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Bilgewater on back order. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of December 7.
Dec 11, 2020 / The Greater Quiet / Steve Brodner
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 / Signal:Noise / Sasha Abramsky
So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine? So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine?
And why do I still have to wear a mask?
Dec 10, 2020 / Gregg Gonsalves
What I Learned Moving Cross-Country Twice in 4 Months What I Learned Moving Cross-Country Twice in 4 Months
Global catastrophe has a way of putting life into perspective.
Dec 9, 2020 / Something Is Happening Here / Jamilah King
We Can’t Message Our Way Out of a Public Health Crisis We Can’t Message Our Way Out of a Public Health Crisis
As the coronavirus has spread, public officials have spent a lot of time urging people to wear a mask and socially distance, when they can’t stay home—and offered not much else.
Dec 9, 2020 / Abdullah Shihipar
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 / Signal:Noise / Sasha Abramsky
The Baltimore Ravens’ Cautionary Covid Tale The Baltimore Ravens’ Cautionary Covid Tale
With two dozen players on the NFL’s Covid list, the Ravens are a pitch-perfect example of how not to do sports during a pandemic.
Dec 3, 2020 / Dave Zirin
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 / Something Is Happening Here / Verandah Porche
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