Looks like you’re using a browser we don’t support.To improve your visit to our site, take a minute andThe Fed has pulled out its big guns,  interest rate targets to zero and announcing $700 billion worth of new quantitative easing. Republican Senator Mitt Romney  giving every American $1,000, and Republicans in general are getting behind paid sick leave. Paul Krugman is for the government to spend 1 to 2 percent of gross domestic product per year on a permanent stimulus. And New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio over the weekend the idea of the “nationalization of crucial factories and...…Looks like you’re using a browser we don’t support.To improve your visit to our site, take a minute andThe Fed has pulled out its big guns,  interest rate targets to zero and announcing $700 billion worth of new quantitative easing. Republican Senator Mitt Romney  giving every American $1,000, and Republicans in general are getting behind paid sick leave. Paul Krugman is for the government to spend 1 to 2 percent of gross domestic product per year on a permanent stimulus. And New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio over the weekend the idea of the “nationalization of crucial factories and...WW…

Looks like you’re using a browser we don’t support.To improve your visit to our site, take a minute andOver the weekend, Donald Trump’s critics and his advisers were, possibly for the first time, on the same page: The president’s daily coronavirus briefings, which stretch on longer than Grateful Dead sets, were causing more harm than good. All it took for everyone to reach that conclusion was the president suggesting, in front of millions of viewers, that could cure Covid-19. These briefings were both public health and political disasters, damaging the president’s already thin credibility...…Looks like you’re using a browser we don’t support.To improve your visit to our site, take a minute andOver the weekend, Donald Trump’s critics and his advisers were, possibly for the first time, on the same page: The president’s daily coronavirus briefings, which stretch on longer than Grateful Dead sets, were causing more harm than good. All it took for everyone to reach that conclusion was the president suggesting, in front of millions of viewers, that could cure Covid-19. These briefings were both public health and political disasters, damaging the president’s already thin credibility...WW…

The coronavirus has slowed much American police work, but the rate of police killings has remained relatively unchanged. The pandemic has slowed much American police work, but police are still working. “As of May 17, 375 people had been shot and killed by on-duty police officers in 2020—about the same rate as other recent years despite the coronavirus pandemic,” Wesley Lowery, who helped track killings at The Washington Post, observed on Tuesday. Just a day before, a 46-year-old black man named George Floyd was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer who pinned him to the ground,...…The coronavirus has slowed much American police work, but the rate of police killings has remained relatively unchanged. The pandemic has slowed much American police work, but police are still working. “As of May 17, 375 people had been shot and killed by on-duty police officers in 2020—about the same rate as other recent years despite the coronavirus pandemic,” Wesley Lowery, who helped track killings at The Washington Post, observed on Tuesday. Just a day before, a 46-year-old black man named George Floyd was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer who pinned him to the ground,...WW…

Gasoline is priced at nearly $5 per gallon because after Russia invaded Ukraine the United States banned imports of Russian oil and the European Union imposed a partial import ban. The U.S. and its European allies are now weighing the creation of a buyer’s cartel against Russian oil sold elsewhere. The cartel would cap the price of Russian oil by directing companies that insure shipments of Russian oil, nearly all of which are in the U.S. or the EU, to refuse coverage to shipments of oil priced above the cap. Also under consideration is a scheme to punish countries that purchase oil above...…Gasoline is priced at nearly $5 per gallon because after Russia invaded Ukraine the United States banned imports of Russian oil and the European Union imposed a partial import ban. The U.S. and its European allies are now weighing the creation of a buyer’s cartel against Russian oil sold elsewhere. The cartel would cap the price of Russian oil by directing companies that insure shipments of Russian oil, nearly all of which are in the U.S. or the EU, to refuse coverage to shipments of oil priced above the cap. Also under consideration is a scheme to punish countries that purchase oil above...WW…