The Coronavirus Makes a Powerful Case for Boosting Our Social Safety Net The Coronavirus Makes a Powerful Case for Boosting Our Social Safety Net
A global pandemic coinciding with a presidential campaign is the time to make the case for boosting the closest thing America has to an immune system: our social safety net.
Mar 17, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Take Action Now: Protect Each Other During the Pandemic Take Action Now: Protect Each Other During the Pandemic
Support low-income, incarcerated, homeless, and undocumented people confronting the harshest effects of the crisis.
Mar 17, 2020 / NationAction
Bernie’s Sweater Bernie’s Sweater
Knitting progress. “Bernie 2020” “Health care is a human right.” “Medicare for All.” “While the rest can’t fathom why Bernie cares if we live or die.”
Mar 17, 2020 / OppArt / Karen Schumacher
How to Canvass During a Pandemic How to Canvass During a Pandemic
Progressive insurgents are reimagining their campaigns thanks to the coronavirus.
Mar 17, 2020 / Ross Barkan
With the Coronavirus, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air With the Coronavirus, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
We’re seeing the steady erosion of everything familiar, the implosion of communal space, the sense that everyone, every surface, could be the enemy.
Mar 17, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
The Free Market Will Save Us From the Coronavirus! The Free Market Will Save Us From the Coronavirus!
The invisible hand is in control of this pandemic.
Mar 17, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
Campuses Across the Country Are Closing—These Are the Students Impacted Campuses Across the Country Are Closing—These Are the Students Impacted
As campuses close to prevent the spread of coronavirus, many students are getting left behind.
Mar 16, 2020 / StudentNation / StudentNation
‘We Have No Nurses and No Isolation Room’ ‘We Have No Nurses and No Isolation Room’
Why teachers, principals, and politicians pushed New York’s mayor to shut down the country’s largest school system.
Mar 15, 2020 / Ross Barkan
Prayer Will Not Stop the Coronavirus Prayer Will Not Stop the Coronavirus
The pandemic lays bare how American politicians have ignored the past and its injustices. It’s time for repentance, not just prayer.
Mar 15, 2020 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Republican Xenophobia Is Going to Make the Pandemic Much Worse Republican Xenophobia Is Going to Make the Pandemic Much Worse
Trump is ramping up hatred of foreigners during a crisis that requires international cooperation.
Mar 13, 2020 / Jeet Heer