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Zoe Weil What We Choose to Eat Has Everything to Do With This Pandemic—and the Next One COVID-19, the environment, and animal suffering all point to the same conclusion Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trumpian Reciprocity in the Era of Covid-19 In the trumpeyed view of the world, it’s OK for the United States to send people infected with Covid-19 into other countries, but it’s not OK for people from foreign countries to enter the United States with that same infection. Read more |
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Scott Klinger Why Are Working People Forced to Sacrifice for the Common Good But Not the Titans of Capitalism? Why is it that lawmakers can order workers to stop working, and small business owners to lock their doors, but not order landlords, bankers, and Wall Street investors to also suspend their activities? Read more |
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Joshua Cho Corporate Media Deny Their Own Existence, Despite Driving Biden’s Primary Victory Why exactly should we trust for-profit media outlets to be impartial and have their news coverage untainted by their own business interests? Read more |
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F. Douglas Stephenson Some Medieval Towns Handled Plagues Better Than Trump's Unequal, Rundown America Even by historical standards, the U.S. president is an abysmal failure. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About Make no mistake: the simultaneous crisis of inequality and climate is no fluke. Both are the result of decades of deliberate choices made, and policies enacted, by ultra-wealthy and powerful corporations. Read more |
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Zach Carter Joe Biden Needs To Stay Away From Larry Summers Everything Summers touches turns to ruin. Read more |
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Randall Amster Don’t Drink the Snake Oil—Or the Disinfectant In a moment like this, where some steadying force is coveted, we have this circus instead. Read more |
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Joseph Gerson A Pandemic, the Geopolitical Struggle for Power, and the Urgency of Common Security The pandemic teaches that we are a single interdependent species, and that militarism and xenophobic policies threaten our security and survival. Read more |
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Morris Pearl Democrats Are Insulting American People by Repeatedly Saying 'Next Time' on Real Covid-19 Relief The challenges that millions of Americans are facing right now are real, life-threatening, and demand immediate, far-reaching action by our elected officials. It shouldn't be too much to ask that they act like it. Read more |
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Christian Christensen Want to Discuss Sweden and COVID19? Start By Looking Backward. Sweden's intake of refugees—from Syrians five years ago to Somalis ten years ago—may not seem like an obvious place to start, but it is. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Why the Democratic Party Must Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez If the Democratic leadership is serious about uniting the wings of the party for a decisive November victory, then it must recognize that AOC is a necessary part of this effort. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Covid By The Numbers Two and three-quarters of a million—that's the number of cases worldwide as of this morning. Read more |
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Tara Lohan Ten Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, We’re on Course to Repeat One of Our Worst Mistakes In the past few years, the Trump administration has signaled that it wants to vastly expand offshore drilling, including lifting drilling bans in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Read more |
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Gurmukteshwar Singh I’m an Immigrant Doctor Treating COVID-19 Patients. Death Isn’t My Only Fear Right Now. I cannot afford to die while waiting for a green card. Read more |
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Kyla Bennett EPA Is Abandoning Those Suffering From Toxic PFAS Pollution Even as the scientific case for regulation grows clearer and more urgent every year, the EPA under President Trump delays and obfuscates. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Cuba to the Rescue, But Don’t Tell the American People As we move through this crisis, we see the tragedy of the rich superpower with its privatized, dysfunctional health care system failing its people, while its impoverished neighbor — under constant attack from the superpower — reaches out to help the world. Read more |
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Chuck Collins U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surges as Covid-19 Pandemic Worsens As percentage of wealth, billionaire taxes have fallen 79% since 1980 Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé Climate Justice Arising—Hidden Hope in Dark Times Despite lack of federal leadership and underappreciated by most of us, key states and cities are not only getting it, they’re getting going—plowing ahead with solutions to the climate crisis grounded in social equity. Read more |
