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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July 2020 news and views
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July 7
Top Headlines
New York Times, Opinion: How America Lost the War on Covid-19, Paul Krugman- Washington Post, Evictions likely to skyrocket, with black renters hit hard
- Washington Post, Live Updates: Fauci warns U.S. is ‘still knee deep in the first wave’
- New York Times, Fact Check: Trump Falsely Claims ‘99 Percent’ of Virus Cases Are ‘Totally Harmless’
- Washington Post, Trump administration sends letter withdrawing U.S. from WHO over virus response
- New York Times, Trump Defends Confederate Flag and Falsely Accuses Bubba Wallace of Hoax
- Washington Post, Supreme Court says presidential electors can be required to back their states’ popular-vote winner
- Washington Post, Congress departs for two-week recess without addressing spikes in cases, economic woes
Trump Watch
- Washington Post, Trump’s worldview forged by neglect and trauma, his niece says in book
Washington Post, Tell-all book by President Trump’s niece to be published two weeks earlier on July 14- Palmer Report, Opinion: Deutsche Bank just came clean on Jeffrey Epstein, and it’s the last thing Donald Trump needs, Bill Palmer
- Daily Beast, Mary Trump Book Claims Trump Praised Her Breasts and His Own Sister Called Him a Clown,
- Business Insider, Trump cheated on his SAT by paying someone to take it for him, according to Mary Trump's new book,
- New York Daily News, Trump comments on 1-year-old daughter’s breasts in disturbing 1994 interview
Virus Victims, Responses
- Washington Post, Special Report on The ‘covid cocktail’: Inside a Pa. nursing home that gave some veterans hydroxychloroquine without covid-19 testing, Debbie Cenziper and Shawn Mulcahy
- Washington Post, Florida teen who died from covid-19 was given hydroxychloroquine by parents, report says
- Washington Post, States mandate masks; shutdowns return as cases soar
- Washington Post, Relief loans benefited well-connected firms that didn’t mention saving jobs,
- Washington Post, McConnell calls for five-year lawsuit shield for businesses as part of next coronavirus bill
- New York Times, As Virus Cases Rise, the Federal Work Force Heads Back to the Office
New York Times, Live Updates: Demand for Coronavirus Testing in U.S. Soars, Creating a New Crisis- New York Times, The U.S. will pay Novavax $1.6 billion to develop 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by early 2021
- New York Times, Reducing Your Risk From the Airborne Coronavirus, How to protect yourself from a virus that may be floating indoors?
- New York Times, Colleges Plan to Reopen Campuses, but Just for Some Students at a Time
U.S. 2020 Elections, Politics
- Washington Post, Opinion: What if Trump loses but insists he won? Max Boot
- New York Times, Opinion: Can We Please Pick the President by Popular Vote Now? Jesse Wegman
- New York Times, Trump Vowed to ‘Drain the Swamp,’ but Lobbyists Are Helping Run His Campaign
- New York Times, Opinion: Maybe This Isn’t Such a Good Time to Prosecute a Culture War, Jamelle Bouie
- Washington Post, Trump’s attacks on voting by mail could backfire, GOP strategists fear
- Washington Post, CDC recommends that voters consider alternatives to casting ballots in person
U.S. Prisons, Courts, Crime
- New York Times, Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims
- Bloomberg via MSN, Roger Stone Asks Trump for Pardon Ahead of July 14 Prison Date, Erik Larson and David Yaffe-Bellany
Brutality, Race Protests & Reactions
World News
- Washington Post, Brazil president, who had been skeptical of virus, tests positive'
- Washington Post, China detains Xu Zhangrun, leading critic of President Xi
Top Stories
New York Times, Opinion: How America Lost the War on Covid-19, Paul Krugman, right, July 7, 2020 (print ed.). It wasn’t because of our culture, it was because of our leadership. When did 
America start losing its war against the coronavirus? How did we find ourselves international pariahs, not even allowed to travel to Europe?I’d suggest that the turning point was way back on April 17, the day that Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA,” followed by “LIBERATE MICHIGAN” and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA.” In so doing, he effectively declared White House support for protesters demanding an end to the lockdowns governors had instituted to bring Covid-19 under control.
