international analysis and commentary

The American-style Covid-19 recession

Between a surge of Covid-19 cases, Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the country, and Donald Trump’s forays into authoritarianism, with national guard and secret police sent into cities to stop protesters, one thing seems to have slipped…

The New York experience

One of the first things that changed for New Yorkers as the coronavirus pandemic hit was that more people started liking Governor Andrew Cuomo, sort of. It took a crisis, but many people stopped associating Cuomo to the state of the city’s…