Covid at 1 Year and Counting: The American Book of the Dead Covid at 1 Year and Counting: The American Book of the Dead
Beware the light at the end of the tunnel…
Mar 4, 2021 / Editorial / Mike Davis for The Nation
Trump Made His ‘American Carnage’ Fever Dream True Trump Made His ‘American Carnage’ Fever Dream True
In the US, 500,000 people are dead, but the toll is higher and Covid is but one measure of public health.
Mar 3, 2021 / Something Is Happening Here / Matt Nelson
The US Reaches 500,000 Deaths From the Coronavirus The US Reaches 500,000 Deaths From the Coronavirus
The pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color.
Mar 2, 2021 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
The Military Can’t Get Troops to Take the Covid Vaccine. Come Again? The Military Can’t Get Troops to Take the Covid Vaccine. Come Again?
Service members aren’t getting the vaccine. That’s a problem, and it’s more complicated than you’d expect.
Mar 1, 2021 / Andrew McCormick
Reckoning With a Year of Shared Isolation, Pandemic, and Protest Reckoning With a Year of Shared Isolation, Pandemic, and Protest
The pandemic has energized collective action on both the left and right.
Feb 26, 2021 / Jeet Heer
Why Xavier Becerra Is a Smart Pick to Run HHS Why Xavier Becerra Is a Smart Pick to Run HHS
As California’s attorney general, he fought to strengthen his state’s social safety net—which we must do nationally if we are to improve public health and lick the coronavirus.
Feb 26, 2021 / Left Coast / Sasha Abramsky
Finding Community Through Our Dogs in the Darkest Days of the Pandemic Finding Community Through Our Dogs in the Darkest Days of the Pandemic
A dog story, in which humans paw their way from isolation to something like community.
Feb 24, 2021 / Something Is Happening Here / Angela Ards
Here’s What Leaders Facing Global Crises Can Learn From Mikhail Gorbachev Here’s What Leaders Facing Global Crises Can Learn From Mikhail Gorbachev
His radical stances on security are needed as much now as when he was in power.
Feb 23, 2021 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Letters From the March 8/15, 2021, Issue Letters From the March 8/15, 2021, Issue
The meaning of masks… Post officers?… Rightward tilt… The days ahead… Voters strike back…
Feb 23, 2021 / Letters / Our Readers