As it happens, the Democratic governors Trump was targeting in those tweets stood firm.
But Republican governors in Arizona, Florida, Texas and elsewhere soon lifted stay-at-home orders and ended many restrictions on business operations. They also, following Trump’s lead, refused to require that people wear masks, and Texas and Arizona denied local governments the right to impose such requirements. They waved away warnings from health experts that premature and careless reopening could lead to a new wave of infections.
Washington Post, Evictions likely to skyrocket, with black renters hit hard, Renae Merle, July 7, 2020 (print ed.). In more than half the country, local courts are reopening and beginning to process a backlog of eviction cases, sparking what economists and housing advocates say could be a historic surge in homelessness.A backlog of eviction cases is beginning to move through the court system as millions of Americans who had counted on federal aid and eviction moratoriums to stay in their homes now fear being thrown out.
A crisis among renters is expected to deepen this month as the enhanced unemployment benefits that have kept many afloat run out at the end of the July, and the $1,200 per adult stimulus payment that had supported households earlier in the crisis becomes a distant memory.
Meanwhile, enforcement of federal moratoriums on some types of evictions is uneven, with experts warning that judges’ efforts to limit access to courtrooms or hold hearings online because of covid-19 could increasingly leave elderly or poor renters at a disadvantage.
Of the 110 million Americans living in rental households, 20 percent are at risk of eviction by Sept. 30, according to an analysis by the Covid-19 Eviction Defense Project, a Colorado-based community group. African American and Hispanic renters are expected to be hardest hit.
Washington Post, Live Updates: Fauci warns U.S. is ‘still knee deep in the first wave,’ Staff reports, July 7, 2020. A coronavirus vaccine would face obstacles; Samoa, Pakistan and Japan hold important lessons; Vaccine trial patient: ‘We’re all starved for hope.’Hospitals across the Sun Belt continue to be inundated with coronavirus patients, with Arizona reaching 89 percent capacity for intensive care unit beds on Monday, as Alabama, California, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas also reported unprecedented numbers of hospitalizations. For the 28th day in a row, the country’s rolling seven-day average of daily new
cases shattered all previous records, although the number of deaths has remained relatively stable.The United States is “still knee deep in the first wave” of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Anthony S. Fauci (shown above in a file photo), director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Monday. Unlike Europe, “we never came down to baseline and now are surging back up.”
At least 2,926,000 coronavirus cases and 127,000 deaths have been reported nationwide since February. The Trump administration hopes that Americans will grow inured to the growing death toll and accept the tens of thousands of new cases being reported each day as the new reality, three people familiar with the White House’s thinking told The Washington Post. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
New York Times, Fact Check: Trump Falsely Claims ‘99 Percent’ of Virus Cases Are ‘Totally Harmless,’ Roni Caryn Rabin and Chris Cameron, July 7, 2020 (print ed.). The president dismissed the severity of the
pandemic, downplaying the effect of the disease even as infections surge across the Sunbelt and rebound in California.His remarks about a virus that has already claimed nearly 130,000 lives were perplexing. The coronavirus is surging across the Sunbelt states and has rebounded in California. At least 2.8 million Americans are known to be infected, and public health officials have said the real number of infections may be 10 times higher.
World Health Organization leader Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (2018 photo via D. Procofieff and Flickr)
Washington Post, Trump administration sends letter withdrawing U.S. from WHO over virus response, Emily Rauhala, Karoun Demirjian and Toluse Olorunnipa, July 7, 2020. The notice is the first step toward leaving the World Health Organization. The dramatic move could reshape public health diplomacy.
The Trump administration has begun the process of withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that could hurt the U.N. agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and reshape public health diplomacy.The notice of withdrawal, effective July 6, 2021, was sent Monday to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. Under the terms of a joint resolution passed by Congress in 1948, the United States must give a year’s notice and pay its debts to the agency in order to leave.
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