Summer reading: Best book ever about a presidential race

Whet your appetite for this fall’s epic presidential contest by revisiting the 1988 campaign with Richard Ben Cramer’s political classic, What It Takes, urges contributor Bill Moloney.

US economic self-immolation over Covid-19 defies history and logic

Indiscriminately throwing millions of Americans out of work to fight the pandemic wasn’t necessary, argues contributor Bill Moloney, in light of Sweden’s success with targeted closures and this country’s own fortitude during the far deadlier 1918 flu epidemic.