Each chart shows how these three metrics compare to the corresponding peak level reached nationwide before Omicron became the dominant variant. For example, a state’s case line exceeds 100 percent on the chart when its number of cases per capita exceeds the highest number of U.S. cases per cap...

Now that the U.S. and the NATO allies have taken from the Russian oligarchs their cash in foreign banks, their mansions, their boats and planes, and blocked the export of all private and corporate Rus...