Six governors from a string of contiguous eastern seaboard states stretching from Rhode Island to Delaware announced that they would form a working group to cooperate on reopening businesses in the region. This kind of state-level coordination is much needed. The federal government hasn’t taken the lead in ordering coronavirus lockdowns, and so it won’t take the lead in reopening ...

Covid-19 is not just changing Americans’ daily lives, it may also transform their system of government. On many important current issues, the US may end up with an arrangement that looks more like the Articles of Confederation than the Constitution. Consider how this might evolve. First, states and regions are recovering (or not) at dramatically different rates. The worst may ...

The coronavirus pandemic has closed schools, shuttered restaurants, emptied office buildings, put PM Boris Johnson in intensive care and forced much of the UK economy into cryogenic suspension. So far, though, it hasn’t derailed Brexit. Fronting the daily UK press conference, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak affirmed that the government was committed to its current timetable for trade talks ...