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March 27, 2020
If Sanitation Workers Don’t Work, Nothing Works
Meet the men and women risking illness to keep New York’s streets clean.
Ross Barkan
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March 27, 2020
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly With Covid-19
Heroism and selflessness, the terror of loneliness amid quarantine… and Donald Trump’s grotesque and life-threatening narcissism.
Sasha Abramsky
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March 27, 2020
This Pandemic Is Exposing the Futility of the National Security State
Don’t tell the CIA, but the principal threats to our collective well-being are right here where we live.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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March 26, 2020
The Coronavirus Is Trump’s Latest Excuse to Militarize the Border
Leaked documents show Customs and Border Protection requested more than 1,500 extra troops to guard the Canadian and Mexican borders.
Ken Klippenstein
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March 26, 2020
The Crisis in Wuhan ‘Forced Me to Become Political’
As the city prepares to reopen after two months of lockdown, a resident shares why she’ll never see Chinese society the same way again.
Jessie Lau
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March 26, 2020
Thomas Piketty: Confronting Our Long History of Massive Inequality
We talked to the French economist about his new book Capital and Ideology, his thoughts on Covid-19, and more.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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March 25, 2020
The Gaza Strip Has Been Under Siege for Years. Covid-19 Could Be Catastrophic.
Israel, which continues to control Gaza’s borders, has for decades intentionally weakened the economy and health of the world’s largest open-air prison.
Neve Gordon
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March 25, 2020
Around the World, Women Go on Strike to Protest Violence
“The Hell With Patriarchy” Santiago de Chile 2020. Women’s March, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Peter Kuper
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March 25, 2020
Lessons From Wuhan
If we don’t debate a democratic response to pandemics now, we risk ceding leadership to tyrants.
Mike Davis
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March 24, 2020
The 2020 Games Are Postponed, but Should the Olympics Even Happen at All Anymore?
In the best of times, they bring debt, displacement, pollution, and hyper militarization. In the worst, they are a shocking waste of resources in the name of nationalistic fervor.
Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff