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In the days leading up to the 1960 presidential election, the Republican Party resounded with a familiar refrain: a vote for John F. Kennedy, the fresh-faced senator from Massachusetts, would leave labour leader Walter Reuther pulling the strings. Walter Reuther first became headline news in the spring of 1937, when as president of a local branch of the United Auto...

At the beginning of a new week, global cases of coronavirus passed 13 million, with the World Health Organization sending out warning signals as 1 million cases in five days hastened the spread. The precipitous rise was the product of the United States, Brazil, India, and South Africa, four countries where the bulk of infections were taking place. Surging...