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July 29, 2020
Zachary Siegel
The Coronavirus Is Blowing Up Our Best Response to the Opioid Crisis
“Any gains we made in funding for health departments, syringe exchanges, naloxone distribution—it’s all at risk.”
July 27, 2020
Nick Martin
It Was Insane to Restart Sports in America
The Miami Marlins are dealing with a Covid-19 outbreak, and the NBA is flirting with disaster in its “bubble.” What did team owners think would happen?
July 27, 2020
Susie Armitage
The Growing Fight Against the School Death Trap
Teachers, bus drivers, health aides, and other school workers are organizing against a culture that is trying to feed them into the jaws of the pandemic.
July 24, 2020
Katie McDonough
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J.C. Pan
What $600 Can Do
Millions of people are in danger of losing a benefit that has kept their heads above water. These are some of their stories.
July 23, 2020
Meredith Shiner
The Infernal Logic of Professional Sports in a Pandemic
Plutocratic interests and the coronavirus crisis have made “Value Over Replacement Human” baseball’s hottest new statistic.
July 23, 2020
Melody Schreiber
Here’s What It Would Take to Reopen Schools Safely
A deep dive into what the research says about the question on every parent’s mind
July 22, 2020
Nick Martin
How to Make a Deadly Pandemic in Indian Country
From the 1918 Spanish flu to Covid-19, broken treaties have been the foundation of health crises among Native people.
July 16, 2020
Casey Taylor
The Ethical Dilemma of My Parents’ Death Wish
They wanted to see their grandchildren, despite the risk of catching the coronavirus. I couldn’t say no.
July 15, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Anthony Fauci Is Not Our Savior
He may be wildly more popular than Trump, but he can’t rescue America from the ignorance and incompetence of the Trump White House.
July 14, 2020
Nick Martin
Ivanka Trump and Lockheed Martin Want You to Reach for the Stars and Stop Collecting Unemployment
The nation is slowly collapsing, and the best the White House could come up with was a repackaged version of “shoot your shot.”
July 9, 2020
Megan Evershed
Reading the Literature of Grief During a Pandemic
Two books grappling with loss offer strange solace.
July 8, 2020
Bryce Covert
Kill the Tipped Minimum Wage
Workers were barely getting by before the pandemic, and the situation has only grown more desperate since then.
June 15, 2020
Magazine
Ari Schulman
The Coronavirus and the Right’s Scientific Counterrevolution
How a new class of outsider experts is exploiting institutional failures and destabilizing knowledge
June 10, 2020
Jennifer Wilson
The Down Days
Is an Eerily Prescient Pandemic Novel
When Ilze Hugo started writing about an outbreak, she thought she was imagining a far-fetched dystopia.
June 10, 2020
Laura Weiss
Will My Covid Symptoms Ever End?
Among the long-haul survivors of the pandemic
June 9, 2020
Andrew J. Bacevich
Will 2020 Finally Kill America’s War Fetish?
The U.S. has historically chosen war to address all kinds of problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different.
May 31, 2020
Ryu Spaeth
America’s Social Contract Is Broken
The protests across the country are about more than police violence.
May 21, 2020
Matthew Sitman
Why the Pandemic Is Driving Conservative Intellectuals Mad
The lockdown has produced a disparity between the old script of grievance and a sickness that can wreak destruction on anyone.
May 20, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Is Baseball Safe?
Just because we may get a baseball season doesn’t mean we deserve one.
May 18, 2020
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Aaron Timms
Making Life Cheap
Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables
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