The Discourse Report: August 15, 2021

Inside the White House as the administration's Afghanistan plan unraveled, what is the Covid endgame?, key takeaways from the census data, and more

Welcome to DiscRep, your guide to the public discourse. I’m Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere), editor in chief of Arc Digital.

Reads

1. The Distressing, Dysfunctional Politics of a World with Endless Covid by Damon Linker in The Week on 8/13/21

If you'd told me in late March 2020 that a joint effort between pharmaceutical conglomerates and governments would s…