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May 29, 2020
Kim Kelly
No More Cop Unions
Abolishing police unions should be part of the broader fight to defund, demilitarize, and ultimately dismantle the U.S. police force.
May 29, 2020
Patricia
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Melissa Gira Grant
I Gave Birth While Incarcerated During a Pandemic
“It got to the point where us pregnant females were denying our medical treatment. It was almost like a boycott.”
May 29, 2020
Apollo O'Deorain
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Nick Martin
My Life on Rent Strike
“We’re not asking for handouts. We’re asking for genuine human compassion during this time.”
May 29, 2020
Timothy Noah
The Trump Administration Has Abandoned Worker Safety at the Worst Moment
Despite the pandemic, OSHA is refusing to enforce a rule that protects employees from fatal hazards.
May 29, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The Coronavirus Was Here
As the coronavirus lockdown lifts, I visited the scene of the most notorious spring break party of the pandemic’s early days.
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
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 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 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
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.
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