Schools Prepare for COVID-19, What Bid en’s Success Means for Trump, and More

March 12, 2020

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Many schools have plans in place to deal with natural disasters, armed violence, the flu, and other emergencies. But the vast majority have not planned for long school closures. As the spread of the coronavirus closes schools around the world, Allison Anderson discusses how to protect students and teachers, while also continuing quality education.

It is clear following this week’s elections that Joe Biden is showing strengths at this stage of the campaign that Hillary Clinton did not in 2016. E.J. Dionne writes that Biden’s success with rural and small-town counties should especially alarm President Trump, who needed those constituencies to beat Clinton in 2016.

Only a few direct perpetrators of abuses at so-called “black sites” have been brought to justice through the U.S. military court. Now, as the International Criminal Court opens an investigation into war crimes committed by both the Taliban and the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Bill Burke-White argues that justice may yet be served.

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