Why coronavirus is killing African-Americans more than others (NYT)
Higher rates of infection and death among minorities demonstrate the racial character of inequality in America.
We...
Wellness influencers are spreading QAnon conspiracies about the coronavirus (Mother Jones)
An unfounded far-right fever dream meets unfounded far-out fever treatments.
Wellness influencers have been having a field...
George Conway: Trump simply doesn’t understand his job (WaPo)
Among Donald Trump’s many flaws as president is one that’s as fundamental as any: He simply doesn’t understand his job. When he...
COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for feminists (Jacobin)
The suffering of women during the coronavirus pandemic illuminates where feminists need to push harder. Medicare for All, free higher education...
Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s inaction has a staggering toll (WaPo)
President Trump suspended payments to the World Health Organization — a move Bill Gates called “as dangerous as it sounds” — in a frantic...
Trump responds to reports about his incompetence by flying into a self-pitying rage at...
He even brought his own hastily made propaganda reel.
Donald Trump’s daily coronavirus task force press briefings stopped...
COVID-19 highlights and intensifies our mistreatment of the poor (The Hill)
The interaction of a raging pandemic and a deep recession are requiring government to take on numerous new tasks. Even more striking,...
Timeline: Coronavirus in America (Rolling Stone)
How the Trump administration failed to protect America, a chronicle of missed opportunities, denials and deception.
In...
No way to beat the spread (Lawyers, Guns & Money)
As the full picture of the economic impacts of the Great Lockdown emerges, there are several sectors that are bracing for the full financial...
The end of American leadership (Slate)
The coronavirus pandemic may mark the final shift of global power away from the United States.
In 1994,...