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Your Employers Are Behind the Rush to Reopen
The bosses and politicians are forcing us to choose between two bad options: Either work unsafely or lose unemployment.
What New York City’s Cholera Epidemics Can Teach Us in the Age of COVID-19
Like COVID now, the city’s response to cholera in the 1800s was driven by the class and race of those who fell ill.
The US Has a Long History of Weaponizing Aid to Other Countries
There is a covert U.S. strategy in which humanitarian aid is weaponized not by withholding it, but by providing it.
We Don’t Have to Choose Between Our Health and the Economy
We can protect public health and economic security so we can quarantine safely and reopen when it is safe.
Protecting Public Health Requires COVID-19 Treatments to Be Patent-Free
Congress could declare treatment development is a response to a national emergency and can’t be subject to patents.
New Postmaster General’s Focus on Modernization Likely Means Job Losses at USPS
Postal workers should be alarmed at Louis DeJoy's 35 years’ experience in “labor analytics.”
How a Lobbying Campaign Pushed the CDC to Relax Protective Gear Guidelines
Looser CDC guidelines removed hospitals' obligation to adhere to strict OSHA respiratory protection standards.
Big Ag Lets Hundreds of Thousands of Farm Animals Die in Barn Fires Every Year
Farm animals have less legal protection than other confined animals, such as those living in laboratories or zoos.
Don’t Expect to See Trump’s Tax Returns Before the Election
The cases will probably be sent back to the lower courts, leaving the matter unresolved until after the 2020 election.
Deforestation and Monoculture Farming Spread COVID-19 and Other Diseases
Scientists say the current pandemic is part of a larger pattern linking infectious diseases to habitat loss.