Tag: Coronavirus
The pandemic is an opportunity for major change—we need to get...
Our opponents try to maximize their profits through shake-ups like this one, pouring time and energy into learning how to use their opportunity. We can also increase our learning curve as rapidly as possible.
Elizabeth Warren urges Treasury and Fed to protect workers and taxpayers...
“You can and must do better for American workers, taxpayers, and the economy.”
“Pure baloney”: Zoologist debunks Trump’s COVID-19 origin theory, explains animal-human transmission
“The idea that this virus escaped from a lab is just pure baloney. These pandemic viruses that emerge originate in wildlife.”
The decade of transformation: Being in balance with nature
The climate crisis requires us to flatten the curve of our greenhouse gas emissions and toxic, polluting society.
How the rich reacted to the bubonic plague has eerie similarities...
In our own pandemic – with some of the most well-off now clamoring for the economy to re-open, despite the ongoing spread of the disease – these issues are strikingly relevant.
Trump’s failed coronavirus response
At every point, Trump has used this crisis to compliment himself. This is not leadership. This is the exact opposite of leadership.
Cuba under media attack for sending doctors, not bombs, to help...
The Cuban approach stands in marked contrast to the modus operandi of the global superpower and Cuba’s primary antagonist, the United States.
‘Terrified to go to work’: Hundreds of workers in meat &...
Meanwhile, deaths of slaughterhouse workers have been reported in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Colorado.
A complete abomination’: Mega-rich hedge funds swoop down to grab COVID-19...
"Without oversight, this is what's happening with the $2 trillion coronavirus bailout: hedge fund managers are claiming relief funds as 'small businesses.'"
Drugs touted by Trump for COVID-19 increase heart risks, studies find
"In a better world, if we weren't so panicked about this virus, we would wait and see if this drug had some value other than the President declaring that it has some value."
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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.
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.
“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.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.