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DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Organizers are requiring masks, and local authorities say they’ll enforce mandates. What’s a misguided COVID skeptic to do?
Michael Daly is a special correspondent with The Daily Beast. He was previously a columnist with the New York Daily News and a staff writer with New York magazine. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2002 and has received numerous awards. He is the author of Under Ground and The Book of Mychal. His third book, Topsy, was released in 2013.
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‘DESECRATION’
Thomas Webster worked security for 20 days at ground zero two months after 9/11 and then sued for his “pain and suffering.”
opinion
Hometown Hero
Amid rampant price-gouging and a certain U.S. senator being a jerk, A.J. McQueen stood up.
COMING STORM
“My children were ready. I don’t know why the state wasn’t.”
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PRIORITIES
If the battle cry of the Alamo was “Come and take it!” then Abbott goes by “Come and fake it!”
WORST-CASE SCENARIO
As families gather together to seek heat amid Texas’ blackouts and Arctic temperatures, those quarantined with COVID face a waking nightmare.
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WHEN WILL THEY LEARN?
Six Republican lawmakers tested positive in four days. But only a Democrat seems willing to do something about it.
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THE WANDERER
His lawyer is arguing that the title means he can legally reside at the club over neighbors’ objections.
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WILLFUL IGNORANCE
It’s utter insanity, or something even more sinister.
REMEMBER ALAMO
He unleashed violence on the U.S. Capitol. Now he may unleash COVID on a Texas town already struggling with the pandemic.
