Covid-19
Skip Navigation
The New Republic
The New Republic
LATEST
BREAKING NEWS
POLITICS
CLIMATE
CULTURE
MAGAZINE
NEWSLETTERS
PODCASTS
VIDEO
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
LATEST
BREAKING NEWS
POLITICS
CLIMATE
CULTURE
MAGAZINE
NEWSLETTERS
PODCASTS
VIDEO
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
Covid-19
June 13, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Seriously Think Trump Lost the Election Because of a Lab Leak Cover-Up That They Invented
Lindsey Graham and other conservatives are trying to turn the Covid controversy du jour into the new Russiagate.
June 11, 2021
Melody Schreiber
Herd Immunity Is Not a Magical Percentage
Yes, getting 70 percent of all Americans vaccinated is a worthy goal. But what matters even more is that enough people in enough places are vaccinated.
June 11, 2021
Timothy Noah
We Regret to Inform You That Workers Are Not Suddenly Winning
Wages and job openings are up. Here’s why they won’t stay that way.
June 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Party of Trump Is Trying to Get People Mad at Anthony Fauci Again
The latest attacks from the GOP betray its desperation to find something, anything, to attack Joe Biden with.
June 7, 2021
Ian Beacock
Who Will Read Niall Ferguson’s
Doom
?
With big popular histories, Ferguson once aimed to influence a broad public. His pandemic book may resonate with a narrower audience.
June 7, 2021
Natalie Shure
Many More Americans Would Be Vaccinated if Our Health Care System Wasn’t So Terrifying
People don’t trust an industry known for bureaucratic traps and surprise billing to save them from the pandemic.
June 1, 2021
Alexander Zaitchik
Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property
Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?
May 28, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Amazon Wants to Eat Health Care Next
The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.
May 26, 2021
Matt Ford
Can the Politics of Police Reform Survive the Crime Rates of Our Pandemic Year?
An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.
May 24, 2021
Magazine
Dan Xin Huang
China Is Proud of Its Covid Response. But Taiwan’s Was Better.
How the island nation charted a path between Chinese authoritarianism and Western chaos
May 21, 2021
Timothy Noah
It Shouldn’t Take a Pandemic to Boost Worker Wages
From the Black Death to Covid-19, deadly plagues have a tendency to raise hourly earnings—for the grisliest of reasons.
May 14, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Branding ACT UP
On the aesthetic legacy of HIV/AIDS activism in our own time of viral panic.
May 11, 2021
Eleanor Cummins
Listen Closely to the Cicadas. They’re Telling Us Something.
Periodical cicadas were born out of crisis. Now we’ve created a crisis they may not survive.
May 11, 2021
Chris Lehmann
The Pandemic Planners Were Ready. No One Listened.
The heroes of Michael Lewis’s new book, “The Premonition,” are a band of intrepid policy entrepreneurs.
May 6, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Big Pharma: There’s No Easy Way Out of the Vaccine Crisis We Created
Corporate America might protest, but the potential of a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines is worth celebrating—and fighting for.
May 6, 2021
Astra Taylor
In Defense of Liberal Conspirators
Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.
May 6, 2021
Melody Schreiber
There’s Something Missing From Biden’s Move to Free the Covid Vaccines
Letting people copy Covid vaccines without being sued is good. Helping them do it is better.
May 4, 2021
Amy Littlefield
The Rise of the Corporate-Catholic “Zombie Hospital”
A labor fight at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts reveals how massive health systems use weak religious affiliations as cover for toxic practices, from unions to reproductive health.
April 30, 2021
Katie Gallogly-Swan
Biden, Do the Right Thing and Release the Vaccines From Pharma’s Grip
Throwing U.S. support behind waiving patent protections on Covid-19 vaccines could trigger a surge in global supply.
April 29, 2021
Matt Ford
Tucker Carlson Is Deadly Boring
Fox News’s prime-time star has long been a dull racist. Why is the mainstream media only realizing it now?
Our Writers
Kate Aronoff
Climate & Energy
Perry Bacon
Trumpism & Its Opponents
Malcolm Ferguson
Breaking News
Matt Ford
Law & the Courts
Melissa Gira Grant
LGBTQ Rights
Heather Souvaine Horn
Climate Change
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Breaking News
Jason Linkins
Power & Plutocracy
Timothy Noah
Politics & Economy
Edith Olmsted
Breaking News
Monica Potts
Politics & Class
Hafiz Rashid
Breaking News
Greg Sargent
Politics & Democracy
Grace Segers
Congress & Elections
Alex Shephard
Politics & Media
Michael Tomasky
Politics & Ideas
About
The New Republic
’s history
10
11
12
13
14