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May 20, 2021
The Fall of the House of Gates?
Fully reckoning with Bill Gates means not just focusing on how he treats women—vital as that is—but also confronting our own deep-seated worship of wealth and hardwired belief in hero narratives.
Tim Schwab
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May 19, 2021
‘I Don’t Want to Die Here’
For Louisiana’s incarcerated children, their families, and their friends, Covid-19 is one more survival test, one more demand on resilience.
Gina Womack
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May 17, 2021
How Teachers Fought for Their Safety in the Pandemic—and Won
As the debate over in-person schooling roiled, teachers’ unions secured significant protections—often with parents’ support.
Bryce Covert
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May 17, 2021
How Profiteers Hijacked the CDC’s Covid Response
Mass death was turned into a business opportunity.
Nina Burleigh
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May 14, 2021
Return to the Joys of Full-Time Office Work? No, Thanks.
CEOs are touting the benefits of office “culture” as a reason to return to our cubicles. But that culture has often meant harassment, discrimination, and painful water-cooler conversations.
Elie Mystal
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May 14, 2021
‘Where Are the Moderate Hindus?’
India is reeling from two deadly viruses: Covid-19 and Hindutva—a century-old far-right political ideology whose founders were directly inspired by Hitler’s Nazism and Italian Fascism.
Sunita Viswanath
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May 12, 2021
‘Sometimes I Miss the Lockdown’
On silence, solidarity and a feeling, a year later, of life on thin ice in the city.
Thomas McKean
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May 11, 2021
Parking Lot Crematoria Burn Through the Night as Covid-19 Overwhelms Delhi
Rage at Modi builds amid catastrophic government failure.
Fahad Shah
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May 7, 2021
Ro Khanna: It’s Vital That the US Drop Barriers to Vaccine Production and Aid Covid-Ravaged India
“We aren’t an island. I mean, the disease is going to continue to come back to us,” said the representative from California.
John Nichols
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May 7, 2021
Is the Shine Starting to Come Off Bill Gates’s Halo?
The billionaire’s role in perpetuating vaccine apartheid in the name of protecting intellectual property rights has begun to draw criticism.
Tim Schwab