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Leonardo Flores The U.S. Should Fight COVID, Not Venezuela The implications of this should be evident: Venezuela has a substantial population that will resist any invasion or coup. Read more |
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Alan Minsky Stay in the race Bernie Sanders. America needs you now more than ever. Progressive Democrats of America calls upon Senator Bernie Sanders to continue his presidential campaign until the end of the 2020 primary season. Read more |
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John Nichols Wisconsin Democrats Chose Public Health and Democracy, Republicans Chose Chaos GOP lawmakers in our state threw tantrums at a point when everyone else was working to save lives, keep people healthy, stabilize the economy and preserve democracy. And the judicial activists on the high court sided with these legislative charlatans. Read more |
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Karyn Strickler A Birthday in the Time of Pandemic What are the chances that nature itself may be revitalized as human dominance diminished? Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram Health Care Workers Need You to Be our Heroes. Here’s How. Yes, health care workers have a sense of duty. And yes, us doctors are driven by the Hippocratic oath. But none of us want to be martyrs. When we speak out publicly about the lack of PPE, we are calling attention to a public health crisis compounding the catastrophes of COVID-19. Read more |
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Anthony Zenkus The Inconvenient Truth of Rape Yes, we are in the middle of a contentious primary season and a presidential election with much on the line. And, yes, allegations of sexual assault or rape against the current leader in the Democratic primaries are inconvenient. But rape is even more inconvenient. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg While Rome Burns, Trump Gets What He’s Always Wanted A victory parade in the coronavirus moment. Read more |
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Josh Bivens, Celine McNicholas What a 'Phase Four' Stimulus Package Must Provide This bill must be passed quickly and must be sufficient in scope and magnitude to address the severity of the economic and public health crisis we are experiencing. Read more |
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Isaiah J. Poole Infrastructure and a Green Stimulus: Why We Must Organize Before Congress Acts Even without a Donald Trump in the White House, we know from past experience what an infrastructure bill coming out of Congress would look like absent overwhelming grassroots pressure. Read more |
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Pete Tucker To Stop Bernie Sanders, WaPo Willing to Risk Americans’ Lives Sanders is subjected to Post attacks, while his rival—who, like the Post, opposes Medicare for All—receives decidedly different treatment. Read more |
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Michael Winship Lost in the Mail in the Coronavirus Era The pandemic threatens letter carriers, their customers, the US Postal Service itself – and even the November election. Read more |
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Jeff Milchen Dying to Vote in Wisconsin (And a Warning for November) Those of us who value democracy need to stop solely playing defense against the endless array of vote suppression tactics devised by Republicans. Read more |
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James Zogby The Political Toll of COVID-19 The supporters of Bernie Sanders will not accept being silenced or stage-managed out of existence. Read more |
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Edin Omanovic The Surveillance Industry Won’t Save Us From Crises Turning to the security industry isn’t the solution: it’s a symptom of the problem. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Should Bernie Drop Out or Stay In? Wait, There’s Another Choice. The most selfless thing Bernie can do now is not to leave the race, but stay in it. Read more |
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Jenice Robinson Returning to the Economic Status Quo After COVID-19 Crisis Should Not Be an Option A growing contingent of grassroots advocates are raising their voices , demanding change, and telling our elected officials that the challenges working families face are deeply ingrained and must be addressed . Read more |
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Danica Jorden "Essential" Immigrant Farmworkers Struggle to Feed Themselves During Coronavirus Immigrant farmworkers have long been essential to the United States. But they have never been recognized, respected or properly rewarded for their labour. Read more |
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Juan Cole Why America’s Anti-Science and Anti-Intellectual Attitudes Doom It to Coronavirus "Pearl Harbor" When people let their ideologies overrule reason, they are digging their own graves. Read more |
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Leah Garcés COVID-19 Illuminates Our Food System’s Failure to Protect the Most Vulnerable Addressing these flaws starts with choosing more plant-based foods and pressuring meat producers and regulatory agencies to protect workers and animals. Read more |
