Reader Mail Jun 12, 2020

People have to stand up against racism

In Laurel, Mississippi, where I grew up, there were two worlds: one black and one white, divided by train tracks. During the day, black workers crossed over the tracks to work in the homes and the businesses of the white people. By sunset, they ...

Reader Mail Jun 12, 2020

New international order versus nature

An important question to ask about Yoichi Funabashi’s June 9 opinion piece “Time to build the post-pandemic world order” is: Why doesn’t he understand the most basic fact about COVID-19, the current pandemic? The coronavirus is not, as he put it, “a common enemy” to ...