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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 |
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Christian Parenti, Dante Dallavalle Our Economy Is a Sick Beast: The Corporate Debt Crisis Explained This time, any industry bailouts must place corporate investment under public control. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Covid-19: Our Health Crisis Is Born of Bigotry Instead of erasing our weak parts, we’ve raced them, blaming vulnerability on the vulnerable and hoping the bridges wouldn’t break where we are. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Why America Has the World's Most Confirmed Covid-19 Cases Trump is profoundly culpable, but he is not the only reason for America's dismal situation in the face of this epidemic. Our for-profit health care system rakes in money on disease, not on health. Read more |
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Nicolas J.S. Davies Why Is the U.S.So Exceptionally Vulnerable to Covid-19? This exceptionally dysfunctional society has run smack-bang into a real force of nature, a tiny virus that can kill millions of people. Read more |
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Amanda Ballantyne American Small Businesses Are on Edge of Extinction Event and Congress Is Not Doing Enough Our most immediate need is to expand the small business grant program—for most small businesses, loans are not going to cut it. Read more |
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Neve Gordon The Gaza Strip Has Been Under Siege for Years. Covid-19 Could Be Catastrophic Within Gaza’s eight refugee camps, the systems organized to save lives—health care and food supply—will undoubtedly become lethal bottlenecks, petri dishes for the deadly virus. Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins Planet Coronavirus: Survival, Resistance and Regeneration Hopefully, 2020 will be recorded in the history books as a time when we mobilized, as never before, to overcome a national and global emergency, and launched a long-overdue political and social revolution, a U.S. and global Green New Deal. Read more |
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Susanna Goldfinger An Illustrated Compendium of Trump's Very Best Remarks About COVID-19 "One day—it's like a miracle—it will disappear." Read more |
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Tarah Walsh Organizing in the Time of Social Distancing Now more than ever, we need to make our digital campaigns meaningful. Read more |
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Chema Vera Never in Our Lifetimes Has There Been a Call for Compassion Like This The time is now for the G20 to help save millions of lives and kick-start the future that humanity needs to hope again. Only a compassionate and collective global response will do. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Bernie Sanders in the Age of Coronavirus: We Need Him Now More Than Ever Does anyone here seriously believe we’d be hearing a loud call for party unity if it were Bernie Sanders leading in the delegate count? Read more |
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Debra Gore-Mann, Adam Briones Senate COVID-19 Relief Bill Put Corporations First – Now, Let’s Take Care of People The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated glaring structural and racial inequities in American society. What the Senate has put forth is not nearly good enough. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Are Mass Plane Travel and Mass Tourism Unsustainable? The coronavirus pandemic is just a symptom of systemic problems the industries cannot resolve. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Release Prisoners Now to Slow Coronavirus' Spread This peril is immediate and pressing. There are 2.2 million Americans locked up at any one time, but over 11 million go through prison or jail gates in any one year. Read more |
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Robert Reich The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It The real divide is between democracy and oligarchy. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Stay in Your Home—And Stay Angry The economy's turned upside down, people are dying, and we're all cooped up because the people who are supposed to keep us safe didn’t. Read more |
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Kenny Stancil The Coronavirus Effect: Pandemic Exposes Structural Violence of US Ruling Class The inadequate preparation for and callous response to the unfolding health and economic crises puts brutal inequalities and distorted priorities on full display. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Virus Is Our Teacher Self-protection means doing what we can to protect—and understand—everyone. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Judgment Day for the National Security State The coronavirus and the real threats to American safety and freedom. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Never Seen Anything Like This: Unemployment Claims Jumped Nearly 1500% in Two Weeks I have been a labor economist for a very long time and this is simply unprecedented. Read more |
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Ashar Foley Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare For All Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system. Read more |
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Mike Pappas Healthcare Workers Are At War, But Trump Isn’t on Our Side NYC physician gave this speech about the war against the coronavirus and the ongoing war against for-profit health care, Trump and capitalism itself. The coronavirus pandemic is magnifying capitalism’s complete inability to foster overall health and well being. We don’t just need a new healthcare... Read more |
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Alex Lawson Don't Let Big Pharma Make a Killing by Profiteering Off COVID-19 Treatments These treatments should be available to everyone who needs them at no cost. Read more |
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Claudia Lefko Remembering the Days of the Invasion: Iraq 2003 Iraqi families were divided and separated around the world. Read more |
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Robert Dodge Coronavirus and Our Existential Threats This Presidential Season Pandemics, climate change, nuclear war, existential threats: the new abnormal; our sentinel moment. Read more |
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Debi Smith Reevaluating Our Priorities This crisis has illustrated, so clearly and painfully, some of the many weak spots in the fabric of our society that Bernie Sanders has spent a lifetime and two presidential candidacies passionately trying to focus our attention on. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise You Why is Venezuela doing so much better than its neighbors in the region? Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner The World’s Major Military and Economic Powers Find Happiness Elusive Perhaps it’s time for the citizens of the "great powers" to ask themselves if they are truly benefiting from the much-vaunted military and economic strength of their nations. Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger A Low-Cost Ventilator Could Be Available Next Year. But Will It? There's quite a lot to write about coronavirus. There's the coming need for hospital beds (" These Places Could Run Out of Hospital Beds as Coronavirus Spreads "), the need for parts for ventilators... Read more |
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Richard Eskow No, I Will Not Die for This Damned Economy But if I do die, it's likely to happen because we didn't plan for the longstanding possibility of a pandemic like this one. Why not? Because in this economy, the one that now asks the ultimate sacrifice of us, human life was less important than quarterly profits. That sounds like hollow rhetoric,... Read more |
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Fran Quigley "Every Healthcare Worker Is at Risk": A Physician Speaks Out on the Protective Equipment Shortage At this writing, President Trump appears to be resisting calls to use his federal powers to order private industry to increase production of necessary supplies, although the U.S. has done exactly that many times in wartime and during other crises. Read more |
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Aaron Sojourner, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham Coronavirus Pandemic Has Led to a Record-Breaking Spike in Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims An estimated 3.4 million workers filed for unemployment last week Read more |
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Joy Blackwood, Dr. Natasha DeJarnett We Must Vote To Protect Public Health Voting for public health requires identifying leaders with a strong track-record of public health prioritization, that value effective risk communication, and are committed to the advancement of health equity and justice. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt In Memoriam: A Planet of Missing Beauties "The skies are emptying out." Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino What Americans Don’t Know About Military Families America’s endless wars go on (and on) and the wounds multiply. Read more |
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Walden Bello Coronavirus and the Death of 'Connectivity' The Great Recession could have killed globalization, but China emerged as the champion of a new global "connectivity." With the coronavirus, that phase is finished. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump's Daily Dog and Pony Show Is Getting More Dangerous by the Day Trump combines in himself the worst dimensions of plutocracy and looniness, and the American people will rue the day they decided to give him the levers of power for the whole country. Read more |
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Roger Lancaster Love One Another or Die: Lessons for Coronavirus From the HIV/AIDS Crisis We learned to fight militantly and angrily for healthcare, in a country where healthcare is not a universal right. It made all the difference. Read more |
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Donatella della Porta Social Movements in Times of Pandemic: Another World Is Needed Faced with the glaring need for radical and complex transformation, social movements in times of crisis act differently from protests. Read more |
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Julie Hollar It Is Not Too Early to Ask: Can the US Pull Off a November Election Amid Coronavirus? And journalists will play a critical role in answering that question. Read more |