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
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
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
Here’s the plan Congress must include in stimulus measures to provide muscular support for journalism.
May 12, 2020 / John Nichols
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
Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse
As a teacher, I wonder about the students I’ve been unable to reach and whose faces I never see online.
May 12, 2020 / Belle Chesler
The Media Is ‘Both-Sides’-ing the Coronavirus Disaster The Media Is ‘Both-Sides’-ing the Coronavirus Disaster
Should we ask a coronavirus particle how to get rid of it?
May 12, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive
Direct action and inclusivity are driving the new Asian American movement.
May 11, 2020 / Promise Li and Esther K
The New Cold War in Asia Is Born of Desperation The New Cold War in Asia Is Born of Desperation
Bipartisan China-bashing is how the US political elite avoids dealing with our immense domestic problems.
May 11, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus
If reporting doesn’t improve, the creativity and agency of swaths of humanity will be lost to history.
May 11, 2020 / Nanjala Nyabola