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- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistThe United States has none of the systems or infrastructure that would allow it to accomplish what China has done to fight mass infection.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorThe US is the most profit-oriented, business-controlled society on Earth, and therefore the least able to cope with a national health emergency, which requires sacrifice of profit for the greater g
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorRwanda’s most important woman is a former political prisoner who isn’t allowed to leave the country. “She’s not a leader of women. She’s a leader of people.”
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceTuesday February 25 was proclaimed “Raymond Nat Turner Day” in Berkeley. Never in my wildest imagination had I dreamed of having a day in my honor.