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  Wolff: COVID-19 Exposes Weakness of Major Theory Used to Justify Capitalism

  A positive outcome of the coronavirus disaster would be a wider appreciation that liberating ourselves from capitalism requires rejecting its self-justifying ideology of efficiency.
• Abramson: #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives Wants Racial Justice In The Medical Field

  The healthcare industry has a long and well-documented history of racist treatment of Black and Indigenous people. Now, doctors join the movement for Black lives
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  Davis: Anthony Fauci: The Last American Hero?

  “America’s Doctor has accomplished great things in the past, but his hubris now makes him an accomplice of a dangerous and criminal regime
• AP: New ICE Guidelines Say International Students Must Leave U.S. If Classes Go Online

  “It’s going to cause enormous confusion and uncertainty,. ICE is clearly creating an incentive for institutions to reopen, regardless of whether or not the circumstances of the pandemic warrant it.”
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  Kolhatkar: The Merits of Medicare for All Have Been Proven by This Pandemic

  The horror of the coronavirus pandemic proves that progressives have been justified in demanding a single-payer health care system
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  Gupta: On Coronavirus and the Anti-Police-Brutality Uprising

  An investigative reporter, Arun Gupta has been consistently ahead of...
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  Rasmus: Why 3rd Quarter US Economic ‘Rebound’ Will Falter

  The US is currently experiencing what might be called a ‘triple crisis’. A health crisis that shows little sign of abating. A deep economic crisis that is still in its early phases. And a ripening political crisis
• Purkayastha: The World Can Show How Pharma Monopolies Aren’t the Only Way to Fight COVID-19

  After his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead’s stock of remdesivir
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  Cole: Coal and Covid

  Trump Facilitates both in a backward US as Europe makes strides against Both
• Johnson: Sanders Calls on ‘Do-Nothing’ Senate

  Approve $2,000 Monthly Checks, Cancel Rent, and Expand Medicare
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  Baker: Unemployment Benefits Should Depend on the Pandemic

  The basic point here is a simple one. If the pandemic is out of control, we should be encouraging people to stay home, not to return to work
• The Associated Press and Hannah Recht and Anna Maria Barry-Jester: Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus

  The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century
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  Jackson: Mandatory College Football Practices at Time of Pandemic are Nuts

  In this time of Black Lives Matter protests, the lives of these young athletes — Black, white, brown and yellow, male and female, must matter
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  Feffer: In the U.S., the Second Wave Is Already Here

  While Europe and Asia track down three-digit infection spikes at worst, the U.S. is dealing with over 40,000 a day
• Ochenski: Trump’s Contagion Road Show Heads West

  The last thing any thinking person would do when faced with this crisis is take steps to make it worse. Yet, that’s just what’s happening as Trump seeks to halt federal funds for testing when the medical professionals are advising just the opposite
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  Pitt: As COVID Burns Through the South and West, Trump Fans the Flames

  Donald Trump would step on the dead faces of his own supporters in the street if he believed doing so would carry him closer to victory in November
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  Nader: Trump and Pence – Step Aside for Professional Pandemic Scientists and Managers

  Major changes in society can be accomplished by a fast-emerging, broad-based civic jolt so obvious and persuasive that it overwhelms the entrenched powers
• Gross: Obamacare Vulnerable

  Trump and his allies have spat in the face of all those who have signed up for Obamacare and those who are considering applying for it merely four months before voters go to the polls
• Jewett: Health Workers Filed Over 4,000 Complaints With OSHA, Some Still Died

  Federal officials rapidly closed many complaints without issuing citations, raising new questions over government inaction
• Hartmann: COVID Masks: The Latest Faux Conservative Outrage

  They don’t care about you; they just want the economy opened back up to make money