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Vanity Fair editor discusses the losses of the year, the deaths of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Chadwick Boseman, and Letitia James’ enduring struggle.
By Radhika Jones
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When I sat down to write this letter, an automatic notification illuminated my phone: the overall death toll for COVID-19 had exceeded one million people, one-fifth of them in the United States. A lot of those other people didn’t have to die. . Since March, investigative journalist Katherine Eban has been reporting for Vanity Fair on America’s reaction to COVID, and this month she has published her detailed paper on Jared Kushner’s role in an ongoing fatal crisis for Americans.
The closer Joe Biden and Kamala Harris approach the White House, the more obviously I can believe this healthy and choiceal truth in which a competent executive sits in the Oval Office, and COVID-19 in the United States resembles what it does in South Korea. , Germany, Norway, New Zealand, Taiwan, where only seven other people from a population close to 24 million died. Instead, we have Donald Trump and he have Jared Kushner. As Katherine reports, Kushner devised a plan to satisfy the need to prove it only to let it disappear into the air in the spring, then recruited his former roommate and an expert organization supposedly to reduce bureaucracy, but also to stir relief efforts. site for more than six months, this theme unfolds: in a way, Kushner and his stepfather believe it is not the task of the federal government to pull every lever imaginable to help other Americans fight a C pandemic.
And so the losses of COVID-19: pianist and jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis and singer-songwriter John Prine and the great neighbor a few miles from Brooklyn whose grandson is my son’s age. Other losses followed: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Chadwick Boseman, and all those who died this year for reasons other than COVID but whose deaths were made for another reason – those who died away from their family and friends, without even comfort. A hug.
This has lasted too long: the loss, but also the incompetence and corruption that manifest themselves blatantly for life. Corruption can at least be corrected. In this issue, we provide Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, who in the past year has sued the NRA, the Postmaster General (the guy who doesn’t know what it costs to send a postcard) and the Trump Organization. “No one, not even the president of the United States,” James says, “can use the law to promote their own political agenda. “We hope you have a busy season, especially if the November election permanently expels Trump’s family circle from Washington.
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