Our failures of pandemic solidarity cost lives. Ukraine is testing our solidarity in another way.

This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.

Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks.

The lab leak theory is dead. Covid-19’s true origins show why we need better disease surveillance of wild and domesticated animals alike.

The massive government interventions that buffered Covid-19’s ravages are fading away, returning us to an unacceptable status quo.

Unlike in the last economic crisis, the government didn’t hesitate about spending money during the pandemic.