DANIEL VAUGHAN: China’s global charm offensive

• Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, China has opened up multiple propaganda fronts across the world. The primary offensive you know from the news. Using various...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Congress must pass another coronavirus relief bill

• We’re not killing the economy, Henry Olsen wrote in The Washington Post; we’re putting it into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. That’s...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: The importance of trust in the coronavirus era

• Trust is one of those things that takes a long time to build, but can be lost in a moment. Occasionally, we encounter inflection...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: COVID-19 brings out the exceptional courage of everyday Americans

• There’s a moment in the Peter Jackson adaptation of The Hobbit where Gandalf the Grey, a powerful wizard, is asked why he chose a small...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Stop scaring people with COVID-19 models. Focus on real data.

• Statistical models are great tools that can help us understand large-scale events and how they move. They can also provide worst-case scenarios for governments...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Bernie Sanders: Defender of communist China

• We’re in the middle of a pandemic right now in America thanks to a disease that originated in China back in November 2019. Before...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: We’re flying blind on COVID-19, and government bureaucrats are to blame

• Travel bans buy time, but they’re not solutions by themselves. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address was necessary for placing COVID-19, the new coronavirus,...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Be prepared, not scared, for COVID-19

• I find myself increasingly irritated with everything related to COVID-19. I shared a meme with friends this past weekend, a “Baby Yoda” meme naturally,...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Human community shines even after the darkest storm

• Natural disasters are awful in every way. They upend cities, disrupt people’s livelihoods, and often take life in senseless ways. These disasters, or “acts...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: National media fails, local reports win on COVID-19

• “Navigating the Uncharted” is how a Friday editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine characterized the world’s response to the current outbreak of...