Vaccination

Biden’s Failure to End Trump’s War on Cuba Is Threatening Lives

Biden’s Failure to End Trump’s War on Cuba Is Threatening Lives Biden’s Failure to End Trump’s War on Cuba Is Threatening Lives

The president promised to return to Obama’s policies of engagement with Cuba, but the embargo and other Trump-era restrictions remain in place.

Jun 29, 2021 / Danny Glover

Vaccines India

Wealthy Countries Have Left the Rest of the World Behind Wealthy Countries Have Left the Rest of the World Behind

Vaccine nationalism bought wealthy countries a return to normalcy, while leaving the Global South with devastating surges.

Jun 22, 2021 / Rajan Menon

DC capitol

Democracy on a Ventilator Democracy on a Ventilator

Two crises, two emergency lockdowns, but only one is called a matter of public health.

Jun 9, 2021 / S. Eudora Smith

COVAX

America Pursues Vaccine Internationalism—but What Kind? America Pursues Vaccine Internationalism—but What Kind?

A foreign policy of global division makes Americans less safe.

Jun 7, 2021 / Stephen Wertheim

Healthcare worker with the covid vaccine

We Can’t Trust Big Pharma to Make Enough Vaccines We Can’t Trust Big Pharma to Make Enough Vaccines

Global vaccine scarcity is not inevitable.

May 31, 2021 / Christopher Morten and Matthew Herder

Sharing the Vaccine Is Just the First Step

Sharing the Vaccine Is Just the First Step Sharing the Vaccine Is Just the First Step

Now we need to make sure poorer countries have the resources and technical capacity to ramp up production.

May 17, 2021 / Gregg Gonsalves for The Nation

bjp rally

‘Where Are the Moderate Hindus?’ ‘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 Fasc...

May 14, 2021 / Sunita Viswanath

Bill and Melinda Gates

Is the Shine Starting to Come Off Bill Gates’s Halo? 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.

May 7, 2021 / Tim Schwab

Frankfurt patent demonstrations

This Is Biden’s Chance to Vaccinate the World This Is Biden’s Chance to Vaccinate the World

Then-candidate Biden told me he wouldn’t let patents block vaccine access. Tomorrow, he must keep his promise.

May 4, 2021 / Ady Barkan

Sputnik vaccine Gaza

The Fight Against Vaccine Apartheid Goes Global The Fight Against Vaccine Apartheid Goes Global

Israel’s refusal to vaccinate Palestinians under occupation has stirred widespread outrage—and linked the struggle for justice in Palestine to struggles around the world.  

Apr 27, 2021 / Yara M. Asi

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