Interview | Environment & Health We Need Testing and Trust — Not Travel Bans, Says Epidemiologist “Foreign virus” is a nonsensical term for something that affects us all, says infectious disease expert Derek Cummings. By Danny Katch , Truthout March 22, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights Our Responses to COVID-19 Must Center Disability Justice Here’s how we can turn these unprecedented and slapdash coronavirus measures into actual disability justice. By Katie Tastrom , Truthout March 21, 2020 Truthout
Excerpt | Politics & Elections We Can’t Let COVID-19 Drive Us Into Authoritarianism Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, will we collapse into authoritarianism or learn the lessons of this moment? By Noam Chomsky , Truthout March 21, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights The COVID-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis of Capitalism COVID-19 is another blow to the house of cards that is the existence of the marginalized. By Khadijah Kanji , Truthout March 20, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor Senators Cash In on COVID-19 as a Plundered Nation Reels The pursuit of profit and growth is the ethos of the virus that has attacked us. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout March 20, 2020 Truthout
News | Immigration Trump’s Deportation Machine Is Still Churning Despite Coronavirus Outbreak Immigration defense attorneys are worried about another outbreak in ICE jails. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout March 19, 2020 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed So far, no state governor has responded to the call for releasing the most vulnerable people from prison. By Victoria Law , Truthout March 19, 2020 Truthout
News Analysis | Economy & Labor We Are Facing Economic Collapse on Top of a Pandemic. What We Do Now Matters. As the COVID-19 virus spreads, the U.S. economy has begun to crumble like a house of cards. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout March 18, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections Biden Is Winning, But Sanders’s Ideas May End Up Salvaging the Country The United States is now primed for a slew of socialist policies. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout March 18, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections It’s Taken a Pandemic to Make Politicians Take Note of Our Basic Needs The U.S.’s social compact at the end of this crisis will look dramatically different from how it looked going in. By Sasha Abramsky , Truthout March 17, 2020 Truthout