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SOCIAL SECURITY POLITICS-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and senior advisor Jared Kushner listen as President Donald Trump meets with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Oval Office of the White House on April 28, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

GUEST WORDS--The Senate just unanimously passed a $483 billion coronavirus aid package in addition to the $2.2 trillion previously authorized by The CARES Act to soften the economic impact of Covid-19 on Americans.

PERSPECTIVE--After the demise of the Soviet Union and the US intervention that crushed Saddam Hussein’s attack on Kuwait in 1991, President George H. W. Bush pronounced a new world order.

PERSPECTIVE-Along with millions of other Southern Californians, my family and I have been learning to live with the probability in our lifetimes of a mega-quake,

PERSPECTIVE--“Avridamah!!” shouted Matteo, from across the park.

GUEST COMMENTARY--In the midst of  a pandemic that's killed more than 65,000 Americans and infected more than a million,