Articles 2024
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Coronavirus Should Finally Smash the Barriers to Telemedicine
Bloomberg Opinion, April 10, 2020
American physicians, insurers and regulators are pushing the rapid expansion of technologies once confined to optimistic press releases.
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Pandemics Come and Go But Medical Masks Are Eternal
Bloomberg Opinion, April 10, 2020
An illustrated timeline shows how they have brought us together, not kept us apart, over the last 400 years.
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The CDC Should Stop Prioritizing VIPs for Virus Tests
Bloomberg Opinion, March 23, 2020
Even without pull, the rationing criteria used for coronavirus tests around the U.S. make it likely that people in some social and professional circles can get the tests while most can’t.
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Health Workers Deserve Higher Pay. The Economics Are Grim.
Bloomberg Opinion, March 18, 2020
Caregiving is vital, but so labor-intensive that at higher wages, hardly anyone could afford it.
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The World Is a Giant Cruise Ship Called the Covid-19
Bloomberg Opinion, March 03, 2020
Fear of disease can change everyday habits. Sometimes that’s a good thing.
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The Faux Populism of Trumpified Architecture
Bloomberg Opinion, February 11, 2020
An order for designing federal buildings replaces one set of insiders with an even snootier one.
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'The Great British Bake Off' Can Win Any Culture War
Bloomberg Opinion, December 21, 2019
A hit show proves that native and global cultures co-exist beautifully.
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Hollywood Shows How Antitrust Laws Can Flop
Bloomberg Opinion, December 05, 2019
The rules that have governed most of the movie industry for 70 years offer a lesson in the costs of trust-busting.
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You Can’t Fight California Fires With Political Hot Air
Bloomberg Opinion, November 13, 2019
Practical measures can limit the damage. Stoking division inflames it.
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The iPhone of 1939 Helped Liberate Europe. And Women.
Bloomberg Opinion, October 25, 2019
A troubled chemist invented nylon, the fiber that shaped the world. Then we took it for granted.