View from Death Row: We Are the Living Dead
For weeks, prisoners at San Quentin have been sick and dying as the epidemic spread rapidly in the crowded, stacked cells. Then the author fell ill, too.
Covid-19 Is Giving Oil Companies a Taste of Another Looming Crisis
Big oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron have lost billions during the pandemic, but that's nothing compared to what's coming.
The Kids Are Alright. At Least Yours.
Don’t overstate the benefits of opening schools for poor children while allowing the reckless endangerment of the adults that care for them.
Gov. Newsom Made a Cynical Gamble on Prisons During the Pandemic — and Californians Will Pay with Their Lives
The Democratic governor's unwillingness to release prisoners has allowed a viral conflagration which threatens the Bay Area and beyond.
View from Death Row: The Disproportionate Blues
We African Americans have often been told that times have changed. We are tired of pretending.
Covid-19 May Be Accelerating a Genocide of Brazil’s Indigenous People
It is even more difficult to pin down data on infections and deaths in their communities than it is for the general Brazilian population.
A Speech to the Class of 2020: You Didn’t Deserve This
How the roof fell in, a graduation speech for an age of collapse
Danny Sjursen: The End of Warfare As We Know It?
The future of forever war, American-style
Andrea Mazzarino: Who Is ‘Essential’ to Our Covid-19 World
A military spouse’s perspective on fighting this pandemic
Pandemic News – Then and Now
A poem ripped from the headlines by a queer who remembers
Teacher Wisdom: K-12 Students Cannot Return to Campus This Fall
Physical distancing at schools is impossible. Now is the time to prepare robust distance learning and close the technology gap.
Sarah Holt: A Global Look at the Virus That Upended the World
The filmmaker's NOVA documentary, “Decoding Covid-19,” offers a hopeful account of the international cooperation that has stemmed from the unprecedented crisis.
Fundamentalist Pandemics
A Tomgram: Juan Cole, Iran and the U.S., an irony of curious affinity.
What Impact Has Coronavirus Had on Policing?
Reposted with permission of the Real News Network
So Long to American Exceptionalism
in Donald Trump’s America, we’re inside the community of nations in a grim new way: as fellow patients, grievers, and supplicants in search of food and shelter, along with so…