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"The Deacon’s Masterpiece or, the Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay'"

By taking a wrecking ball to independent oversight, Trump has made the presidency into a dictatorship. At this point, writes Robert Edwards, the only recourse we will have left to save our democracy, repair the institutions of government, and restore accountability to the American people, is to vote in November to save "the soul of this nation."

By Apr. 10, on a per capita basis, US testing still lags far behind other countries, including South Korea and Italy. But at a press briefing, Trump says, “We’re leading the world now in testing, by far, and we’re going to keep it that way.”

Obama’s team briefed Trump’s transition team on a simulation that anticipated the very type of outbreak now blanketing the earth, but Trump ignored its lessons. Trump inherited a White House pandemic response team, but he disbanded it.

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"From Room to Room" and "Finding a Long Gray Hair"

Patricia McKnight, an intern at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wasn't on assignment when she went to her polling place on Tuesday morning. She was just trying to vote — in the middle of a pandemic.

"For Calling the Spirit Back From Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet"

Whitman would be proud of the people of Mill Valley, California, and their new nightly ritual of communal howling at each other out of their windows.

Voting rights. The Republican Party “would rather try to keep people from voting than lose,” David Daley tells Bill. Daley is a reporter who has written extensively about gerrymandering and voting rights — and fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections.