The remainder of the 2020 primary season is trembling on the edge of delay, if not outright dissolution.
Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19
Since COVID-19 hit the United States, it’s been at the top of every news outlet’s headlines. However, the disparate impact and deep injustices that the crisis has wrought often go unmentioned. So do the underlying oppressive systems that allowed the pandemic to reach the magnitude that it has. Truthout is taking on these injustices with a broad-ranging series, “Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19,” which addresses how the pandemic intersects with issues of social, economic, environmental, racial, gender and disability justice. Through investigative reporting and dynamic analysis, we’ll paint a real picture of this pandemic’s implications — and sketch a bold new image of what a post-pandemic world could look like. In this series, journalists, activists, organizers and thinkers, many of whom have been brutally impacted by the crisis themselves, will share stories and insights that point the way toward a transformed future.
Thanks to budget cuts, public health departments nationwide have eliminated 50,000 positions since 2008.
The final Democratic debate was a dispiriting affair for reasons that went far beyond the politics of it.
The lack of protections could create shortages of caregivers and undermine efforts to control the coronavirus.
We are in the grip of a social panic where people are channeling their fears into racist and anti-immigrant attacks.
Unfortunately for the president, COVID-19 is proving stubbornly resistant to alternative facts.
In the absence of presidential leadership, we must be our own leaders and take care of our communities as best we can.
Under the U.S.’s for-profit health system, the epidemic is not being treated like the public emergency it is.
Because of Trump’s vanity and ineptitude, people will die, and many more will get sick.
The Ebola vaccine saga is a classic example of how big pharma is motivated by profit, not the public good.