Friday's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing was filled with wildly false claims about the administration’s supposed success in dealing with COVID-19. With only about 4% of the world’s population, America accounts for more than 25% of worldwide COVID-19 infections and deaths.
June 16, 2020The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control recommends that all Americans practice social distancing to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. Trump has been systematically undermining that CDC guidance
June 10, 2020Medical professionals agree unanimously that wearing a mask in public prevents the spread of COVID-19. Trump refuses to wear one.
May 18, 2020Confusion Reigns Over Reopening Plan
March 31, 2020By March 4, South Korea — a country of 51.8 million people — has performed more than 136,000 tests. The US, with a population of 329 million, has performed fewer than 1,000.This is Part II in a series.
March 27, 2020Trump’s magical thinking and contradictory messages about the coronavirus have created public confusion. The consequences are becoming catastrophic.
March 3, 2020Bill talks to psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton about Trump, lies and dueling realities. “It’s a kind of purity of a single authoritarian person who claims to have nobility and claims that he alone and no one else can save the country. And by implication, the world. It’s pure megalomania,” Lifton says.
September 28, 2016Since the founding of the United States, government at every level has tended to make unpopular behavior illegal — and that hasn't always made it stop.