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Dalton Price The WHO Has Never Wanted Your Politics If the WHO did get political, maybe the U.S. wouldn’t have chosen corporate profit over basic human rights, because the WHO would question why the world’s richest country is unable to provide healthcare. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Failed to Vanquish Coronavirus With Hot Air, Now Wants to "Shoot Down" Tiny Iranian Skiffs What Trump was advising would be a war crime, since Iranian boats that haven’t actually fired on or harmed US vessels have a right to be on the high seas, and interfering in that right to the point of termination with extreme prejudice is illegal. Read more |
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Robert Lipsyte Reopening Day 2020?: Big-Time Spectator Sports Are the Last Things We Need No Football, No Trump. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum Some say preventing the re-election of Trump isn't important. That amounts to ignoring political reality, an evasion with potentially vast consequences. Read more |
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Kee B. Park, Christine Ahn South Korea Is a Model for Combatting COVID-19, It Should Now Take the Lead in Diplomacy With North Korea Moon has all the leverage he needs to resolve a 70-year-old conflict and create a model for peace and stability in Northeast Asia. Read more |
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Ericka Taylor Not This Time: Watch Out for Wall Street in a Pandemic Back during the Great Recession, we bailed out Wall Street. This time, we need to make sure the bailout is for the rest of us. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Moral Injury and the Pandemic of Violence People still need help for more than just COVID-19. The blowback of our wars is still with us, complicating the present moment. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Stopping Trump’s Demonic Reversals of the Long-term Benefits of the First Earth Day April 22, 1970 The omnicidal Republicans controlling the Senate support Trump’s reckless agenda regardless of the environmental harm done to their own families. Read more |
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Jeff Biggers An Earth Day After Coal: Amid All the Bad News, A Major Turning Point Launched as a call for resistance against the primacy of corporate profits, Earth Day turns a historic corner. Read more |
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Markie Miller, Crystal Jankowski Abolish Earth Day For 50 years, environmentalists have celebrated the illusion that the law is on their side. Read more |
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F. Douglas Stephenson Medicare for All: Covid-19 Shows When It Comes to Health, the Government Is Your Friend, the Private Sector Sees You as an ATM Everyone should categorically reject fear tactics about 'Medicare for All.' Read more |
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Margaret Kimberley Cooperation Humboldt and the Solidarity Economy Founded in 2017, Cooperation Humboldt was already incubating worker cooperatives, administering food sovereignty programs, advocating for public banking and participatory budgeting, and exploring housing cooperatives, an arts hub, and eco-villages—all before the pandemic arrived in the U.S. Read more |
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Alex Kotch Groups Aligned with Right-Wing Megadonors Are Promoting Coronavirus Protests The DeVos-funded Mackinac Center promoted the Michigan protest, named "Operation Gridlock." Another organizer of the protest, Michigan Conservatives, is led by Meshawn Maddock, an adviser to Trump's presidential campaign. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Corporate Welfare During Covid-19 Pandemic Is Morally Repugnant Here’s the bottom line: no mega-corporation deserves a cent of bailout money. Read more |
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Lois Marie Gibbs The EPA Just Gave Polluters A License To Kill Today the EPA acknowledges more than 40,000 communities across the United States are dangerously polluted with toxic chemicals, from rural areas to major cities like Birmingham and Detroit. Read more |
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Madeleine Bair A Public-Health Crisis Demands Equitable Local News During an emergency, trustworthy information is paramount, and inequitable access is deadly. Read more |
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Jim Hightower The Deadly Economic Disease Behind COVID-19 The severity and gross disparity of our country's present economic collapse is not simply caused by a sudden viral outbreak but by a severe, decadeslong plutocratic policy of intentionally maximizing profits for the rich and minimizing everyone else's well-being. Read more |
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Jon Hinck My Earth Day We still need to demonstrate that we can rebuild the economy in a way that preserves life on this blue planet. Earth Day+50 is the time to do that. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Will America’s Corruption End on a Ventilator or in a Mushroom Cloud? A political system that is structurally incapable of acting for the common good, even when millions of lives are at stake, is not just failing to solve our problems. It is the problem. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Coronavirus Has Made Incarceration a Potential Death Sentence Prisons should be a priority for supplies, for tests, and for early release of as many inmates as possible, particularly the elderly and the vulnerable. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Another Republican "Grassroots" Movement Hijacks the Media Protests against COVID-19 restrictions, like the Tea Party protests, are corporate fronts. Read more |
