Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement It’s not so bad.That was the rationale in Barbados in 1647, when British merchants and wealthy planters, seeking to preserve the island colony’s slave trade, shrugged off the threat of the yellow fever epidemic that claimed thousands of lives.Also not so bad a hundred years later in Boston and other colonial seaports, when authorities played down the prevalence of smallpox so their customers overseas would keep welcoming their ships.Not so bad in New York and other cities in the 1830s, when President Andrew Jackson, one of Donald...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement It’s not so bad.That was the rationale in Barbados in 1647, when British merchants and wealthy planters, seeking to preserve the island colony’s slave trade, shrugged off the threat of the yellow fever epidemic that claimed thousands of lives.Also not so bad a hundred years later in Boston and other colonial seaports, when authorities played down the prevalence of smallpox so their customers overseas would keep welcoming their ships.Not so bad in New York and other cities in the 1830s, when President Andrew Jackson, one of Donald...WW…

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U.S. President Joe Biden has high approval ratings, high hopes, high-spending plans – and his high-risk policies are approaching a set of High Noon political confrontations.Congress is back from its Easter break this week and confronts a passel of Biden proposals costing many trillions of dollars. But though the Democrats control both houses on Capitol Hill, the President’s eye-popping initiatives face opposition from Republicans and dangerous skepticism among some Democrats in the Senate, where Mr. Biden cannot afford to lose a single vote in a 50-50 chamber with Vice-President Kamala...…U.S. President Joe Biden has high approval ratings, high hopes, high-spending plans – and his high-risk policies are approaching a set of High Noon political confrontations.Congress is back from its Easter break this week and confronts a passel of Biden proposals costing many trillions of dollars. But though the Democrats control both houses on Capitol Hill, the President’s eye-popping initiatives face opposition from Republicans and dangerous skepticism among some Democrats in the Senate, where Mr. Biden cannot afford to lose a single vote in a 50-50 chamber with Vice-President Kamala...WW…

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Of all the ironies of the age in the United States, this might be the most bracing: At the very time Americans are celebrating their 18th-century separation from Europe, the continent that their forebears regarded as the centre of colonial tyranny and the home of desiccated monarchies is barring 21st-century American travellers from entering their lands.The rebellious Americans declared their independence from Britain 244 years ago, in part to prevent further infection from the virus of Old World primogeniture and privilege. The government officials of modern Europe this Independence Day...…Of all the ironies of the age in the United States, this might be the most bracing: At the very time Americans are celebrating their 18th-century separation from Europe, the continent that their forebears regarded as the centre of colonial tyranny and the home of desiccated monarchies is barring 21st-century American travellers from entering their lands.The rebellious Americans declared their independence from Britain 244 years ago, in part to prevent further infection from the virus of Old World primogeniture and privilege. The government officials of modern Europe this Independence Day...WW…