Thankfully, history has some insights for us here, and they turn out to have less to do with the Constitution than you might think. The first clue comes via the text of the C.D.C. order itself. Instead of simply halting evictions and then laying out procedures and punishments under the new rules, the C.D.C. began […]
Erik German
Erik German is a Senior Producer at Retro Report. Previously, he worked as a roving national correspondent and producer for The Daily, News Corp’s iPad news publication. Before that, he was an award-winning foreign correspondent for GlobalPost based in North Africa and Brazil. He began his career at Newsday, covering politics, local corruption and crime.
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The Presidential Debates Will Be Weirdly Educational This Year
High-stakes debates put candidates in the hot seat. But are they helpful to voters? When it aired on Sept. 26, 1960, the Kennedy-Nixon debate was the most watched event in the history of television. It gave birth to one of the most enduring folktales about the U.S. presidency: that John Kennedy won the debate because […]
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What Happens Next
What Happens Next, produced in collaboration by Retro Report and Quartz, is a series of deeply reported short documentaries that examine radical transformations coming to central aspects of life in the near future, through the experience of people already living them out. Future of Aging Across the globe, more and more people are living longer […]