A Beloved Bar Owner Was Skeptical About the Virus.  Then He Took a Cruise.  —  Joe Joyce oversaw JJ Bubbles, a welcoming tavern in a conservative corner of Brooklyn, for 43 years until he died of Covid-19.  —  Decades before he would embark on a cruise to the Mediterranean …

Trump campaign concludes there is more to be gained by attacking Biden than trying to promote president's pandemic response  —  President Trump's campaign is preparing to launch a broad effort aimed at linking Joe Biden to China, after concluding that it would be more politically effective …

Trump's unspoken factor on reopening the economy: Politics  —  Many Trump aides and allies say an earlier restart could help the president in his reelection campaign — and they're telling the president that.  —  Said one conservative leader of President Donald Trump: “Trump is basically …

Column: The PPP is letting our small restaurants and businesses die  —  Restaurants are among the hardest-hit businesses during the coronavirus shutdown.  The National Restaurant Assn. estimates that 3 million restaurant employees lost their jobs in March, a month in which restaurants lost about $45 billion in revenue.

Trump Has Begun His Corona Campaign.  We Don't Have to Play Along.  —  The coronavirus story isn't about the president.  —  Did you hear?  The president said some things today.  Mean things!  About someone I know ... I can't quite remember the details, or whether it was today or yesterday, or what day of the week it is, anyway.

The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead  —  There will be no quick return to our previous lives, according to nearly two dozen experts.  But there is hope for managing the scourge now and in the long term.  —  The coronavirus is spreading from America's biggest cities to its suburbs …

Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump, says his web traffic is at record levels  —  New York (CNN)In a rare statement, Matt Drudge, the prominent conservative news mogul, refuted President Trump's Saturday claim that traffic to his website has plummeted as its coverage has grown more critical of him.

IT'S TIME TO BUILD  —  Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings.  This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it's not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it.

An Overlooked, Possibly Fatal Coronavirus Crisis: A Dire Need for Kidney Dialysis  —  Ventilators aren't the only machines in intensive care units that are in short supply.  Doctors have been confronting an unexpected rise in patients with failing kidneys.  —  For weeks, U.S. government officials …

Will the Pandemic Keep Third Parties Off the 2020 Ballot?  —  The pandemic may have robbed Donald Trump of a growing economy.  It may have trapped Joe Biden in his basement.  But it may yet do something even worse to the Libertarian and Green party nominees: keep them off the ballot in many of this year's key states.

Trump and Fox went all-in on a coronavirus silver bullet.  But maybe the wrong one.  —  There is not, as of writing, any medication which has been shown in controlled trials to significantly hasten recovery from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that's become a global pandemic.

Create Coronavirus Commission now to review pandemic response: Schiff, Thompson & Murphy  —  This is not an exercise in score-settling or finger-pointing.  Only an objective, bipartisan examination of this pandemic will prepare us for the next.  —  The fight against coronavirus is unlike any our nation has waged in modern history.

How do you know voting by mail works?  The U.S. military's done it since the Civil War.  —  Advocates and lawmakers believe it could be a model for November because of coronavirus.  —  WASHINGTON — The nation in crisis.  A divisive president up for reelection.

Record government and corporate debt risks ‘tipping point’ after pandemic passes  —  The United States is embarking on a rapid-fire experiment in borrowing without precedent, as the government and corporations take on trillions of dollars of debt to offset the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. sent millions of face masks to China early this year, ignoring pandemic warning signs  —  U.S. manufacturers shipped millions of dollars of face masks and other protective medical equipment to China in January and February with encouragement from the federal government …

‘One World’ Concert Review: Rolling Stones & Beyoncé Hit High Notes At Multi-Network Show For COVID-19 Frontline Workers  —  With greetings in a multitude of languages, a suited and booted Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon kicked off the multi-network One World …

Battleground power plays rage as everyday politics go quiet  —  Local party activity?  Some Facebook traffic, if that.  —  Across an arc of vital swing states, the coronavirus has put politics on an uneasy pause.  —  Instead, political fights among state leaders from Iowa to Pennsylvania …

Michigan juvenile lifer who died of coronavirus in prison was weeks away from parole  —  William Garrison was due to come home from prison in early May. After nearly 44 years incarcerated, he would be free from a life sentence handed to him as a juvenile.  —  His sister Yolanda Peterson …

Charlie Kirk calls on Students for Trump members to launch ‘peaceful rebellion against governors’ over stay-at-home orders  —  Students for Trump is calling on its young members to join the protest efforts.  —  As protests against stay-at-home orders due to novel coronavirus break out around the country …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warns Trump may put US in ‘further danger’ during coronavirus crisis  —  Pelosi wouldn't say when she thinks the U.S. can return to normalcy.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned against President Donald Trump's actions and rhetoric during the coronavirus public health crisis …

Trump's approval rally has disappeared  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Gallup poll finds Present Donald Trump's approval stands at 43%.  His disapproval rating is at 54%.  —  Trump's approval rating is down significantly from 49% in March, while his disapproval rating is up 9 points from 45%.

Judge halts Kansas governor's order limiting church gatherings to 10 people: report  —  A federal court in Kansas issued a temporary restraining order Saturday against an executive order capping church gatherings at 10 people due to COVID-19, according to a local report.

Trump Is Asking Us to Play Russian Roulette With Our Lives  —  Are we really going to bet that we can go back to life as normal without proper coronavirus tracking in place?  —  “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!”  “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”  “LIBERATE VIRGINIA.”  —  With these three short tweets last week …

Judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests  —  Twitter's request “would be likely to lead to grave or imminent harm to the national security,” U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled.  —  Twitter Inc. will not be able to reveal surveillance requests …