| Julie Cohen groaned when she pulled onto Interstate 70 northwest of St. Louis the other day. Traffic was heavy on a highway she tries to avoid for just such reasons, and now she was going to have to crawl along, with her 4-year-old son in a car seat, on an errand to a place she doesn't even like to visit: St. Charles County, a Trump-supporting suburb of a strongly pro-Biden city. Worse, and even more maddening, was an apparent protest along the highway: Cars had pulled over, their drivers standing next to them. "Some St. Charles parents have been staging protests against mask policies in the public schools," Cohen writes, "outraged that their children should possibly have to protect themselves and their teachers during a pandemic." So this was another one. Several drivers were holding American flags, and that made her even angrier. "As an Air Force spouse and Army kid, I loved the flag and all that it represented," she writes, but in recent years the flag had been commandeered for twisted expressions of patriotism — or for "selfish, inane" declarations of independence from masks and vaccines. But then Cohen saw a sign that one of the people standing along I-70 was holding, and she suddenly realized that she had been mistaken. This wasn't an anti-mask protest. Then the tears came.  (David Carson/AP) I was on Interstate 70, growing furious in heavy traffic. Until I got what was happening. By Julie Cohen ● Read more » | | | | The people whom Democrats consider "rich" these days are a teeny — and vanishing — group. By Catherine Rampell ● Read more » | | | "We are the departed, our home blanketed in night, and in my father's garden flowers are opening, untended and unseen." Read this column, or listen to the author read it. By Shabana Basij-Rasikh ● Read more » | | | | This new law is reducing poverty fast. But it only works when its refundable. By Robert Rubin ● Read more » | | | | From the states to the Capitol, the assault continues. By Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent ● Read more » | | | | Financing pandemic prevention is fundamentally not about aid to other nations but collective investments in global public goods that benefit all nations, rich and poor. By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Lawrence Summers ● Read more » | | | | America's allies are worried that "America First" is still the order of the day. By Fareed Zakaria ● Read more » | | | Left to sort through this question for ourselves, we'll get it wrong. We need answers and guidance so we can figure out a new normal. By Eugene Robinson ● Read more » | | | | We made a promise. Then we left. By Hugh Hewitt ● Read more » | | | | The real story of Mark Milley's phone calls to Beijing is less dramatic than you think. By Josh Rogin ● Read more » | | | | He has some explaining to do — and not just about his phone calls with a Chinese general. By Marc Thiessen ● Read more » | | | | Not if a few centrists have anything to say about it. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | |
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