“No one would claim that the freedom to travel is the most important right to preserve at the height of a pandemic. But if we convince ourselves that excluding the ‘unsafe’ is easier than defeating the virus, we won’t just be reducing frivolous trips in the short term. We will be fundamentally altering our world for the worse,” argues Thomas Wright in his latest op-ed.
Well-functioning housing markets are critical to Virginia’s economic success, but communities across the commonwealth are struggling. Jenny Schuetz writes that strategic housing policy by Virginia’s next governor can strengthen the state’s economy, reduce financial stress on households, and improve climate resilience.
With the fate of their own country and ramifications for Europe on their shoulders, Germans are heading to the polls next month for their federal elections. Constanze Stelzenmüller describes some of Germany’s greatest chancellors and concludes that, in comparison, all three candidates vying to replace Chancellor Angela Merkel seem “eminently resistible.”
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