Tag: Coronavirus
Media silent as poll workers contract COVID-19 at primaries that DNC,...
And instead of reporting on this urgent story, the media have enabled this dangerous behavior.
Lessons from the coronavirus can help us overcome the climate crisis
“This is a moment when we can implement measures to help boost the economy, create jobs, and build climate resilience.”
Gilead Sciences asks FDA to rescind ‘orphan’ status for possible coronavirus...
"We are committed to making the medicine both accessible and affordable to governments and patients around the world."
Amid the coronavirus crisis, mutual aid networks erupt across the country
“Human cooperation, solidarity, and communalism is built deep into our DNA, and mutual aid is just what that aspect of humanity looks like in practice.”
Why is the US so exceptionally vulnerable to COVID-19?
This is why the U.S. has so quickly become the center of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Michigan advisory panel members: Halt water shutoffs amid COVID-19 spread
A majority of the members sent her a letter this morning with a plea: Order a statewide moratorium on water shutoffs to protect the public from the fast-spreading COVID-19.
The coronavirus outbreak has shown that capitalism is failing
If there’s ever been a time to radically change our social service policies, this is it.
Our #1 objective must be: Drastically reduce the fear and panic...
Fear begets fear, panic begets panic, but only if we allow it to continue to happen.
‘For common benefit of all,’ Ireland nationalizes hospitals for duration of...
“How wonderful is this. A beautiful silver lining.”
Judgment day for the national security state
The coronavirus and the real threats to American safety and freedom...
POPULAR
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who’s enabling Putin’s enablers?
We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .
Cats are fueling a global eco-crisis, pushing birds and other species to extinction
Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.