My sister, who is in her 50s, recently mused to my 13-year-old son, "Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat."

The U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic stands at 200,000 and people and counting. While the majority of the almost 7 million Americans infected by the coronavirus have made full recoveries, a substantial minority has not. Some experience persistent fatigue. Others report lingering symptoms that include shortness of breath, difficulty concentrating, headache, and painful joints. A small number of children have experienced a complex inflammatory illness of multiple organs following infection.

Preparation has begun at the south end of the Walnut Street Bridge for the construction of a memorial to Ed Johnson, now acknowledged as a man lynched in 1906 for a crime he did not commit.

At the heart of every story about coronavirus loss and tragedy is the question of what happens next.

We have to wonder when the conservative right will stop believing a president who cannot keep his stories straight for even a week at a time.

While President Trump returned to holding indoor rallies in Nevada on Sunday and Phoenix on Monday despite continuing COVID-19 concerns there, the Tennessee Department of Health reported 2,450 new COVID-19 cases Monday, bringing the state's case total to 174,274 cases.

The record low unemployment levels first reached a year ago for Blacks and Hispanics were achievements President Donald Trump could take credit for, and he wasted no time in doing so.

Somebody got to Maurkice Pouncey.

If there was any doubt whether the novel coronavirus has become political, it was answered Wednesday by the two competing candidates for the office of president of the United States.

We gave a damn too late.

At last! Like a poli-sci superhero rushing in to save America's imperiled democracy from an Election Day doomsday, the quiet-spoken former U.S. intelligence chief and conservative Indiana senator Dan Coats just gifted us with the presidential leadership we so desperately needed.

Things we would currently be better off without:

In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93% of CNN's coverage of the Trump administration was negative.

For years, the Trump administration's peacemaking efforts in the Middle East have been the object of relentless derision in elite foreign-policy circles, some of it justified.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports the American government will soon reach a debt level equaling its entire gross domestic product.