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Police officers gathered in Hong Kong during coronavirus pandemic

What’s Next for Asia’s Social Movements? What’s Next for Asia’s Social Movements?

The pandemic gives states an excuse to clamp down on the opposition, but it will also allow protesters to build solidarity with their communities.

May 13, 2020 / Nithin Coca

The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard

The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard

Native students across the country are concerned what this crisis could mean for their universities in the long term.

May 13, 2020 / StudentNation / Mary Retta

Go to Work or Stay Home? An Essential Worker Is Forced to Make a Wager With Fate.

Go to Work or Stay Home? An Essential Worker Is Forced to Make a Wager With Fate. Go to Work or Stay Home? An Essential Worker Is Forced to Make a Wager With Fate.

Scenes from a pandemic: 7

May 13, 2020 / José Orduña

Activist holding

Fight Mass Incarceration Amid the Pandemic Fight Mass Incarceration Amid the Pandemic

Fight for humane conditions in prisons and jails, demand the release of incarcerated people, and support people who have been released.  

May 12, 2020 / NationAction

Interior of The Strand, a book store in New York

The Ingenuity Keeping Indie Bookstores Going The Ingenuity Keeping Indie Bookstores Going

Amazon and the pandemic have left indie bookstores in a bind. They’re reinventing from the inside out.

May 12, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Journalism Cannot Be a Covid-19 Casualty

Journalism Cannot Be a Covid-19 Casualty Journalism Cannot Be a Covid-19 Casualty

Here’s the plan Congress must include in stimulus measures to provide muscular support for journalism.

May 12, 2020 / John Nichols

Life’s a Beach

Life’s a Beach Life’s a Beach

In the Trenches for Covid-19.

May 12, 2020 / OppArt / Ron Hauge

Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity

Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity Columbia Has the Chance to Expose the Lie of Austerity

The seventh-largest property owner in NYC needs to use its wealth to protect its vulnerable workers, not punish them.

May 12, 2020 / R.H. Lossin and Lexie Cook

Between God and Science in the Surreal Silicon Valley of ‘Devs’

Between God and Science in the Surreal Silicon Valley of ‘Devs’ Between God and Science in the Surreal Silicon Valley of ‘Devs’

Alex Garland’s first foray into television is a heady tale of tech world delusion.

May 12, 2020 / Stephen Kearse

Trump and the GOP Are Ignoring Economic Catastrophe

Trump and the GOP Are Ignoring Economic Catastrophe Trump and the GOP Are Ignoring Economic Catastrophe

Instead, the president spent the past week pushing disinformation campaigns and vitriolic attacks against constructive responses to the pandemic.

May 12, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

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