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What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic?

What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic? What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic?

One Health is a pan-species approach that could ward off the next big outbreak. But first, it has to overcome the anti-science ethos of the Trump era.

Dec 14, 2020 / Feature / Jimmy Tobias

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike Lightning Strike

A movement called the Women’s Strike has been drawing hundreds of thousands of people to protest drastic abortion restrictions in Poland in recent months.

Dec 14, 2020 / OppArt / Various Contributors

How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?

How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System? How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?

Sara Mayeux’s new history highlights how without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness befo...

Dec 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Clair

This Is Not a President

This Is Not a President This Is Not a President

This is the loser.

Dec 12, 2020 / OppArt / Edel Rodriguez

Is It Really Terry McAuliffe’s Turn in Virginia—Again?

Is It Really Terry McAuliffe’s Turn in Virginia—Again? Is It Really Terry McAuliffe’s Turn in Virginia—Again?

Two Black women were already in the governor’s race, but McAuliffe wagers that his experience, fundraising prowess, and ties to the state’s older Black leaders can propel him past ...

Dec 11, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Hinch-22

Hinch-22 Hinch-22

Bilgewater on back order. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of December 7.

Dec 11, 2020 / Steve Brodner

Sea of Plastic

Sea of Plastic Sea of Plastic

The deep impact of the climate crisis.

Dec 11, 2020 / OppArt / Gio

Trumpists Are Ranting About Election Fraud as Americans Die of Covid

Trumpists Are Ranting About Election Fraud as Americans Die of Covid Trumpists Are Ranting About Election Fraud as Americans Die of Covid

This during the deadliest week so far in the pandemic, with infection rates at upwards of 220,000 per day.

Dec 11, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

Fighting From Federal Death Row in the Memory of My Friends

Fighting From Federal Death Row in the Memory of My Friends Fighting From Federal Death Row in the Memory of My Friends

“These are the names of the humans on federal death row and the dates that the Trump administration intends to kill them before leaving office.”

Dec 11, 2020 / Billie Allen

The Pandemic Didn’t Have to Be This Bad

The Pandemic Didn’t Have to Be This Bad The Pandemic Didn’t Have to Be This Bad

The decades of disinvestment in our public health infrastructure has now cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

Dec 11, 2020 / Podcast / Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian T. Warren

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