50,000 Americans dead, and a President who refuses to mourn them (The New Yorker)
In just the past few days, President Trump has blamed immigrants, China, the “fake news” and, of course, “the invisible enemy” of the coronavirus for America’s...
Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s two months of magical thinking (Vanity Afair)
Obsessed with impeachment and their enemies and worried about the stock market, the president and his son-in-law scapegoated HHS Secretary Alex...
Will summer kill coronavirus? Cities fear heat waves will quickly become deadly (WaPo)
NEW YORK — The windowless corridor on a 20th floor in the Mott Haven Houses — a cluster of public-housing towers in...
No testing, no treatment, no herd immunity, no easy way out (Atlantic)
We need to start preparing for a darker reality.
The past few months have been bleak. Every day...
Chicago nurse told friend she was ‘scared to death.’ Within weeks, she and her...
Josephine Tapiru had been pulling extra shifts, working from 9 a.m. until sometimes 11 p.m., because the North Side nursing home was...
Former Labradoodle breeder was tapped to lead U.S. pandemic task force (Reuters)
On January 21, the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human...
Love in the time of COVID-19 (KevinMD)
COVID-19 changes everything — even, or especially, love. It demands that we love differently and in new ways. For me, this is...
CUNY’s Stone Center on pandemic’s impact on inequality
In a medical sense, Covid-19, as highly contagious as it is, can be thought of as the great leveler. No one has...
‘It’s horrible’: How the U.S. deep south’s prisons exacerbate the pandemic (Guardian)
In prisons and jails across the deep south, coronavirus threatens to overwhelm chronically underfunded, understaffed and overpopulated facilities.
I voted in South Korea’s elections. This is what democracy can look like in...
It involved a lot of hand sanitizer, masks, and disposable gloves.
SEONGNAM, South Korea — On April...
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