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USPS Needs Financial Aid to Continue Providing Essential Services
The U.S. Postal Service is facing insolvency due to crisis-related drops in mail revenue and increased costs.
As Markets Crashed, DeVos Sold Shares in Secretive Cayman Island Fund
The sale raises questions again about how officials personally benefited from access to non-public information on COVID.
Despite Job Gains in June, Recovery Will Slow Without Congressional Action
We are still very far from a situation that is anything close to normal.
Activists Are Challenging Colorado’s Ongoing Legacy of Racism
Colorado has a long history as a breeding ground for white supremacy and police violence.
Amazon Says Black Lives Matter, But It’s Helping Fund Police Foundations
One of Amazon's charitable arms helps fund police foundations that purchase surveillance equipment and weaponry.
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.
Law Firms Plan to Sue Governments for Profits Lost Due to Pandemic Measures
Governments could face a surge of investor-state arbitration for public health measures in response to the coronavirus.
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.
How Will COVID-19 Change the World?
Historian Frank Snowden discusses epidemics from the Black Death to smallpox to COVID-19.
In Conflict of Interest, Interior Secretary Met With Halliburton Lobbyists
Like Ryan Zinke, his replacement, David Bernhardt, also has ethics issues involving oil and gas companies.