American politics is in a fragile state. Projects such as Bright Line Watch have been charting how American politics is changing over the past several years, but it doesn’t take much expertise to see how COVID-19 comes at what might be the worst possible time for a sharply divided country. As part of an ongoing […]

If you had to predict what kinds of advanced industrial economies would be most likely to contain the spread of COVID-19, would your answer be? For me, the key factors would be a strong state with an effective bureaucracy and the ability to compel citizens to comply with public health directives. Such states tend to […]