 If you've had trouble keeping up with the news this past week, you're not alone. Every day, thousands of Americans across the country have been pouring into the streets to protest police brutality. The president threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, disquieting military leaders past and present. And while the coronavirus may have fallen out of the news, the threat that killed more than 100,000 Americans and has left 21 million currently jobless hasn't gone away. As states lift their lockdowns and protests grow, where will the U.S. go from here? The world is watching. Here's what some of Bloomberg Opinion's writers had to say about these unprecedented times. Spending So Much on Police Has Real Downsides — Noah Smith Non-Violence Is Still a Winning Strategy — Mihir Sharma The Jobs Report Shows Deep Racial Injustice — Mark Whitehouse A Goldman Executive Has Advice for His White Colleagues — Frederick Baba Maybe Racism Caused the Covid-19 Crisis — Cathy O'Neil Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Reach a Tipping Point — Timothy L. O'Brien Can Trump Send In the Military? Probably, Yes — Noah Feldman Are the George Floyd Protests Different? — Stephen L. Carter The Crucial Word in Mattis's Trump Denunciation — Cass R. Sunstein Tom Cotton Declares His Candidacy for 2024 — Francis Wilkinson In George Floyd's City, Inequalities Are Everywhere — Adam Minter Hoover Sent MacArthur to Quell Protests. It Backfired, Badly. — Stephen Mihm How to Join the Protests Without Risking Covid-19 — Tyler Cowen How the World Views the Protests in the U.S. — Pankaj Mishra, Therese Raphael, Shuli Ren and other Bloomberg writers This is the Theme of the Week edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of our top commentary published every Sunday. | 
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