The Long Version
ArchiveTopDiscussion
In 2004, after years of personal and business failures, Donald Trump sat down with Playboy for his big comeback interview. His reputation was on the up…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
May 22
Everyone has the same question right now: Why isn’t this over yet? Jeremy Konyndyk, who led the U.S. government response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, ha…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
May 15
COVID-19 in America is the perfect Donald Trump disaster. It is like everything he has done in his nearly 74 years on Earth: predictable, wasteful, and…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
May 7
Over the last forty-eight hours or so, there has been a noticeable uptick in reporting about the rising cost in human lives of the coronavirus pandemic…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Apr 30
Audio Edition: The Pandemic Prevention Project Trump Gutted in 2019Listen now (34 min) | Trump has described COVID-19 as a problem that “came out of nowhere.” “Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could hav…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Apr 10 2
Ask Katz Anything: Pandemic Disaster EditionHello! I’ve had a lot of experience covering disasters—disease-related and otherwise—as a journalist (see fig. 1, above). With all of us navigat…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Mar 30 73
With so many of us stuck at home—and more who wish they were—I thought it would be a good time to host an open discussion thread. Tomorrow (Monday) at …
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Mar 30
Trump’s failed efforts to cover up the scale of the epidemic in the United States is why a complete economic shutdown was necessary in the first place.…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Mar 25 7
Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan Myerson Katz. The right wing’s pivot from murderous denial to racist blame-shifting was the …
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Mar 20 3
With this new virus and all, I'm starting to think that giving Trump the reins of the federal bureaucracy was a mistake
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Mar 19 4
Our leaders have failed us on Covid-19. But more of us can get through it if we work together.
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Mar 13 3
There is strong reason to believe the real toll of coronavirus in the US is much higher than we know, and being underreported for political reasons. Th…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Mar 4
© 2020 Jonathan Myerson Katz. See privacy and terms
Publish on Substack