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If you were a particularly optimistic White House official, you might have latched onto a glimmer of good news that came amid a raft of terrible polling news that has engulfed the Biden administration in recent weeks. Sure, Biden is hemorrhaging support amid his own party, thanks to persistent inflationary conditions and his administration’s anemic response to a series of crises. Yes, 64 percent of respondents in the latest New York Times/Siena College poll said that they would prefer someone... Читать дальше...

For more than two years, numbers have helped make sense of Covid-19: its toll, its risks, the need to ramp up precautions before surges or the ability to lessen them in lull times. But when it comes to statistics on mortality, it can be tricky to figure out what the numbers are actually telling us.

In May, shortly after a white supremacist gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, the conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan published a piece on his Substack outlining the “sinister symmetry” between the motivations of the attacker and “woke” left orthodoxies on race. According to Sullivan, “critical race theory” is like white supremacy: Both see people first and foremost as members of a racial group and reject “the possibility of color-blind citizenship.” In other words... Читать дальше...