United States | A $2trn bazooka
Congress puts aside its habitual dysfunction and responds to covid-19
The fiscal stimulus is impressive, but America may need another one before too long
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United States March 28th 2020
- Congress puts aside its habitual dysfunction and responds to covid-19
- Young Americans have been surprisingly vulnerable to the virus
- The return of slow courtship to American dating
- The virus should speed efforts to shrink America’s prison population
- American teens are sexting more and sexing less
- Howie Hawkins will probably be the Green Party’s 2020 nominee
- Relations between China and America are infected with coronavirus
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