Fifteen columnists share their thoughts.
What have Americans lost in the four years since Donald Trump was elected president? This week, 15 of our columnists answered that question for a special edition of Sunday Review. Roger Cohen laments the loss of one of the country’s founding premises: “Trump has severed America from the idea of America. Liberty’s torch cannot be the symbol of a country committed to building walls.” Michelle Goldberg writes about the effect on culture: “All the attention sucked up by this black hole of a president has been its own sort of loss. Every moment spent thinking about Trump is a moment that could have been spent contemplating, creating or appreciating something else.” And Jamelle Bouie writes about the illusions we’ve been parted from: “Trump has helped conjure ugly forces out into the open, giving aid and comfort to assorted racists and white nationalists. Yet it’s also true that these groups and individuals have always been with us.” But it’s not all bad. Farhad Manjoo, Gail Collins and others also remind us of what has been gained in the face of so much loss. — Shannon Busta |
How America Helped Defeat the Coronavirus |
Our reporting has revealed a remarkable American Covid success story. Unfortunately, that success is happening somewhere else. |
Hillary Clinton Says It’s Different This Time |
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“There is something deeply unsettling to a strata of American voters about a woman getting that close to being president,” Hillary Clinton tells Kara Swisher in this episode of the “Sway” podcast. Which is a shame, because she feels strongly that a woman president, her especially, would have done a much better job handling the coronavirus than Donald Trump has. |
How to Fix the Supreme Court |
 | | Rose Wong |
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Ballots Are Broken. We Redesigned Them. |
Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Greatest Strength Has Become Their Greatest Weakness |
 | | Borough Park, Brooklyn, this month. Coronavirus cases have surged in the neighborhood.John Minchillo/Associated Press |
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