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Reynard Loki Saving People From Coronavirus Can Teach Us How to Do the Same for Climate Change It is technically feasible to achieve big reductions in pollutants that are fueling the climate crisis. All that’s required is a break in economic production and human activity. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Pandemic Makes the Bernie 2020 Campaign More Vital Than Ever At a time when the structural failures of a corporatized society have never been more glaring and deadly, we desperately need Sanders’ voice to be heard far and wide. Read more |
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Nomi Prins Wall Street Wins, Again: Bailouts in the Time of Coronavirus An all-American urge to offer corporate welfare. Read more |
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Liz Carlisle We Need a Green New Deal for Farmland "A lot of people want to be farmers now—especially young people who are aware of the effects of climate change... Why not offer the opportunity for meaningful and gainful work that is beneficial to everybody, to people and planet?" Read more |
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Margaret Kimberley COVID-19 and Black Workers "The structures that keep black people persistently at the bottom of every positive measure and at the top of every negative indicator are firmly in place." Read more |
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Jill Richardson Efficiency vs. Resilience "This crisis is pulling back the curtain on unfettered laissez-faire capitalism, showing that we are actually interconnected. And it's far more serious than toilet paper." Read more |
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Kirk Freudenburg Trump’s Easter Fantasy: Stay Tuned "By now we know this man too well: there is simply too much adulation to be generated from a 'Covid Accomplished' spectacle to be left untapped." Read more |
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Robert Freeman Will the Media Help Elect Trump? Again? "The media doesn’t need to choose sides in the story. It need only courageously do its job in reporting the facts of Trump's critical role in allowing the pandemic to spread." Read more |
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Brian Terrell A Tale of Two Stockpiles Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. on the anniversary of his murder in a pandemic year. Read more |
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David Suzuki Let's Come Together in These Physically Distancing Times "As bad as things are, and could get, compassion and wisdom will ensure that good emerges from this." Read more |
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Hamilton Nolan Here’s What a General Strike Would Take "We are living through the most opportune environment for massive, radical labor actions in many decades." Read more |
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Joshua Cho Corporate Media Ignore International Cooperation as Shortcut to Coronavirus Vaccine "We have people around the world working as fast as they can to try to develop an effective vaccine against this dangerous disease. That is great—except these people are working in competition, not in collaboration." Read more |
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Ralph Nader Coronavirus Failures Show Trump Is Clear and Present Danger to the United States Seven "pro-contagion activities" by Trump increased the coronavirus death toll in the United States. Read more |
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Anja Rudiger From Free CovidCare to Medicare For All: The Time is Now to Provide Health Care as a Public Good for All "As the virus ravages our communities, our only hope is to force the health system to respond to our needs." Read more |
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Adolph Reed Jr. Disparity Ideology, Coronavirus, and the Danger of the Return of Racial Medicine Why "race" is less useful—both empirically and politically—than ever as a proxy for the social conditions of poverty, lack of healthcare, and mass inequality. Read more |
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Janine Jackson Democracy Dies in Blah Blah Blah The president of the country has declared himself an opponent of one person, one vote democracy. We already knew that, but he said it out loud, on the record. Read more |
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Susan Sered Why 'Waging War' on Coronavirus Is a Dangerous Metaphor Wars are used as excuses for dismissing concerns for justice or human rights, claiming that these concerns are distractions from the "real" mission. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Was the Fed Just Nationalized? Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly 'He’s Got Eight Numbers, Just Like Everybody Else': An Anti-Nuclear Activist Behind Bars Trident nuclear disarmament activist Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest, begins his third year imprisoned in a county jail as he and his companions await sentencing. Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher Strike for Your Life! There have been more than a dozen strikes in the past two weeks by workers striking to protect themselves against infection by the coronavirus. They have already won increased protection. What do they portend for the future? Read more |