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Juan Cole US Oil "Technically Worthless," and Coal Plants Shuttered, as a Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Looms The oil companies are likely looking at multi-billion-dollar tort lawsuits because they hid the dangers of the climate emergency and even actively muddied the waters by funding denialism. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam American Carnage: How Donald Trump Is Killing Us Arrogance and chaos define the federal response to the pandemic. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis Inequality and the Coronavirus Or how to destroy American society from the top down. Read more |
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Michael Winship Live from Planet Television, Donald Trump – Every Night! Deprived of rallies to inflate his ego, the president muscles in on sickness and death. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis Solidarity Is Not What Europe Needs As the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe worsened, the leaders of nine eurozone countries called for the issuance of “coronabonds” to help spread more evenly the additional debt governments would incur as they struggled to replace disappearing private incomes. But while the idea is sound, it was doomed... Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Trump's Reelection Strategy: Pit Workers Against Democrats Will blaming the Democrats for economic hardship caused by the pandemic that he himself mishandled help Trump again squeak out a narrow electoral college victory? Read more |
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Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care Cobra Is Not Enough! Congress Must Expand Medicare Coverage to Everyone for Duration of Coronavirus Crisis Big problems demand big solutions: Congress Must Expand Medicare Coverage to Everyone in America for the Duration of the Crisis. Read more |
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Gwynne Dyer Time for Fauci to Quit? If Fauci hangs in there and stresses the inevitability of a second wave of deaths closer to election time if the lockdowns end prematurely, he might just manage to steer Trump away from this cliff. Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman How YOU Can Dump Trump Neither the human race, nor American democracy, nor the US economy will survive more of this. Our further existence as a species depends on you. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Strange Attractors: On Being Addicted to Trump and His Press Conferences (Un)Reality TV, 2020-Style. Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer Our Response to the Coronavirus Demonstrates How Far America Has Careened Off Track We can’t make the masks we need, but we pour billions into an unnecessary military build-up. Read more |
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Heather Mallick Why are Americans So Servile to a Clown President? Titles are very important to Americans. So is paperwork. Read more |
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Amy Merrill Lessons From COVID-19 to Address the Climate Crisis Perhaps the COVID-19 experience will wake us to our capacity to demand changes of ourselves, our communities, and local, state, and federal governments. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Coronavirus and Small Government Sociopathy As the devastating impact of Trump's inaction becomes clear, Americans are discovering a hidden socialist streak. Read more |
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Carlos Davidson Finding Hope in Dark Times While Avoiding Environmentalists' Mistakes of the Past Post pandemic we will need to fight for a green and just recovery that brings together addressing climate change and caring for those hurt by the crisis. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trump the Snake Oil Salesman Trump began touting the virtues of drugs to combat the coronavirus about which he knew no more than the hawkers of snake oil in the latter part of the 19th century. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Lies Won't Stop COVID-19 In Trumpistan, none of the sycophants and yes-men around the president, except for the admirable Dr. Fauci, dared contradict the Great White Father. Read more |
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Joel Wendland-Liu Trump's Anti-Chinese Racist Campaign Strategy Mobilizes Right-Wing Extremists The move is part of a broader Trump campaign strategy in the run-up to the November presidential elections. Read more |
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Rani Marx & James G. Kahn COVID-19 and the Myth of 'Choice' in American Healthcare The insidious root of the problem is that healthcare as a market commodity simply does not work, and we've known this for decades. Read more |
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Juan Cole 'Unhinged' Trump Calls on His Mussolini-Style Black Shirts to Attack Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia Given the tensions in the country and the real possibility of violence, Trump's tweets rise to the level of shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman & Carlos Davidson Rethinking Freedom, Government, and Expertise in the Time of COVID-19 A misplaced fear of government action and a lack of trust in science have tragically weakened the U.S. response to the pandemic. Read more |
