to Alexandra Petri, who'll offer a lighter take on the news and political in(s)anity of the day.
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Pop Culture Live with Alyssa Rosenberg
Send in your questions to Alyssa Rosenberg about pop culture.
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The Latest: Spain reports 809 more deaths, 7,026 new cases
Spain has reported 809 new deaths over the last 24 hours
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Deaths of doctors, nurses highlight virus risks they run
Air raid sirens sounded across China and flags flew at half staff in a tribute Saturday to victims of the coronavirus pandemic including the health care “martyrs” who have died while fighting to save others
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Who cares where we get coronavirus aid from, even if it's Russia?
Typically, the United States is the country that opens up the humanitarian spigots and sends aid shipments to foreign governments in distress. On Thursday, however, the tables were turned — and a lot of people aren’t thrilled about it.
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Letters to the Editor: Time for Obama and other ex-presidents to come to our rescue
Trump's leadership is inadequate in one of the worst crises ever. Perhaps typically quiet ex-presidents can put forth a plan for a national lockdown.
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Letters to the Editor: Going to church doesn't make you a good believer, especially during a pandemic
If spirituality is about the individual, then a few weeks for legally mandated isolation might actually be good for the soul.
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How We Lost the War on Poverty
Great Society: A New History, by Amity Shlaes, HarperCollins, 429 pages, $32.50
With John F. Kennedy's election to the presidency in 1960, Amity Shlaes recounts, Americans developed a growing urge for a "big change that blasted like a space rocket." By 1972, when the smoke from that rocket had somewhat cleared, they had acquainted themselves with the New Frontier, the Vietnam War, the moon landing, two landmark civil rights acts, Medicare, Medicaid, the New Federalism, the "urban disorders" of...
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Opinion: We're talking a lot about seniors and coronavirus. Here, they talk for themselves
Not surprisingly, our older letter writers have opinions when politicians suggest they should sacrifice their health for the economy.
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Op-Ed: How Republicans are using the pandemic to suppress the vote
In November, Republican lawmakers could close polling places in Democratic areas and even prevent people from voting directly for the president.
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Letters to the Editor: Pot vaping was ruining lungs before COVID-19, and now cannabis is 'essential'?
An ER doctor criticizes Gov. Newsom for deeming the marijuana business essential amid a pandemic that causes deadly pneumonia.
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Wear a mask: it may be our best weapon against coronavirus
The science is clear: even people without symptoms can infect other just by speaking but a simple cloth covering can stop us spreading harmful dropletsCoronavirus – latest US updatesCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageYou might walk into stores over the next few days and sicken dozens without knowing it. Some might die. Others will think they are dying before they recover.
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