Disease, hardship and outrage add up to a 'tinderbox'

A global pandemic has now killed more than 100,000 Americans and left 40 million unemployed in its wake. Protests - some of them violent - have once again erupted in spots across the country over police killings of black Americans.
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is waging a war against Twitter, attacking his political rivals, criticizing a voting practice he himself uses and suggesting that looters could be shot.
America's persistent political dysfunction and racial inequality were laid bare