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Richard Wolff Learning From Coronavirus: We Can't Rely on Capitalism to Serve Our Most Basic Social Needs It was not profitable for private capitalists within the medical-industrial complexes of modern capitalism to produce or stockpile the medical supplies needed to properly manage a viral pandemic. Read more |
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Robert P. Alvarez The Next Coronavirus Bill Must Protect the 2020 Election We need no-excuse absentee voting now—and that's the bare minimum. Read more |
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Hamilton Nolan Furloughed Disney Workers "Can't Wait" For Help, But Florida's Unemployment System Is Broken "Nobody can do anything. Nobody can apply. The system is crashed." Read more |
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Ralph Nader Shouldn't Our Elected Representatives Be on the Job Providing Essential Services? Some lawmakers want a remote Congress so they can remain AWOL and pretend to deal with the many crises remotely. Read more |
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Jennifer Stisa Granick Apple and Google Announced a Coronavirus Tracking System. How Worried Should We Be? A well-designed tool could offer public health benefit, but a poorly designed one could pose unnecessary and significant risks to privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. Read more |
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Brian Terrell COVID-19 and the Wasting Disease of Normalcy The pandemic has brought home what the threats of global destruction by climate change and nuclear war should have long ago—that the promises of normalcy will never deliver in the end. Read more |
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Ariel Gold De-Funding the World Health Organization: Unethical, Cruel, and Dangerous for the World COVID-19 has shown just how deeply interconnected people are. Now is precisely the time to be increasing global cooperation, not cutting funding to the WHO. Read more |
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Dean Baker It’s the End of the World Economy as We Know It, Just Like the Great Recession The issue here is not the importance of the dollar, but rather the reluctance of other major economic powers to directly challenge U.S. policy. Read more |
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Shanna Hanbury Indigenous Group Wins Unprecedented Right of Reply to Bolsonaro’s Racist Invective A federal judge in Brazil has ordered government websites to post a letter from the Kinja indigenous people for 30 days as part of their right to respond to racist rhetoric from the president's administration. Read more |
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Remington A. Gregg Canceling Student Loan Debt Isn’t Just the Right Thing to Do—It Makes Economic Sense Forty-five million Americans hold a whopping $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. Eight million of those individuals have defaulted on their loans. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren The GOP Has Become a Death Cult American conservatism—the so-called "culture of life"—worships annihilation. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher So, Joe Biden, Here’s the Deal Might the current Covid-19 situation make you think that the U.S. needed to immediately adopt some form of universal health insurance? Read more |
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John Feffer Living in Dystopia "The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet." Read more |
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Tamara Pearson The Self-Centered Rich Country Response to Pandemics and Crises Is Wrecking Poor Countries Along with measures like rent freezes and guaranteeing workers’ rights, really addressing a global pandemic involves public health planning that cross borders and confronting global inequality and the climate crisis. Read more |
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Shahid Mahmood I Am Not a Virus "Less than 0.001% of Chinese people have coronavirus, yet more than 99.999% have already experienced coronaracism." Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz In the Last Four Weeks, More Than 20 Million Workers Applied for Unemployment Insurance Benefits Congress has the power to dramatically mitigate the suffering associated with the coronavirus shock, and they have an obligation to exercise it. Read more |
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Laurie Macfarlane A Spectre Is Haunting the West–the Spectre of Authoritarian Capitalism From coronavirus to climate change, China is surging ahead of the US and its allies. Are we witnessing the slow death of liberal capitalism? Read more |
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Joshua Cho Pandemic Doesn’t Stop Corporate Media From Crusading Against Universal Healthcare It’s vital that media do everything they can to press the government and inform citizens about a system that can deliver the healthcare we need when we have never needed it more. Read more |
