We’re Now Facing Both a Public Health and a Poverty Catastrophe We’re Now Facing Both a Public Health and a Poverty Catastrophe
Trump’s malevolent mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis has been compounded by ineptitude at the state level.
Dec 8, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
Indigenous Cultures Take Root in New York Indigenous Cultures Take Root in New York
The traditional systems of mutual support that undergird many Indigenous Central and North American cultures have formed a safety net during a very dark time in New York City’s his...
Dec 8, 2020 / Photo Essay / Cinthya Santos Briones and Magnum Foundation
Georgia Senate Peach Georgia Senate Peach
Fundraising hell-raising.
Dec 7, 2020 / OppArt / Melinda Beck
Senator Manchin, Your Faith Teaches You Better Than This Senator Manchin, Your Faith Teaches You Better Than This
I am ashamed of this nation. I know you want to do the right thing, and Republicans are tying your hands, but please don’t call this a “centrist plan.”
Dec 4, 2020 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data? Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?
Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem.
Dec 3, 2020 / Feature / Tim Schwab
9 Months Into Touch-Free Living, What Shall We Birth? 9 Months Into Touch-Free Living, What Shall We Birth?
“Thanks Forgiving,” a poem.
Dec 2, 2020 / Verandah Porche
This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order
In Cedar Point Nursery, conservatives are invoking a Jim Crow version of property rights.
Dec 2, 2020 / Nathan Newman
How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System
Corporate consolidation has left the US with a health care system built for profit, not people.
Dec 2, 2020 / Feature / Susie Cagle
These Visa Recipients Are Stuck in the US And Demanding Their Rights These Visa Recipients Are Stuck in the US And Demanding Their Rights
J-1 recipients say the visa program is as an unregulated pipeline for temporary migrant labor that props up the US hospitality industry.
Dec 1, 2020 / Noah Flora
Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency
In the last decade, more than a dozen hospitals have closed in the region.
Dec 1, 2020 / Photo Essay / Stacy Kranitz and Magnum Foundation