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In his heydey, Mayor Ed Koch relished moving about New York City and asking anyone in earshot, "How'm I doing?" Typically, we New Yorkers woul…
It seems like a lot of NBA basketball players have tested positive for the coronavirus. I'm glad none of them have gotten deathly ill, and I'm…
Are you a small business owner or employee scared stiff about the COVID-19 pandemic putting you out of work? Or a small nonprofit or sole prop…
If you were to get the new coronavirus, would you, should you, let it be widely known? Or to put it another way: Would you want to keep it sec…
Joe Biden's resurgence has been swift and unstoppable. From the cusp of irrelevance, he rocketed to the status of presumptive nominee as Super…
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Commentary: My father's funeral is Friday and because of COVID-19, I can't go. But I will honor him all the same
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Commentary: Trump's racist comments are fueling hate crimes against Asian Americans. Time for state leaders to step in
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Commentary: Meat markets breed killer diseases. Are we just going to ignore them?
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Commentary: Trump seems to think money is free right now. It isn't
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Commentary: Trump's not the first president to face a deadly epidemic. But he may be the least suited for the task
I've got some words for the governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri and the eight other states that have yet to adopt statewide stay-at-home …
In the midst of a global pandemic, President Barack Obama's signature health care reform, the Affordable Care Act, turned 10 years old. It has…
Perhaps the strongest argument against enacting Medicare for All has been that most Americans were happy with their job-based insurance and di…
So how did it start, this "Chinese virus" our president keeps referring to?
Coughing is now a doubly serious concern for Asian Americans. Like everyone else, we're afraid of contracting the coronavirus. As a racial gro…
Donald Trump isn't the first U.S. president to face a deadly new pathogen that wreaks havoc on American life and the wider world. But he may b…
COVID-19 has, to put it mildly, altered our way of life. Most of these changes - like only leaving the house for essential reasons and staying…
In the coronavirus pandemic, hospital bioethics committees - and doctors and nurses - find themselves in confusion over rationing necessary su…
My father's funeral is this Friday, but I won't be there. Just as I wasn't there with him in the intensive care unit a few weeks ago. Or at th…
It's not as big a leap as you might think, from writing a bestseller about a zombie war to lecturing at the Modern War Institute at West Point…
LOS ANGELES - Why should it be easier to buy marijuana than a good book during the coronavirus shutdown? Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and C…
We need to prepare for the possibility, perhaps even the likelihood, that our health care system is on the threshold of becoming overwhelmed, …
I'm a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. My wife is the head of human resources for an infrastructure firm in Canada. She has been w…
"EVACUATION MESSAGE" After a few days of coronavirus-centered speculation, the email subject line - with its caps lock-induced sense of urgenc…
Honey returned to the Botany Pond at the University of Chicago in the first week of March, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic chased almo…
COVID-19. Swine flu. Bird flu. SARS. MERS. Ebola. Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow) disease. Hoof-and-mouth disease. The number of emerging dangerou…
President Donald Trump proclaimed himself the "king of debt" during the 2016 campaign, and he does have a long history of borrowing huge amoun…
President Donald Trump recently signed a coronavirus relief package that extends and enhances benefits for America's rapidly growing numbers o…
In addition to the usual rambling and nonsense, President Donald Trump's daily briefings of efforts to contain and combat the coronavirus have…
The number of cases of COVID-19 is soaring in the United States. The economy is in free fall. Tens of millions of Americans are locked down in…
