COVID-19, like climate, isn’t just about a singular crisis — it’s about multiple crises unfolding all at once.
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.
Do not listen to the president.
The Trump administration’s invocation of emergency powers could lead to egregious violations of constitutional rights.
Voting by mail exclusively would preclude the need for poll workers during a pandemic.
If we somehow avoid a catastrophe on a truly epic scale, it will not be because of the Trump administration.
Governments and communities must come up with a plan to deal with climate-related displacement amid a pandemic.
A one-time 3 percent wealth tax on the world’s richest 10 percent could raise $9 trillion toward economic recovery.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) serves as a backup health care system in a national health emergency.
Trump’s claim that this will end by Easter cannot rationally exist in the same universe as the $2 trillion aid package.
To distract from his own administration’s failures, Trump has turned to some of the U.S.’s oldest nativist tropes.