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Monday, April 06, 2020

Coronavirus and Executive Underreach

National leaders around the world have taken extreme measures to curb COVID-19, leading to fears of human rights abuses and presidential power grabs.  We in the United States face something closer to the inverse dilemma: a president whose response to the pandemic has been disastrously insufficient.  Jonathan Gould and I offer some thoughts on this problem, and how Congress can address it, in Slate.