Articles by Ethan Epstein
Donald Trump's presidency has brought its fair share of partisan and ideological inversions: The Democrats are now the party of Russia-hawkishness, free trade, and, rhetorically at least, fiscal probity. Republicans, meanwhile, now back conditions-free confabs with Stalinist dictators like Kim Jong-un and pass federal budgets whose deficits top $1 trillion -- and this was before the coronavirus crisis brought the economy to its knees.
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April 5, 2020
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Wayne Gretzky would not be impressed with America's feckless response to the coronavirus.
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March 29, 2020
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On Saturday, Italy announced that 793 people had died that day from COVID-19, the coronavirus that originated in China that has rapidly spread across the world. That was up from 627 deaths that had occurred on Friday and 427 on Thursday. The death toll is now well over 5,000 in that country alone.
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March 22, 2020
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When the coronavirus was in its nascent stages, at least in the U.S., some people who should know better came out to assure Americans that the fear is worse than the disease. Erstwhile presidential candidate Andrew Yang, law professor and Obama administration official Cass Sunstein, and titan of industry Elon Musk all uttered versions of the ultimately content-free phrase.
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March 19, 2020
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Beijing's just-announced decision to immediately expel American reporters from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post is utterly unjustified and a major outrage.
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March 17, 2020
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"Lisbon is no more, but they dance in Paris," Voltaire wrote after an earthquake in 1755 killed tens of thousands in the Portuguese city.
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March 15, 2020
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COVID-19 is firmly established in the United States, and Wednesday night's announcement of extremely limited travel restrictions between Europe and the United States - it doesn't apply to Americans whatsoever, nor to the United Kingdom and Ireland - was akin to announcing a bold new plan to bolt the barn doors now that the horses are out.
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March 12, 2020
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In the event, it was the man who wasn't there who won a smashing victory on Super Tuesday. In the 15 contests, former Vice President Joe Biden took not only states where he was at least somewhat favored ahead of time -- Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina -- but also long shots like Massachusetts, Texas and Minnesota.
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March 4, 2020
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Americans have done so much screaming at each other to avoid panic over the novel coronavirus that they've arguably grown complacent. Last week's ferocious Wall Street sell-off aside, there are few signs of the panic we keep being exhorted against. At this point, shrieks of "don't panic" are a bit like a morbidly obese man being told you to "eat something, you look skinny!"
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March 1, 2020
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Baseball games played to empty stands -- and not just at Marlins Park. Airlines largely grounded. Restaurants empty -- though Grubhub deliveries are booming as hungry people fear leaving their homes. This is the summer that quite possibly awaits the United States should the coronavirus continue its seemingly inexorable march across the globe.
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February 24, 2020
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Democratic primary voters are obsessed with electability, determined to choose the candidate most likely to defeat President Trump in November. And so to prove it, they've gone about systematically eliminating all the most conventionally electable candidates.
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February 16, 2020
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It seems ludicrous to suggest that Bernard Sanders "can't win" the presidential election.
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February 9, 2020
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When President Trump was elected in 2016, the foreign ministers of every European Union country held an emergency meeting to plot their course of action. Only two declined to show up. One was Britain's Boris Johnson, now prime minister of the newly Brexited United Kingdom. The other was Hungary's Peter Szijjarto.
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February 6, 2020
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The Chinese government's response to the coronavirus demonstrates the vast powers accorded to it under its authoritarian structure.
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February 2, 2020
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The Chinese government's response to the coronavirus demonstrates the vast powers accorded to it under its authoritarian structure. Tens of millions of Chinese citizens -- an astonishing number of people -- in and around the central city of Wuhan are under physical quarantine, barred from leaving.
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January 31, 2020
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The campaign has been going on for months and on a cold night in early February, the winner will finally be selected. There is great discontent with the leading contenders -- some deemed too left-wing, some too right-wing, and worst of all in an increasingly ethnically diverse country, all of them far too white. But finally, this overdetermined event that has been pored over, reported on, argued about and even wagered on, is finally almost here.
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January 26, 2020
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Today's edition of this never-ending saga involves Hillary Clinton attacking Sen. Bernie Sanders, her old primary rival and one of the leading candidates to take on Donald Trump later this year. The shots appeared in the pages of the Hollywood Reporter.
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January 21, 2020
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As the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary quickly approach, President Trump faces no serious internal challengers for the GOP nomination.
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January 12, 2020
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in's outreach to North Korea is endangering national security and putting at risk decades of progress toward economic prosperity and greater democracy, a leading member of the opposition Liberty Korea Party said.
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January 7, 2020
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South Korea's very normalcy is a triumph. The country is rich, democratic and stable -- and became that way in record time. Yet under the leadership of President Moon Jae-in, the most left-wing leader in the history of South Korea, those achievements are in peril, says Rep. Lee Ju-young, the deputy speaker of the South Korean National Assembly and a member of the opposition Liberty Korea Party.
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January 7, 2020
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!["Indeed, under [Chinese Communist Party General Secretary] Xi Jinping, the country is moving exactly in the opposite direction — more repression, more unfair competition, more predatory economic practices; indeed, a more aggressive military posture as well," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. (Associated Press photograph)](https://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2020/02/09/AP18165500426341_c0-0-5000-2914_s326x190.jpg?acb044316c2f713d964dec2b0fb85daea4b2f03d)
