Health and Disease

Cuomo’s Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths

Cuomo’s Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths Cuomo’s Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths

Democratic and Republican lawmakers want to know why the state’s Department of Health counts deaths so strangely.

Aug 10, 2020 / Ross Barkan

Inconvenient by Design

Inconvenient by Design Inconvenient by Design

Black Lives Matter Protests continue in New York and around the country.

Aug 10, 2020 / OppArt / Cathleen Campbell

Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19?

Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19? Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19?

Our leaders are as bad as any comic book villain. But even they might be no match for Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth—or Spider-man’s web shooters or Shuri’s brain.

Aug 10, 2020 / Elie Mystal

Love Mask

Love Mask Love Mask

Masks save lives. A part of a multi-panel community mural created by Los Muralistas de El Puente in Domino Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Aug 7, 2020 / OppArt / Juan Carlos Pinto

The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning

The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning

The pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a long-thwarted push for economic justice has players on the march and the NCAA on defense. 

Aug 7, 2020 / Dave Zirin

Portraits of a Pandemic

Portraits of a Pandemic Portraits of a Pandemic

Drawing the nation.

Aug 7, 2020 / Steve Brodner

Stupid Scientific Reality!

Stupid Scientific Reality! Stupid Scientific Reality!

A history of egghead ideas.

Aug 6, 2020 / OppArt / Josh Gosfield

Time for Some #WearADamnMask Politics

Time for Some #WearADamnMask Politics Time for Some #WearADamnMask Politics

The only sane response to Republican insanity is for Democrats to promote an in-your-face—and on-your-face—public health agenda in 2020.

Aug 5, 2020 / John Nichols

As Covid Slams Us, Elders Want Solidarity, Not Sentiment—or Blame

As Covid Slams Us, Elders Want Solidarity, Not Sentiment—or Blame As Covid Slams Us, Elders Want Solidarity, Not Sentiment—or Blame

No generation has a monopoly on justice, or responsibility.

Aug 5, 2020 / Judith Levine

Maryland National Guard

Our Government Is Prioritizing Empire Over Health Our Government Is Prioritizing Empire Over Health

Top Pentagon officials are more preoccupied with maintaining American supremacy than protecting the very bodies that make up the armed services.

Aug 5, 2020 / Andrea Mazzarino

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