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Alongside Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Chile currently lead South America in total Covid deaths per capita. Unlike Brazil, however, the other pro-US regimes have largely been given a pass.
Does it make sense to describe the alleged actions of Russian and Chinese hackers as a form of “theft”? If so, what kind of “theft” is it?
“Allowing homelessness and housing poverty to exist in our country has always been a public policy choice, and we can instead choose to end it.”
It’s not easy being a journalist covering the pandemic. Scientific knowledge on the virus moves quickly, and experts don’t always agree. But that makes it all the more important to tread carefully and not spread alarmist kaka.
Resisting the reopening of schools on the basis that the White House press secretary misspoke represents a lost opportunity to actually oppose the administration’s scandalously poor handling of the coronavirus.
“We keep hearing, of course, from the private insurance companies and from the pharmaceutical companies and from politicians, principally on the right, that we really can’t afford Medicare for All. This is nonsense. We can afford it.”
We’re looking at 20 to 28 million people facing eviction between now and September. Making folks homeless in a pandemic is just a flashpoint of this country’s affordable housing crisis.
A New York Times article plays up political distinctions to paint epidemiologists and other health experts as hypocritical, feeding the media narrative that they were “politicizing science.”
A conversation that excludes sheriffs from talk of police abolition and/or reform is missing a critical element.
While the question of how quickly to reopen will affect potentially millions of lives, equally important is asking what science can tell us about how to reopen.
“While we have been acting like we’ve done a good enough job on the coronavirus, and now can get back to what we were doing before, other countries have really taken seriously the fact that they have this deadly pandemic going on.”
Covid-related arrears put nearly a quarter of all US households at risk of eviction or foreclosure, according to one estimate (Washington Post, 5/31/20). The poor and people of color are the hardest hit, not just by the novel coronavirus but also by the economic fallout: More than half of lower-income adults say they or someone […]
Trump’s bizarre delusions on Covid-19 aren’t just bats in his attic; they’ve driven a response that is nothing short of disastrous.
A New York Times reporter tries to explain why Swedes are no longer allowed to visit other Scandinavian countries in a way that minimizes having to acknowledge how much he sold deadly snake oil to Times readers.
Election Focus 2020: Trump’s rally remarks were a remarkably brazen admission that he would rather cover up the growing pandemic than actually work to address it, at the cost of an untold number of lives.
Perhaps the most persistent false narrative of Chinese deception and concealment has nothing to do with fake statistics or Chinese manipulation of the WHO, but with China allegedly withholding details from the world and silencing whistleblowers.
“Guess what won’t instill consumer confidence? A law that immunizes businesses if they don’t do what’s right to keep people safe. Why, in Heaven’s name, would I decide to go back to restaurants and movie theaters if they have no incentive to do the right thing to keep me safe?”
Overpolicing and violent policing have much to do with the so-called war on drugs, which serves as a pretext for the harassment of individuals and entire communities of black and brown people.
If we’ve been listening to what epidemiologists have told us about the coronavirus, there are reasons to believe that the protests will not have a major impact on the pandemic’s trajectory.
The problem with much of the reporting focusing on rich, developed countries where media have foreign correspondents is that it ignores often superior responses to the virus from much of the Global South, countries that have nothing like the resources of advanced Western states.
