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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.…
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Mar 25 5
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 …
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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
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Mar 19 4
Our leaders have failed us on Covid-19. But more of us can get through it if we work together.
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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…
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Mar 4
Strongmen like Xi and Trump won't save us from coronavirus
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Feb 25
A scattershot version of The Long Version this week, as I need to balance a hectic travel schedule with pushing forward on my book. So just a few obser…
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Feb 5
Scenes from "Lobby Day" in Richmond, Virginia
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Jan 21 2
Some "neutral" militias descending on Virginia are using Facebook to promote violence
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Jan 20 1
Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan Myerson Katz. This edition was also published on Slate. I don’t know if we needed a seismic …
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Jan 17
That’s me. Ten years ago Sunday. January 12, 2010. At 4:53 p.m., on a balmy winter’s day in southern Haiti, a fault line no one knew about erupted with…
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Jan 7 2
In this week’s Long Version I cite my fellow Substacker Emily Atkin, whose newsletter, Heated, has become an indispensable daily read on the most urgen…
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Jan 3
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