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COVID-19
Nearly 2 Dozen GOP States Are Trying to Use COVID Relief Funds for Tax Cuts
Some states are attempting to finance tax cuts for the wealthy instead of devoting the money to combating the pandemic.
COVID Policies Should Be Decided by Public Health Agencies, Not Corporations
Some medical professionals and researchers are worried about Pfizer's outsize influence.
Experts Are Worried About the Potential of Another Brutal COVID Winter
Let us find our way to the new year without walking on a road of bones, again.
As Governments Push Us “Back to Normal,” Don’t Forget About Prison Conditions
In a nation with the world’s largest prison population, decarceration must be our goal.
Many Nations Have Used COVID to Impose the Tyranny of Transnational Capital
The “new normal” rammed during the pandemic involves increasingly obscene power held by transnational corporations.
Activists Say WTO Deal on Vaccine Patents Is “Sham” Dictated by Rich Nations
Advocates say the agreement will do virtually nothing to address vast global inequities in vaccine and treatment access.
Medicare for All Could Have Prevented 338,000 COVID Deaths in the US
A study also shows that universal health coverage could have saved $459 billion in medical costs during 2020 alone.
Adjunct and Tenured Faculty Must Unite to Resist Pandemic Opportunism on Campus
Administrators are still using COVID to justify the neoliberal gutting of higher education. Let’s resist together.
Andrew Giuliani Can’t Attend GOP Gubernatorial Debate Due to Being Unvaccinated
The son of the former New York City mayor claims "natural immunity" should be enough to let him participate in person.
WTO Draft Text Has Abandoned COVID Patent Waiver, Critics Say
A World Trade Organization conference kicked off in Geneva on Sunday amid demonstrations in support of the TRIPS waiver.