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April 15, 2020
Jasper Craven
Trump’s War on VA Workers Is Exposing Them to the Coronavirus
Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs are fighting a pandemic—and an antagonistic White House.
April 15, 2020
Matt Ford
Congress Has Abandoned the Country
Legislators have fled Washington and won’t meet again until May—a colossal, bipartisan failure of leadership in a time of crisis.
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.
April 10, 2020
Samer Kalaf
Alone in the City of Sirens
As New Yorkers self-isolate indoors amid the coronavirus lockdown, the normal music of the streets has given way to the ambulance’s horrid solo.
April 9, 2020
Daniel K. Gardner
The Planet Can’t Afford a Coronavirus Feud
The United States and China, despite current tensions, have to work together on fighting global warming. It’s the only way.
April 3, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
A Death Toll That Cannot Be Forgotten
Trump has blood on his hands, and America must not wash it away.
April 3, 2020
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J.C. Pan
The Pandemic’s Shameless Profiteers
While hucksters and quacks try cash in on the crisis, the coronavirus is fast becoming a windfall for those already on top.
April 2, 2020
Melody Schreiber
The Next Pandemic Could Be Hiding in the Arctic Permafrost
Global warming could unearth ancient microbes. Will we be as unprepared as we were for the coronavirus?
March 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Darling, Let’s Do Coronavirus in the Hamptons This Year
The rich continue their tradition of escapist virtue signaling.
March 25, 2020
Mary Annaïse Heglar
What Climate Grief Taught Me About the Coronavirus
How to find humanity amid an ever-present dread
March 25, 2020
Matt Ford
Trumpworld Embraces the Death Wish Economy
Dying for the Dow Jones Industrial Average is now an essential part of MAGA dogma.
March 23, 2020
Libby Watson
Coronavirus in a Time of Conspicuous Consumption
For the affluent, painful restrictions could be an opportunity to reorient toward more climate-friendly ways of living.
March 19, 2020
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Felipe De La Hoz
My Life in ICE Detention During the Coronavirus Outbreak
“If I’m going to get the coronavirus, I’m going to get it from an officer before I get it from an inmate.”
March 18, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
Facing Deportation in a Pandemic
With many immigration courts still open, immigrants and their attorneys must choose between two very different kinds of danger.
March 18, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Why You Should Watch Movies About Pandemics, During Pandemics
Sometimes fiction is stranger—and more revealing—than truth.
March 16, 2020
Melody Schreiber
The Risky Race for a Quick Coronavirus Vaccine
After bungling containment, the Trump administration hopes for a fast-tracked fix. But compressing trials comes with its own hazards.
March 13, 2020
Ryu Spaeth
The President Who Wasn’t There
The message from Donald Trump’s coronavirus press conference was that the buck stops elsewhere.
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