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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.
April 29, 2020
Sarah Wang
Confessions of a PPE Smuggler
A journey into the desperate world of ordinary citizens trying to get personal protective equipment to health care workers—against hospitals’ wishes
April 24, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Media Is Blowing the Coverage of the Coronavirus Protests
Maybe there really is nothing to see here.
April 24, 2020
Joseph Osmundson
My Life in Sero-Surveillance
Those of us affected by the AIDS epidemic know the importance—and dangers—of antibody testing.
April 23, 2020
Zoë Hu
A New Age of Destructive Austerity After the Coronavirus
The economic vultures of yesteryear are already scheming about how to head off the prospect of a better world when the pandemic ends.
April 21, 2020
Andrew Blum
Why the U.S. Buys Too Many Missiles and Not Enough Masks
America’s gendered approach to “national security” means preparing for wars, not pandemics.
April 18, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Death Cult Takes to the Streets
The president has transformed yesterday’s Tea Party revolutionaries into worshippers of authoritarian power in Washington.
April 13, 2020
Ben Adler
Bailouts Won’t Save the Economy. More Coronavirus Tests Will.
Congress needs to get serious about ramping up widespread testing if it wants to prevent a brutal downturn.
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