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Bill Moyers "There's Going to Be Scandal Involved in This Bailout. It Is Unquestionable' Here We Go Again! A discussion between Bill Moyers and Neil Barofksy, former chief inspector general of the TARP program, on big corporate bailouts. Read more |
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Ted Morgan The Message—and Meaning—of COVID-19 Coronavirus is neoliberalism’s Chernobyl. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs How US Can Keep Death Toll Far Below the 100,000 Projection During the coming weeks we must build up the public health systems across the nation. Read more |
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Peter S. Arno, Philip Caper Medicare for Each of Us in the Age of the Coronavirus The U.S. public—and increasingly the business community—are becoming acutely aware of the rising costs and inadequacies of our current for-profit system, particularly as the current epidemic unfolds. There is no other choice but Medicare for All. Read more |
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Elise Gould March’s Huge Job Losses Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg of What’s to Come EPI estimates that nearly 20 million jobs could be lost by July. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Where’s the Money for Health Care and Saving the Planet? Well, We Clearly Have It. The necessary response to the COVID outbreak shows how foolish politicians have been to say there's no money for the things the US—and the world—so desperately need. Read more |
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Rick Claypool Even During a Pandemic, Plutocrats Prioritize Profits Over People These 24 billionaires, executives, and right-wing pundits are urging a premature rollback of social distancing, risking millions of American lives. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Fighting for a Just COVID-19 Response The coronavirus gives us the opportunity to declare in our political and medical decisions that we will not drape the cloak of invisibility over historically neglected victims of disaster. Read more |
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Robert Reich How to Prepare for the Trump Recession Stronger safety nets are not only good for individuals and families in need. They will also prevent the looming recession from becoming an even deeper and longer economic crisis. Read more |
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John Feffer We Need a Coronavirus Truce International cooperation needs to take priority right now, and countries must stop their wars against one another and against their own populations. Read more |
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Dorothee Benz When the Invisible Hand Gives You the Finger Corporate media shrug as elite declare loss of profits worse than loss of lives. Read more |
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Kenny Stancil The Coronavirus Paradox: Biden's Delegate Lead Increases as the Need for Bernie's Politics Adds Up The unfolding health and economic crises confirms the importance of moving quickly in the direction Bernie Sanders has been pointing. It is time to construct a new normal that is truly decent—one that is characterized by social and economic democracy. Read more |
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Ed Bolen Unemployed Workers Can Get SNAP During Health Emergency States may need to update their public information about eligibility and their application process to enable eligible people to receive SNAP. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz 'Portrait of Disaster': Initial Unemployment Claims in US Jump from 211,000 to 6.6 million in Just 3 Weeks Given the incredible deterioration of the labor market in a matter of weeks, federal policymakers will absolutely need to come back and provide more desperately needed relief. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Mother Nature’s Response to Human Transgression? The coronavirus may not, in retrospect, prove to be the tipping point that upends human civilization as we know it, but it should serve as a warning that we will experience ever more such events in the future as the world heats up. Read more |
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Juan Cole Incompetence on Covid-19 Exposed at Home, Trump Tests Wagging the Dog With Threats Against Iran One reason for Trump’s saber-rattling against Iran may be that he hopes a conflict with Iran could take the public's mind off his criminal mishandling of the coronavirus. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Fury and the Folly: We Need a Vaccine to Stop Endless War What if idealism were the essence of human politics, not its scapegoat? Read more |
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Christine Ahn, Kevin Martin US Response to Coronavirus in North Korea Can Save Lives and Lead to Peace The urgency of the situation calls for drastic changes to business as usual. We can turn the COVID-19 crisis into a critical opportunity for international cooperation on the Korean Peninsula by reallocating resources toward protecting human health and reviving the stalled diplomacy between the US... Read more |
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Kevin Basl Thank Farmers and Grocery Workers for Their Service Our national security depends on those workers who feed us. They deserve a living wage and health care. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Could COVID-19 Reshape Global Leadership? The United States is failing miserably to provide a good example of how to successfully combat COVID-19, but other nations are offering better models of what can be done and should be done. Read more |
