Category: OPINION
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The excuses are gone The excuses are gone, by now, reopening without redesign isn’t confusion or improvisation. It is policy. What is happening now is no longer confusion or shock or improvisation. It is not the fog of an unprecedented moment. We know what this virus does. We know how it spreads. We know which…
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Restarting has become the goal, even though the systems being restarted have not been repaired. Speed is replacing caution, and risk is being reframed as resolve.
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A global slowdown feels meaningful, but pausing a system is not the same as repairing it. What comes next matters more than the stop itself.
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May 2020 didn’t just reopen businesses, it staged a declaration: we’re done with this. But reopening became symbols and vibes instead of systems, pushing enforcement downhill to the lowest-paid workers and turning public health into identity theatre. A performance asks you to believe. A plan asks you to trust, and trust has to be earned.
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The push to reopen is real, and so is the pain behind it. But reopening is not a switch. It is an allocation of risk, and without repair, it becomes a transfer of burden onto the least protected. Rules that aren’t enforced become theatre, trust becomes the second casualty, and “freedom” turns into a slogan…
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April 2020 turned “essential” into a badge, but too often it functioned as camouflage. Praise and applause can’t substitute for protection, pay, and enforceable safety. The pandemic didn’t invent inequality, it made it impossible to ignore, drawing a brutal line between who gets to stay home and who is expected to
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February 2019 is not defined by one scandal, but by a habit: the national shrug. “So what” has become a governing posture, turning oversight into hostility and misconduct into background noise. Democracies don’t fail only through dramatic ruptures. They fail when standards become tribal weapons and consequences become optional.
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America didn’t enter 2020 with a reset. It entered with momentum, and momentum is what politics looks like when standards have already been weakened. From escalating conflict abroad to a Senate trial that feels prewritten, the real danger is not a single event. It’s the permission structure we build when accountability becomes optional and precedent…
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December 2019 closes with the House voting to impeach President Trump and the Senate poised for a trial whose ending seems prewritten. But the real stakes are larger than one outcome. The question is what we will tolerate, what precedents we will normalize, and whether a republic can survive an attention economy that rewards contempt…
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America in 2019 feels like a nation trained to react faster than it can reason. Impeachment dominates the headlines, but the deeper crisis is cultural: truth has become tribal, institutions are treated like weapons, and the 2020 race is already poisoning the present. The question isn’t who wins—it’s whether we still believe we share a…
