A Critique of Oppenheimer: How The Bomb Spawned the Pandemic and Facilitates Another One
Beyond Oppenheimer: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto and roots of Fauci's betrayal of science. How Kai Bird gets the lessons exactly wrong.
Discrimination Took a Heavy Toll on Asian American Students During The Pandemic
By Roxanne Prichard / The Conversation The big idea Experiencing discrimination significantly harmed the well-being of Asian and Asian American college students in the U.S. during the first wave of…
The End of Community College?
In the wake of the pandemic, we must demand a new deal for the community college that fulfills its democratic potential.
NYT Blames US Public for Collapse of Pandemic Safety Net
By Conor Smyth / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) A ban on evictions. Required paid leave. Continuous Medicaid coverage. Free school meals. Emergency SNAP allotments. An extra $600 a…
Pfizer Condemned for Hiking US Covid Vaccine Price by 10,000% Above Cost
The pandemic profiteering is never-ending.
How Humans Are Making Pandemics Three Times More Likely
By Mitchell Beer | The Energy Mix Habitat loss and global heating are making extreme epidemics like COVID-19 three times more likely, finds a new study. The yearly probability of…
NYT Scolds China for Not ‘Learning to Live’—or Die—With Covid
By Jim Naureckas / FAIR Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the…
America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows US Killing Its Own Population
Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic – and that Americans are dying younger than their peers…
Dealing With the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town
Nina Burleigh takes you behind the scenes of her own life to offer one of so many millions of Covid-19 dramas that played out in these years — and, of…
Did the Long Pandemic Spawn a New Kind of Repression?
We’re all Covid-exhausted by now, but what a shame if that were to lead not just to the deaths of ever more Americans but of a political system, too.
Great Disorder and Extravagant Lies
For an agenda of compassion that gives hope in the possibilities of a world not rooted in private profit, Vijay Prashad turns to the public-health program of Kerala, India.
The First and Worst Hit by Pandemics of Every Sort
You could say metaphorically that the poor in America have long lived under pandemic conditions. In the last two-plus years, however, that metaphorical reality became all too literal.
A Pandemic of the Poor
As we approach 1 million COVID-19 deaths, Americans in poorer counties have died at double the rate of wealthier counties.
America’s High Covid Death Toll Is a Result of Capitalist Austerity Policies
The Biden administration is continuing them and has declared an end to the pandemic when it still exists.
Teachers Union Warns Pandemic Burnout Destroying Schools
By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams New polling out Tuesday reveals pervasive burnout among the nation’s educators as pandemic-related staffing shortages and other difficulties drive a potential exodus from the…