Tag: Coronavirus
Earth is shaking a lot less now that everyone is staying...
The reduction in seismic activity, like reduction in air pollution, also show that people are adhering to social distancing guidelines from governments around the world.
Corporate media ignore international cooperation as shortcut to coronavirus vaccine
"Imagine how much faster the research would advance if these researchers were working in collaboration, sharing their results with each other..."
Health insurance companies could skyrocket premiums
The U.S. health care system is ill-equipped when it comes to a pandemic and citizens will be the ones to suffer.
Rightwing populism in a time of crisis
When the smoke clears, let’s hope the scales fall from the eyes of their supporters and the only recently growing phenomenon of rightwing, anti-science populism is consigned to the dustbin of history, where it belongs.
A simple, low-cost way to reduce spread of coronavirus
Research shows face masks are highly effective—but there aren't enough even for health care workers.
What we need to understand about asymptomatic carriers if we’re going...
ProPublica’s health reporter Caroline Chen explains what the conversation around asymptomatic coronavirus carriers is missing, and what we need to understand if we’re going to beat this nefarious virus together.
Avenger planet
Is the COVID-19 pandemic mother nature’s response to human transgression?
Could COVID-19 reshape global leadership?
The crisis the world will face over the next six months or a year is one that cries out for competent leadership.
Gun makers and sellers on list of ‘essential businesses’ amid coronavirus...
"Gun retailers are not essential businesses and should not remain open during this pandemic."
Keystone XL Pipeline construction to forge ahead during coronavirus pandemic
"He may want voters to believe that boom times are just around the corner, but even before COVID-19, global investors and central bankers were warning that the smart money is moving out of fossil fuels."
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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.
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.