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Mari Margil Advancing Change in a Time of Disruption: Forging a New Pathway for Nature A disruption—such as a global pandemic—can provide a window of opportunity to change our habits and make positive change. Read more |
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Carl Rhodes Where Are All the Woke Capitalists Now? The COVID-19 crisis clearly shows that the neoliberal experiment has failed to prepare the world for crisis. But, it demonstrates that the experiment is not any good for normal times either. Read more |
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Timothy Karr We Must De-Trump the Airwaves to Protect Public Health Amid COVID-19 Outbreak "This is a life or death issue." Read more |
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Jeff Biggers 'How Are We Supposed to Protect Our Lungs?': Climate Strikers Blast EPA Suspension of Pollution Laws Greta Thunberg and others argue that the Trump administration has created another "loophole" for environmental destruction. Read more |
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Amy Silverman Nurses: We Are the Canaries in the Coronavirus Mine Instead of saying we're heroes, we need people and organizations to stand up and protest the unsafe working conditions in healthcare facilities all across the country. Read more |
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Randall Amster Holding Our Breath, Together and Apart Crises illuminate our dependency on one another, and on remote chains of production and distribution—but also highlight a resiliency and capacity to live within limits. Read more |
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Alex Formuzis With Air Pollution on the Rise Under Trump, People at Risk of Severe Illness From Coronavirus On Tuesday, the Trump administration released its final rule rolling back President Obama’s fuel efficiency standards for automobiles, which will allow cars and light trucks to cumulatively emit nearly 1 billion more tons of lung-damaging carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicle fleet than... Read more |
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Dave Cooke Trump Administration Finalizes Car Rule Which Will Worsen Economy, Public Health This policy is bad for consumers, bad for public health, and bad for the environment. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Coronavirus Makes It More Clear Than Ever: Health Care Is a Human Right We shouldn’t be satisfied with single-payer coverage just during a massive pandemic. This crisis exposes dramatically the foolishness of pretending that health care is a private marketplace. We need Medicare for All now. Read more |
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Robert Reich In the Name of Profit and Greed, Billionaire Class Declares: 'Back to Work!' We must put public health over all other concerns. Read more |
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William Astore What My Father Taught Me About Living Through Coronavirus Hard Times Having it easy in the beginning, tough in the end Read more |
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Matt Gardner Congress "CARES" for Wealthy With COVID-19 Tax Giveaways At a time when record numbers of Americans are facing unemployment, state and local governments are facing a perfect storm of growing public investment needs and vanishing tax revenues, and small business owners are struggling to avoid even more layoffs, lavishing tax breaks on the top 1 percent in... Read more |
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James Adams , James Barker Coronavirus Means Tough Decision Time for Seniors There is little time in this moment to think about "what might have been," but for seniors like us there are now profound questions about what we do next. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren How a Yale Academic Trolls the Liberals on Trump's Looming Reelection Walter Russell Mead writes Trump campaign propaganda disguised as analysis. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon The Future May Be Female, But the Pandemic Is Patriarchal Feminism in the time of Coronavirus Read more |
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Tish O'Dell, Simon Davis-Cohen Corporate America Is on Offense—Local Communities Can Be Too This crisis calls for us to challenge the government system that is failing us. Now is an opportunity for radical collective action. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Jerry Brown: Zen and the Art of Pandemic Response When "small is beautiful" becomes a deadly mantra. Read more |
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Diane Archer In Fighting the Coronavirus Pandemic in the US, Nothing Beats Traditional Medicare The argument has always been that establishing a public health insurance system would cost too much and cause too much disruption. Now, look around. Read more |
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Will Bunch Will Coronavirus Kill Off the News Business Just When America Realized We Actually Need It? Journalists providing accurate, real-time information are a critical part of that web. Read more |
