Tag: COVID-19

Hard to take him seriously when he and his team stand shoulder to shoulder and the press crowds in.

Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.

The media has helped spread panic more often than useful information.

Many of the serious dangers that we face today can be addressed by reforming our economic systems.

Robert Pollin, distinguished university professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says the lack of universal healthcare in the U.S. is exacerbating the coronavirus crisis due to “the absurdity that people cannot feel confident that they are going to get medical treatment” when they need it most.