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Robert Dodge Budgets Are Moral Documents: Nuclear Weapons Funding and COVID-19 Response We are one interconnected human family on this planet and at long last, it is time to recognize this fact. The cessation of funding and elimination of nuclear weapons would be a good-faith step in recognizing this reality. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler War, Irony and the New Normal The world devotes $2 trillion annually to war and armaments, all in the name of keeping itself safe. This is insanity beyond comprehension. Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher "Make the Damn Masks!" There have been at least 45 walkouts for coronavirus protection already and there is growing talk of a nationwide strike to force the government to act. Read more |
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John Buell Ventilators: Even Equal Access Leaves Vital Questions Covid-19 is dangerous enough—we must not let our fear of this virus strip us of our abilities to ask crucial questions, even in these very unnerving times. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Bernie's Pivot for Biden Might Not Be Pleasant, But Trump Must Be Defeated If anyone thinks it doesn't matter much whether Trump is re-elected, they're living in some kind of bubble. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein I Take Hydroxychloroquine. Please Don't Hoard It. To prevent hoarding and protect public health, we need to move towards universal care and lower-cost drugs. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Beyond Bernie: The Next Challenge for Progressives Once the mourning is over, we must build on his campaign and turn this movement into greater leverage and power. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Facing Our Other Crises With Lessons From COVID-19 As we prepare to bring our economies back from their pause, it is time to work hard for a just and green recovery. We have the resources, the scientific and technical knowledge, and the proven policies for all of us to live well. Read more |
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Aminata Touré Africa Is Relying on its Own Forces in Fight Against Covid-19 The African Union must, more than ever, reinforce the scientific cooperation among its member states in order to insure our common health sovereignty. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores Threatening Military Intervention in Venezuela During a Pandemic? With cities in Venezuela under lockdown and the country struggling to address a looming public health crisis and yet another economic shock, it is clear that the Trump administration sees a new opportunity to exercise "maximum pressure" to try to achieve regime change. Read more |
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Lexi McMenamin Bernie’s Campaign Suspension Shows How Far We Have to Go The movements that drove the Sanders campaign are still fighting for a better world. Read more |
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Robbie Goldstein US Hospitals Are Sick With COVID-19. Here's the Treatment. Moving towards a Medicare for All healthcare system will not just stem the financial losses that hospitals are now experiencing, but will ensure that we are prioritizing care and equity in our healthcare system. Read more |
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Bilal Hussain Fighting Covid-19—And Repression—in Kashmir The Indian government’s repression of doctors and restrictions on the Internet could make the pandemic far deadlier in the formerly autonomous region. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Democracy Wins in Wisconsin Republicans fail in their effort to win Supreme Court seat by putting lives at risk. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s Failed Coronavirus Response At every point, Trump has used this crisis to compliment himself. Read more |
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Douglas Medina Working-Class Students Doing Double Duty During Coronavirus CUNY students struggling to complete their current courses under stressful conditions, while also working to provide for themselves and their families, exemplify preexisting inequities that the unprecedented pandemic have only amplified. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The Promise and the Peril of the Millennial Left On the value of demands and the pitfalls of ultimatums. Read more |
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Emily Peterson-Cassin Even During a Pandemic, Digital Privacy Matters We do not have to become a data dystopia. But we must act quickly to stop the coronavirus from turning us into one. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Coronavirus Illustrates Our Failure to Create a Fair Society African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to die because we bear the pre-existing condition known as race. Read more |
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F. Douglas Stephenson 1 Out of 5 Americans Need Mental Health Care But Are Denied It—Yet Another Reason for Medicare for All Our mental health care system needs to get private health insurance out of it. Read more |
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Julie Hollar There’s No Reason to Turn Airtime Over to Trump’s Deceptive Coronavirus Campaign Rallies If the powerful are spreading life-threatening lies, do not freely give them a huge platform to reach more people with those lies. Read more |