The Coronavirus Makes a Powerful Case for Boosting Our Social Safety Net The Coronavirus Makes a Powerful Case for Boosting Our Social Safety Net
A global pandemic coinciding with a presidential campaign is the time to make the case for boosting the closest thing America has to an immune system: our social safety net.
Mar 17, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Take Action Now: Protect Each Other During the Pandemic Take Action Now: Protect Each Other During the Pandemic
Support low-income, incarcerated, homeless, and undocumented people confronting the harshest effects of the crisis.
Mar 17, 2020 / NationAction
The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility
Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.
Mar 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
Bill Gates Gives to the Rich (Including Himself) Bill Gates Gives to the Rich (Including Himself)
His renowned charitable activities seem to serve mainly private interests, namely his own.
Mar 17, 2020 / Feature / Tim Schwab
With the Coronavirus, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air With the Coronavirus, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
We’re seeing the steady erosion of everything familiar, the implosion of communal space, the sense that everyone, every surface, could be the enemy.
Mar 17, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
The Free Market Will Save Us From the Coronavirus! The Free Market Will Save Us From the Coronavirus!
The invisible hand is in control of this pandemic.
Mar 17, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
Sunday Night’s Debate Failed the Coronavirus Test Sunday Night’s Debate Failed the Coronavirus Test
Biden and Sanders should have stolen a page from Andrew Yang and promised to give money to hard-hit Americans.
Mar 16, 2020 / John Nichols
‘We Have No Nurses and No Isolation Room’ ‘We Have No Nurses and No Isolation Room’
Why teachers, principals, and politicians pushed New York’s mayor to shut down the country’s largest school system.
Mar 15, 2020 / Ross Barkan
Billionaire NBA Owners Have an Obligation to Help Suffering Arena Workers—Now Billionaire NBA Owners Have an Obligation to Help Suffering Arena Workers—Now
It’s unconscionable that half the teams are still dragging their feet.
Mar 15, 2020 / Dave Zirin
Free Tests, Free Vaccines: Remove the Wealth Barriers to Fighting COVID-19 Free Tests, Free Vaccines: Remove the Wealth Barriers to Fighting COVID-19
We can’t address a pandemic without eliminating economic hurdles to public health.
Mar 13, 2020 / John Nichols