Latest Health

• Collective: COVID-19 pandemic: A Crisis of Care

  A look at how care work should be different
• Astore: Having It Easy in the Beginning, Tough in the End

  How My Dad Predicted the Decline of America
• Capaccio: The Virus of Sanctions: Flattening the Curve

  If ever there were an opportunity for people to recognize each other's humanity and cast aside their mutual fears and antagonisms, now is that opportunity when everyone is facing the same life-threatening disease
• Aguilar Gil: Jëën pä’äm, the illness of fire

  If the propagation of the virus shows us the insides of the interrelated structures in which we live, it also shows that only collective care that can stop the pandemic
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  Singh: G20 Leaders’ Commitments Fall Far Short of Expectations

  The first-ever extraordinary virtual G20 Leaders’ Summit took place on March 26, 2020 to develop collective global solutions in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
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  Glick: Demonstrating During Pandemic Times

  “Car demonstrations” had people arriving in cars to an open parking lot area, standing outside at appropriate 6 feet or more apart distances, with organizers giving directions and instructions and coordinates to join a Whats App channel for communication purposes
• Mackey: In Exchange for Aid, Trump Wants Praise From Governors for Campaign Ads

  “What would you think if, when your governor asked the federal government for the disaster assistance that Congress has provided, the President responded, ‘I would like you to do us a favor.’ I’ll... send the disaster relief once you brand my opponent a criminal.”
• Hanieh: This is a global pandemic – Let’s treat it as such

  As with all so-called ‘humanitarian’ crises, it is essential to remember that the social conditions found across most of the countries of the South are the direct product of how these states are inserted into the hierarchies of the world market
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  Monbiot: Covid-19 is nature’s wake-up call to complacent civilization

  From now on, we should expose our minds to the painful realities we have denied for too long
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  Cohn: DOJ Seeks to Exploit Coronavirus Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely

  Throughout U.S. history, presidents have exploited national emergencies to exceed their constitutional powers
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  Podur: When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous

  Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly
• Davies: Why is the U.S. so exceptionally vulnerable to Covid-19?

  Will we finally wake up from our American dream, open our eyes and start learning from our neighbors in other countries, including ones that have different political, economic and healthcare systems than ours?
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  Rasmus: A Reflection on Trump the War President

  Trump is a ‘true believer’ that the market solves everything and immediately. Just wave the magic market wand and it will appear
• Wallace: The End of the Parasite Paradigm

  The gross incompetence of our leaders may be their undoing. Their greed is unsustainable at this point
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  Cole: No Mercy even in a Pandemic

  Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet
• Dos Santos: Tales of Resistance: Love in Times of Coronavirus

  We know we won’t starve to death, because solidarity is alive and well in every corner of the country
• Walker: We Must Expand Tricare for Everybody Who Needs It

  We need a solution that can be used even faster than any industry bailout or targeted reinsurance program that has the government take on the insurers’ cost for covering Covid-19 patients
• Higgins: ‘For Common Benefit of All’

  Ireland Nationalizes Hospitals for Duration of Coronavirus Crisis, Sparking Demand for US to Follow Suit
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  Bennis: To Fight This Pandemic, We Need to Take Over the Military’s Resources

  —Not the Other Way Around
• Barber II: Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Moral Response to COVID-19

  We call on you to fulfill your moral and Constitutional responsibilities: expand the COVID-19 emergency provisions to care for us all and enact our Moral Agenda immediately