
The worst is yet to come: Contact tracing, immunity cards and mass testing
No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state.

No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state.

To wait to reopen the economy until the virus was eliminated, which was not the original goal, would be ruinous to the livelihoods and well-being of many.

Bridgewater College is recognizing students for excellence by the department of history and political science.

In at least 10 areas, Donald Trump has inflicted a severe injury on the American public, on the country as a whole, and on America’s reputation abroad.

We are fast becoming a nation—nay, a world—of book burners.

For more than ten years, Netanyahu masterfully used scare tactics to portray the establishment of a Palestinian state as an existential threat to Israel.

How many government incursions into our freedoms have been blacked out, buried under “entertainment” news headlines, or spun in such a way as to suggest that anyone voicing a word of caution is paranoid or conspiratorial?

Just because we’re fighting an unseen enemy in the form of a virus doesn’t mean we have to relinquish every shred of our humanity, our common sense, or our freedoms to a nanny state that thinks it can do a better job of keeping us safe.

A Virginia Tech professor who specializes in statistical modeling and disease surveillance says the United States has to do a better job of testing for the novel coronavirus if the country is to be successful in mitigating the virus’ spread.

You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception.
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