Donald Trump’s stunning flip-flops (opinion)

Editor’s Note: Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. The “city that never sleeps” is where Samantha K. Smith’s father, a New York City police officer, labored at Ground Zero to help recover human remains in the months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “We must support our heroes by having systems in place, securing them affordable and ready access to mental health counseling, drug and alcohol treatment, and the proper time they will need to heal.” In one 24-hour span in late March, 13 patients died of Covid-19 at New York’s Elmhurst Hospital. “Developing and implementing a timely and effective pandemic preparedness system for all countries could cost an estimated $3.4 billion annually, while the expected annual benefit is an estimated $37 billion, according to the World Bank.” “Fulfilling our duty to prevent Covid-19 as economically as possible – had we done it – might just have been one of the most straightforward decisions of the 21st century.” Coping at home Susanne Sener Susanne Sener Six years ago, South African explorer Riaan Manser and his girlfriend, now wife, Vasti, spent 173 days in a 22-and-a-half foot boat, rowing from Agadir, Morocco to New York, most of the time in isolation from other people. British Broadcasting Corporation Don’t tell Holly Thomas that she should be watching “Tiger King,” “The Two Popes,” “Uncut Gems,” “Phantom Thread,” or “A Quiet Place.” She’s opting for traditional fare: period dramas like “Pride and Prejudice” and “Jeeves and Wooster.” “I am watching anything set a long enough time ago that the Internet does not exist, no one watches television, news is non-existent, and all human interactions are done in person, but without anyone expressing their actual feelings – unless in a quivering, awkward outburst,” Thomas wrote.