Monday, August 18, 2025

Tag: pandemic

The Pandemic is us (but now mostly them)

Power, wealth, and justice in the time of COVID-19.

Inequalities are shaping how we’re fighting the pandemic — and how...

Covid-19 infections in most countries have been hugely underestimated — not least because rich countries bought almost all the tests.

Twilight of the pandemic?

Bracing for a surge of Trumpism or…

What comes after this plastic-filled pandemic?

A new generation of medical professionals is tasked with undoing decades of hospitals’ easy reliance on single-use plastic.

How corporations pumped up CEO pay while their low-wage workers suffered...

More than half of the country’s 100 largest low-wage employers rigged pay rules in 2020 to give CEOs 29 percent average raises while their frontline employees made 2 percent less.

What America can learn from China—Lessons from the pandemic

While the China model cannot be transplanted to the West, there’s a lot that America can learn from China.

A third of U.S. billionaire wealth gains since 1990 have come...

U.S. billionaire pandemic profit balloons to $4.56 trillion, a 55 percent increase.

Making sense of a viral military

A military spouse’s perspective on the Pentagon’s flawed response to the pandemic.

As rich countries shield pharma monopolies, just 0.2% of COVID vaccine...

"The problem is not getting vaccines out of COVAX; the problem is getting them in."

How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending...

For decades, Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system, in part because of the six-decade-old U.S. embargo.

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US-Russia talks: The choice between peace and Escalation 

As negotiations progress, U.S. officials must be honest about the U.S. role in provoking this crisis.

A presidential wrecking ball

Trump is spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King Jr.

Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark...

Voters in Montana will have the opportunity this fall to ban corporate political spending and dark money in federal, state and local...

DC sues Trump administration over attempted takeover of city police

District leaders warn of unprecedented assault on home rule as lawsuit seeks to block federal seizure of MPD.

ICE: The making of an American Gestapo

The depth and breadth of outrage against the brutal treatment of migrant and refugee families by ICE has even extended into the agency itself.