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…
LA Ended a Zero-bail COVID Rule, and Now the Jail Population Is Growing
In June, a judge ended an emergency order to slow the spread of COVID-19 in LA’s jails, enraging civil-rights advocates.
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…
Court Rejects Google’s Attempt to Dismiss Rumble’s Antitrust Lawsuit, Ensuring Vast Discovery
An unusual and significant court ruling entitles YouTube's main competitor, Rumble, to obtain long-hidden internal documents on Google's search engine manipulations.
The Coming Battle Over Vaccines
Natural scientists have done their part by creating vaccines. To get people to take them, we need social science.
Vaccine Thinking Applied to All of American Life
The remarkably speedy hunt for a Covid-19 vaccine shows what might be possible when it comes to the inequality that may be the most striking aspect of American life in…
What Canvassing in Nevada Amid a Pandemic Has Taught Me
For canvassers and voters in Reno, where the climate emergency and the Covid-19 pandemic are literally in our faces, the stakes in the upcoming election are clear
Surviving the Pandemic In a Broken Country
While most of the developed world has been dealing with the impact of the pandemic in a reasonable fashion, it’s played out differently here in the U.S.
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.
View from Death Row: The Disproportionate Blues
We African Americans have often been told that times have changed. We are tired of pretending.
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
Foreign Correspondent: The Rest of the World Sees Uprisings, Not Riots
The black liberation movement has a long history of solidarity with the Third World. Some of today’s protesters, particularly whites, may not be familiar with that history and its lessons…
Foreign Correspondent: How Cuba Is Fighting the Virus
So far government efforts have severely restricted the pandemic's spread since it was first discovered among foreign tourists.
Call for POC Solidarity: Wealth Is Inherently Built on the Suffering of Others
Do not make the mistake of projecting your rage at 'rioters', rage at the system that created the NECESSITY for riots.
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.