Latest Health

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  Thomas Whitfield: All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety

  On parents’ impossible decision
• Madeloni: New York City Teachers Work Outdoors after a Co-Worker Tests Positive

  When New York City educators were supposed to be in their third day of “professional development” held inside school buildings, teachers and other staffers at a Queens middle school, IS 230, took their work outside.
• Ludwig: Millions of Children Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill

  Please Help ZNet Source: Truthout Millions of children across the...
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  Brecher: Workers vs. the Coronavirus Depression

  This summer has seen two significant national strike actions–for Black Lives and for safe reopening of schools. These are hardly conventional strikes–indeed, they represent historically unprecedented forms of protest
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  Pitt: Another Day of COVID, Another Failed Stimulus, Another Thousand Deaths

  With an election looming just 47 tiny days away, fury at vicious Republican intransigence has begun to give way to something close to horrified awe
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  Jackson: Myths and Lies About Poverty in America

  The recent decision to block action on a second rescue package is a decision to increase the number of Americans in poverty, the number of children who go hungry
• Kramer: Medicating Isolation

  Drug Use in the Covid-19 Moment
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  Prashad: The Difference Between the U.S. and China’s Response to COVID-19 Is Staggering

  The Chinese government remains vigilant and is willing to sacrifice short-term economic growth to save the lives of its citizenry
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  Chomsky: Confluence of Crises

  Interview on a variety of topics
• Anonymous: Universities are being forced to lie about being COVID safe

  Universities know they will become infection hot-spots. But shutting before the government tells them to will leave them bankrupt
• Lawson: We Must Take The Vaccine Industry Into Public Ownership

  Only by taking the vaccine industry into full public ownership, with small "d" democratic controls in place, can we provide an internationalized response to this and future pandemics that properly recognizes vaccines as a global public good
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  Pitt: Six Deadly Months Late, Bob Woodward Warns Us Trump Is Lying About COVID

  Trump and his people treat their time in Washington D.C. as nothing more than an opportunity to loot the Treasury and enrich their friends. Their relationship to the people is entirely transactional, and is noxiously dismissive of the higher ideals of service or public responsibility
• and Matthew Jackson: US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade

  Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019
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  Cole: Aztec Politics

  Trump sacrificed 200K by Downplaying Covid-19 to save the Stock Market from Panic
• Gordon: Under Trump, Military Veterans and Service Members Have Been ‘Losers’

  A far bigger problem than Trump’s hurtful private comments about them is his Administration’s policy of privatizing their health care coverage
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  Dayen: Grad Student Strike at the University of Michigan the First Pandemic Pushback on Campus

  The GEO has a set of demands that correlate with our interlocking sets of national crises. Like many colleges that have returned, Michigan hasn’t put the safety of its students and faculty first, the union alleges
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  Covert: Covid-19 Workers’ Comp Claims Are Being Held Up or Denied

  Employers and insurance companies are insisting employees, even those directly exposed to the virus, can’t prove they got sick at work
• Turkle: That chatbot I’ve loved to hate

  In quarantine, we see the emptiness of pretend empathy
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  Devereaux: “There Is No Mercy”

  As the Coronavirus Descended on the Border, the Trump Administration Escalated Its Crackdown on Asylum
• Gomes: NYC Teachers Were About to Strike… Then Union Leaders Cut a Backroom Deal

  Teachers are understandably furious about this sellout on the part of their own leadership and the bureaucratic methods used to try to convince members to accept the deal