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COVID-19
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.
Homelessness Could Rise 45 Percent in One Year Due to Unemployment Crisis
A new study estimates that about 250,000 people could be left homeless as a result of layoffs in the wake of COVID-19.
Cuomo Denounced for Order Sending Thousands of COVID Patients to Nursing Homes
Republicans and the Trump administration are not the only ones to blame for unnecessary deaths during the pandemic.
Secretive Right-Wing Nonprofit Plays Role in COVID-19 Organizing
A shadowy right-wing nonprofit is helping coordinate coronavirus response strategy and promoting the lockdown protests.
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.
I’m a Frontline Medical Worker. I Contracted COVID — and It Took My Grandfather.
We don't want to be heroes right now. We just want to live another day.
Immigrants Jailed by ICE Are Winning Court Battles to Get Free
Organizers inside and outside ICE detention are fighting to get people free, and they’ve succeeded hundreds of times.
Trump Says He Will Not “Close the Country” If Second Wave of Virus Hits
Some health experts are warning that the country is ill-prepared for a second wave of the disease.