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On Covid-19 and protests, some good news is there

Last week, cars and pedestrians lined up for free Covid-19 tests in south Minneapolis, six blocks from where George Floyd was killed last month. As protests flared after his death, Minnesota’s Department of Health had set up the testing site and encouraged demonstrators to visit in hopes of stemming a potential new outbreak. Long lines at this center and three ...

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Basis for ‘monetary insanity’ in India

A rare meeting of minds between India’s Left and Right on a point of economics should alarm those who belong to neither. The two sides are tossing out similar — and similarly absurd — ideas. Before they make PM  Narendra Modi’s government do something silly and harmful (such as the overnight ban on 86% of currency notes in 2016), both ...

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Orban uses Covid-19 crisis for ‘power grab’

What do you call a country whose government openly embraces illiberalism and exults in the crisis of democracy, cheers the perceived decline of the US and the rise of its authoritarian challengers, makes irredentist claims against its neighbors, and spreads decay within key institutions of the American-led international order? If you answered “NATO ally,” you are, unfortunately, correct. Under PM ...

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