The Most Vital Transition Is Ours The Most Vital Transition Is Ours
Reading revives historical memory in the flat Zoom time of pandemic.
Dec 16, 2020 / Peter Linebaugh
Mutual Aid Can’t Do It Alone Mutual Aid Can’t Do It Alone
As the pandemic plunged millions into economic insecurity, the burgeoning practice of mutual aid has been vital. But we must demand much more.
Dec 16, 2020 / Feature / Joanna Wuest
Time for Optimism, or More Despair? We Still Don’t Know. Time for Optimism, or More Despair? We Still Don’t Know.
The Electoral College certifies Biden’s win, Covid vaccines roll out—but damage is still being done.
Dec 14, 2020 / Joan Walsh
Ron Johnson Brings Fringe Science to the US Senate Ron Johnson Brings Fringe Science to the US Senate
At a Senate committee hearing on Covid-19, the Wisconsin senator favored the voices of quacks over those of his constituents.
Dec 14, 2020 / Sarah Godlewski
What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic? What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic?
One Health is a pan-species approach that could ward off the next big outbreak. But first, it has to overcome the anti-science ethos of the Trump era.
Dec 14, 2020 / Feature / Jimmy Tobias
Trumpists Are Ranting About Election Fraud as Americans Die of Covid Trumpists Are Ranting About Election Fraud as Americans Die of Covid
This during the deadliest week so far in the pandemic, with infection rates at upwards of 220,000 per day.
Dec 11, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine? So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine?
And why do I still have to wear a mask?
Dec 10, 2020 / Gregg Gonsalves
Take What You Need and Give What You Can: A Mutual Aid Portrait Take What You Need and Give What You Can: A Mutual Aid Portrait
Residents of Morris County, N.J., aren’t waiting for federal relief—they’re helping each other.
Dec 10, 2020 / Photo Essay / John Washington and Tracie Williams
What I Learned Moving Cross-Country Twice in 4 Months What I Learned Moving Cross-Country Twice in 4 Months
Global catastrophe has a way of putting life into perspective.
Dec 9, 2020 / Jamilah King
We Can’t Message Our Way Out of a Public Health Crisis We Can’t Message Our Way Out of a Public Health Crisis
As the coronavirus has spread, public officials have spent a lot of time urging people to wear a mask and socially distance, when they can’t stay home—and offered not much else.
Dec 9, 2020 / Abdullah Shihipar