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May 28, 2020
J.C. Pan
Unionizing the Office in an Age of Remote Work
The places where many people work may be changing, but the urgency of fighting for better conditions isn’t going anywhere.
May 28, 2020
Jacob Silverman
The End of the Backlash to Big Tech
Only a few months ago, Silicon Valley was the subject of intense criticism in Washington and beyond. Then the pandemic struck.
May 28, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Pandemic Is the Right Time to Defund the Police
The coronavirus has slowed much American police work, but the rate of police killings has remained relatively unchanged.
May 28, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Implausibility of an “Explosive” Economic Rebound by November
Democrats fear that a dramatic recovery could help Trump win reelection. The number of job losses and coronavirus deaths suggests otherwise.
May 27, 2020
Alex Shephard
Twitter Can’t Rein In Donald Trump
Fact-checking the president—or even deleting his tweets—is a futile exercise.
May 27, 2020
Matt Ford
The Biggest Threat to a Coronavirus Vaccine Is the American People
The derangements of our current era could threaten the rock-solid legal precedents that provide states with the right to act in the interests of public health.
May 27, 2020
Ankit Panda
The U.S. Can’t “Win” an Arms Race With Russia and China
Trump’s childish nuclear gambling and obsessive jingoism have combined in a strategy that could end arms control as we know it.
May 27, 2020
Wim Wiewel
The Case for Liberal Arts Education in a Time of Crisis
Small, private colleges teach students how to be not only workers but civically engaged citizens of the world.
May 26, 2020
Libby Watson
Dominic Cummings’s Very Trumpian Response to His Very English Scandal
Britons are used to being able to humiliate their politicians, but the besieged Tory adviser is determined to survive his coronavirus bungle.
May 26, 2020
Julio Sibri
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J.C. Pan
I Was Already Underwater as a Cab Driver in New York. Then the Pandemic Hit.
Some of us drivers have a group chat, and most of the guys are in exactly the same situation—they can’t work.
May 26, 2020
Libby Watson
The Intolerable Cruelty of Our Eldercare System
Long before they were ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, our nursing homes were a place of heartlessness, abuse, and neglect.
May 26, 2020
Alex Pareene
The Crumbling Cult of Jamie Dimon
The head of JPMorgan Chase has long been hailed as a wise man. The pandemic has shown the weaknesses of his brand of liberalism.
May 25, 2020
Alex Shephard
Is Email the Future of Journalism?
With the industry in free fall, new models are emerging.
May 22, 2020
Matt Ford
The Blue Wave That Saved the Vote
Democrats may soon discover that their most important accomplishment in the last election wasn’t retaking the House of Representatives.
May 22, 2020
Rosana Araujo
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Clio Chang
I Lost My Job Cleaning Houses and Don’t Know Where I Go From Here
When the pandemic hit, my employers told me, “Do not come right now.” No one paid me for those cancellations.
May 22, 2020
J.C. Pan
What If Mass Unemployment Is Here to Stay?
We need anti-poverty measures that treat wide-scale joblessness as a starting point, not as a temporary problem that will naturally resolve itself.
May 21, 2020
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Unmattering of Black Lives
In the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, we see that the violence of the past is the violence of the present.
May 21, 2020
Marian Bull
Blow Up the Restaurant Industry and Start Over
A system that relies on exploitation isn’t one that should survive the pandemic. There’s a better way to feed people and care for workers.
May 21, 2020
Kim Kelly
The Rise of the 3D-Printed Gun
The pandemic has disrupted supply lines across the country, and people are taking manufacturing into their own hands—including gun owners.
May 20, 2020
Matt Ford
Donald Trump’s Never-Ending War on Numbers
The president has spent most of his career fudging the math, but his outstanding debt to the truth is finally coming due.
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