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Bilgewater on back order. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of December 7.

Dec 11, 2020 / Steve Brodner

Trumpists Are Ranting About Election Fraud as Americans Die of Covid

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

A nurse wearing a surgical mask and face shield holds a vial of the Covid-19 vaccine

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

Author standing in front of mountains.

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 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

A woman with her children wearing masks, reaches out to pick up a bag of groceries.

We’re Now Facing Both a Public Health and a Poverty Catastrophe We’re Now Facing Both a Public Health and a Poverty Catastrophe

Trump’s malevolent mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis has been compounded by ineptitude at the state level.

Dec 8, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

The Baltimore Ravens’ Cautionary Covid Tale

The Baltimore Ravens’ Cautionary Covid Tale The Baltimore Ravens’ Cautionary Covid Tale

With two dozen players on the NFL’s Covid list, the Ravens are a pitch-perfect example of how not to do sports during a pandemic.

Dec 3, 2020 / Dave Zirin

Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?

Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data? Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?

Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem.

Dec 3, 2020 / Feature / Tim Schwab

Three portraits

9 Months Into Touch-Free Living, What Shall We Birth? 9 Months Into Touch-Free Living, What Shall We Birth?

“Thanks Forgiving,” a poem.

Dec 2, 2020 / Verandah Porche

How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System

How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System

Corporate consolidation has left the US with a health care system built for profit, not people.

Dec 2, 2020 / Feature / Susie Cagle

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