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The Pentagon warned the White House about a shortage of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds in 2017—but the Trump administration did nothing.
Ken Klippenstein
At a federal courthouse, the risk of infection joins the threat of deportation.
Debbie Nathan
The combination of plutocratic bailouts and a physically endangered working class is sparking a new blue-collar militancy.
Jeet Heer
The disparity in who has access to coronavirus tests is just the beginning.
Shuja Haider
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More than half a million people across the United States experience homelessness on any given night, and they face acute risks from the coronavirus.
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There are lots of ways for the Trump administration to cook the data to hide the extent of the coronavirus outbreak—in fact, it already is doing so.
Sonia Shah
A visual diary of the invisible workforce keeping our economy moving during this crisis.
Peter van Agtmael , The Nation and The Magnum Foundation
Humanitarian deterrence of the virus, not Cold War–era regime change, should be the top priority of US foreign policy.
Peter Kornbluh
Richard A. Epstein’s crank theories about the coronavirus are influential thanks to a powerful network of right-wing legal activists.
Jeet Heer
That some cities and states have stepped up to fill the gap left by Trump’s catastrophic failure is a matter of luck, not design.
Richard Kreitner
The governor’s position on health care spending looked starkly different a couple of months ago.
Ross Barkan
I am locked down in Barcelona, but at least there is universal health care and a tradition of mutual support.
Ben Ehrenreich
Israel, which continues to control Gaza’s borders, has for decades intentionally weakened the economy and health of the world’s largest open-air prison.
Neve Gordon
As the city prepares to reopen after two months of lockdown, a resident shares why she’ll never see Chinese society the same way again.
Jessie Lau
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Scientists have fingered bats and pangolins as potential sources of the virus, but the real blame lies elsewhere—with human assaults on the environment.
Sonia Shah
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But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.
Kali Holloway
What can we learn from the novelist’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale ?
Katherine Hill
A new book looks at the history of a century-long movement to create life after death.
Sophie Pinkham
Jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements’s fearless music takes to task the police, American politics, capitalism, and racism.
Marcus J. Moore
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