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Katie Halper Media Silent as Poll Workers Contract Covid-19 at Primaries That DNC, Biden Campaign Claimed Were Safe Why have media that have rightly taken Trump and his administration to task for their fatal failures not done the same with Democratic leadership? Read more |
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Ani Maitra COVID-19 and the Neoliberal State of Exception How do neoliberal governments act in emergency situations when the interests of the private sector top their agenda? Read more |
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Arwa Mahdawi Why Has the Media Ignored Sexual Assault and Misbehaviour Allegations Against Biden? Conservatives who didn’t care about the multiple sexual assault allegations against Trump have seized on the accusations while liberals turn a blind eye. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Trump's Mass Negligent Homicide Doesn't Let Democratic Leaders Off the Hook If leadership is the metric, what is the measure? Read more |
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Ruth Conniff COVID-19 Pandemic Shows That We Don't Need Return to Normalcy—We Need President Bernie Sanders Middle America: What happened to the revolution? Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram For National Doctors' Day, Forget the Donuts. Can We Get Some Damn Masks? The inadequate supply of personal protective equipment has already killed patients and providers. This is not only dangerous, it is shameful. Read more |
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John Buell Corporate Media Ignores How Privatization of US Hospitals Explains Lack of Beds, Ventilators The politics of healthcare and Covid19 provide ample reasons for anger—toward corporate healthcare and the corporate media so oblivious to their exploitation. Read more |
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Michael Winship Pandemic Be Damned, The Business of America Is Business! Trump tap dances at the Masque of the Red Death. Read more |
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Peter Dreier There’s No “Trade-Off” Between Saving Lives and Saving the Economy A humane society doesn’t trade some lives for others Read more |
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Benjamin Barber Safeguarding Elections Amid a Pandemic Civil rights groups say a minimum of $2 billion is needed to properly safeguard the upcoming elections amid the coronavirus crisis. Read more |
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Bama Athreya A Pandemic Is No Time for Precarious Work There's never an excuse to send people to work in dangerous conditions with no safety nets and benefits. It's especially horrendous in the midst of coronavirus. Read more |
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Dean Baker The Relative Generosity of the Economic Rescue Package: Boeing and Public Broadcasting Being the empathetic crew they are, Trump and the Republicans rushed to set aside a nice chunk of taxpayer dollars for Boeing in their big corporate slush fund. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm As COVID-19 threatens to engulf war-torn Yemen, it is even more critical to raise awareness of how the war debilitates the country. Read more |
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Vi Bui Fighting COVID-19 Starts With Universal Access to Water and Sanitation Water shutoffs are a huge problem in the U.S. Read more |
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David Korten Why Coronavirus Is Humanity’s Wake-Up Call Seeing now the profound failure of our existing institutions, we also awaken to the truth of our possibilities and interconnections with one another and with Earth. Read more |
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Les Leopold Is Wall Street Killing Grandma? As we scramble to locate hospital beds and life-saving equipment during this pandemic, remember that we are fighting two diseases. Read more |
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Imani Countess and William Minter Can Coronavirus Be a Catalyst for Thinking Globally? In an age of pandemics and climate crisis, countries’ health, environmental, and development policies are globally important. Read more |
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Sue Sturgis COVID-19 Crisis Reveals Broadband Inequity A new index from the Institute for Southern Studies gives the numbers behind the connectivity inequality. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores Trump’s Narcoterrorism Indictment of Maduro Already Backfires The indictments are another brick in the foundation for a pretext for either a direct U.S. military invasion or a proxy war. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Donald Trump Meets the Easter Bunny The president has amazingly declared that the people in the United States will be able to resume all their normal activities after Easter, thanks to him. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Coronavirus Makes Clear: The Time for Serious Civic Reforms Is Now! Out of this crisis can come efficient historic changes for justice Read more |
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Richard Eskow How Many Nedas? Iran Sanctions Are Biological Warfare Against Civilians This is not an economic policy. It is the collective punishment of civilians. It is an act of biological warfare against children, the elderly, and people of all ages. Read more |