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| Friday Apr 24, 2020 The first modern pandemic gatesnotes.com This is the full-length version of this post. You can read the condensed version, which appeared as an opinion article in the Washington Post , here . The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus. The damage to health, wealth, and well-being has already been enormous. This is | | | Thursday Apr 23, 2020 Why we can't build vox.com The Capitol building in Washington, DC, on April 19. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images In a viral essay , venture capitalist Marc Andreessen makes a simple exhortation: It's time to build. Behind the coronavirus crisis, he writes, lies "our widespread inability to build." America has been unable to create enough coronavirus | | | Wednesday Apr 22, 2020 The Death of the Department Store: 'Very Few Are Likely to Survive' nytimes.com Shuttered flagships. Empty malls. Canceled orders. Risks of bankruptcy. The coronavirus has hit the behemoths of the retail world. Credit... Andrew Sondern/The New York Times American department stores , once all-powerful shopping meccas that anchored malls and Main Streets across the country, have been dealt blow after blow in the | | | Tuesday Apr 21, 2020 The iPad Magic Keyboard daringfireball.net Greatly anticipating its arrival, I unboxed the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard as soon as it appeared at my door, and before I even attached my iPad Pro, I was put off. It felt too stiff to open. Then I did attach my iPad Pro (immediate thought: "Man, these magnets are | | | Monday Apr 20, 2020 We Are Living in a Failed State theatlantic.com Oliver Munday W hen the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years. We had learned to live, uncomfortably, with the symptoms. | | | Sunday Apr 19, 2020 IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz a16z.com 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. Many of us would like to pin | | | |
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