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Covid-19
May 18, 2020
Magazine
Aaron Timms
Making Life Cheap
Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables
May 15, 2020
Libby Watson
Jared Kushner Is a National Disaster
The popular perception of Trump’s son-in-law is that he’s a foppish nepotism hire, but he has a plan to enrich himself at your expense.
May 14, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Coronavirus and the Republican War on Knowledge
Despite Anthony Fauci’s best efforts, conservatives will stake an untold number of American lives on the all-in wager that ignorance is bliss.
May 14, 2020
Magazine
Win McCormack
Mutant Liberalism
A threat to the community
May 14, 2020
Audrey Clare Farley
The Nonprofit Grifters Who Want a Cut of the Coronavirus Bailout
After years of undermining health policy to aid their Big Pharma patrons, patient advocacy groups are making claims to federal pandemic relief.
May 13, 2020
Libby Watson
It Will Be Needlessly Hard to Get a Coronavirus Vaccination in the U.S.
A health care system designed to rake profits for an elite few is ill-suited to carrying out a nationwide herd immunity project.
May 11, 2020
Magazine
Alexander Zaitchik
No Vaccine in Sight
The U.S. was once at the cutting edge of pandemic prevention. Then Big Pharma took over.
May 7, 2020
Adam Weinstein
Did the Military Really Just Ban Coronavirus Survivors?
The Pentagon’s ill-advised new “interim” recruiting policy could cause precisely the harm to service members that it seeks to avoid.
May 7, 2020
Magazine
Liza Featherstone
The Pandemic Is a Family Emergency
How the coronavirus exposes a crisis of care work
May 7, 2020
Andrew Schwartz
The Fraught Realities of Financial Relief During a Pandemic
For many Americans receiving unemployment insurance right now, finally coming out ahead shows how badly they’ve been left behind.
May 5, 2020
Magazine
Christopher Caldwell
Can the European Union Survive a Pandemic?
The coronavirus crisis has turned its member nations against each other.
May 5, 2020
Magazine
Jake Bittle
Why Conservatives Dismiss the Dangers of the Coronavirus
May 4, 2020
Magazine
Rachel Riederer
How Zoom Colonized Our Lives
Our digital dependency has created a privacy crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic has forced a reckoning.
May 3, 2020
Justine van der Leun
Death of a Survivor
In April, Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay became the first woman incarcerated by New York State to die from Covid-19. Should she have been in prison in the first place?
May 1, 2020
David Roth
The Cancer in the Camera Lens
Far from shining a curative light on the Trump administration, the media has become engulfed by his empire of stupidity.
May 1, 2020
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
The Slippery Definition of an “Essential” Worker
Whose work is indispensable in a pandemic?
April 30, 2020
Alex Shephard
Turns Out Andrew Cuomo Isn’t America’s Governor After All
Under pressure for his coronavirus response, the former media darling of the crisis is sounding a bit like Donald Trump.
April 30, 2020
Libby Watson
The Intolerable Fragility of American Hospitals
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the frail and unequal nature of our public health system. It doesn’t have to be this way.
April 30, 2020
Joe Lowndes
The Morbid Ideology Behind the Drive to Reopen America
The right has mobilized a small army of true believers willing to die in the defense of a less just world.
April 29, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The Bipartisan Appeal of “Yellow Peril” Politics
The coronavirus pandemic is exactly the excuse Washington has been looking for to start a conflict with China.
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