Omicron and Inequality

Omicron and Inequality

Gregg Gonsalves on the new variant, plus Gary Younge on Josephine Baker.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
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The new Omicron variant of Covid-19: Gregg Gonsalves argues that it serves as a reminder of how little we’re doing on pandemic prevention. We need government action to address the inequalities in power, resources, and information that leave some people at far greater risk. Meanwhile, Republicans are describing Omicron as a Democratic plot to bring back mail-in voting.

Also: being Black in America, and being Black in France: Gary Younge talks about Josephine Baker, the Black American dancer who went to Paris in the 1920s and later renounced her US citizenship. She’s being interred at the Pantheon, alongside Voltaire and Rousseau, this week.

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Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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