Tag: Coronavirus
‘Stealth attack on social security’: Trump condemned for exploiting coronavirus crisis...
“This is a Trojan Horse attack on our Social Security system.”
Coronavirus pandemic in US fueled by stunted CDC budget & lack...
We are joined by two epidemiologists to examine the response so far around the world and in the United States.
The coronavirus is a wake-up call for climate change
Perhaps the COVID-19 outbreak is the wake-up call the world needs to get people accustomed to the fact that because of climate change, we all now need to change our lifestyles to protect our lives.
With the looming coronavirus pandemic about to hit the US, it’s...
Since this is a national crisis, we need to make sure everyone who contracts this disease can get timely treatment.
Will the coronavirus kill globalization?
The Spanish flu helped herald the collapse of the first wave of modern globalization. A century later, could the coronavirus do the same?
The US is not prepared for coronavirus; we need to take...
The fate of COVID-19 in the United States is in our hands
How the climate crisis is making the spread of infectious diseases...
With the destruction of natural animal habitats and the changes in migration bringing humans and animals into ever-closer contact and making new pathogens more likely.
America’s Coronavirus: containing the outbreak of Trumpism
The banality of President Trump’s evil has infected huge swaths of the electorate as well as the federal government. Can it be treated?
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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.
Truly remaking Social Security is the key to having a livable society in the...
What does a social democratic political program really mean?
In the crosshairs: The perilous reality for journalists in 2023
Examining the heightened risks faced by journalists in conflict zones, especially in the Gaza Strip, amidst global political tensions and criticism of U.S. foreign policy.
Why so many nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles?
Apocalypse will be highly likely. Artificial intelligence is not going to save us. These weapons need to be outlawed, not produced and purchased en masse.
Across Africa, water conflict threatens security, health, and the environment
The scarcity-led conflict and crisis.