Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"In this unprecedented moment in modern American history, it is imperative that we respond in an unprecedented way."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday he would sign an executive order allowing the state to seize ventilators from private companies and hospitals that aren't using them in order to treat coronavirus patients.
Susan Sered
Americans, like people in many countries, hold onto oddly inaccurate nostalgia about how war brings us together as a nation. (Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the coronavirus pandemic continued to ravage the United States this week, killing and infecting thousands while shuttering schools and businesses, President Donald Trump proceeded with his ongoing effort to shift the federal judiciary to the far-right by announcing a fresh pair of lifetime nominees to appellate courts.
Ellen Brown
It took only a few days for Congress to unanimously pass the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which will be doling out $2.2 trillion in crisis relief, most of it going to Corporate America with few strings attached. (Photo: Public domain)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The national health insurance system is crumbling more with every day that passes."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Oh, so we have to pay our rent, but now Big Oil doesn't have to pay anything for destroying our public lands? Cool, cool."
Kathy Kelly
Ideally, nuclear weapon arsenals will be recognized as a crazed burden we must finally shed if we’ve any hope of surviving our past recklessness. (Photo: A B53 nuclear bomb at the Pantex facility in Texas/NNSA/flickr/cc)
Jeremy Brecher
One Detroit Center in Detroit, where bus drivers of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 26 kept 90% of the city’s buses in terminals on March 17 by refusing to work without adequate personal protective equipment. (Photo: Creative Commons)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Jared Kushner, senior advisor and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, made his first appearance as a key member of the White House coronavirus task force Thursday evening.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"In the middle of this crisis they're not thinking about people dying, hurting, or how their own fate is tied to these workers. Nope. They're thinking they've got to hold off the union organizing."
Bill Moyers
President Donald Trump hands out pens to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (L) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (C) after signing the CARES act, a $2 trillion rescue package to provide economic relief amid the coronavirus outbreak, at the Oval Office of the White House on March 27, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday evening approved its first resolution on the global coronavirus outbreak, calling for "intensified international cooperation to contain, mitigate, and defeat the pandemic" that has now killed over 55,000 people and infected more than one million worldwide.
Ted Morgan
Neoliberal capitalism will not, and cannot, provide universal health care. (Photo: Jonny White/cc/flickr)
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Every city, every community, needs to scale up the capacity to test, trace and isolate infected individuals. (Photo: Marco Cantile/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Peter S. Arno, Philip Caper
"The corporatization of medical care," writes the authors, "may be the single most distinguishing characteristic of the modern US health care system and the one that has had the most profound impact on it since the early 1980s." (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Elise Gould
Today’s data, combined with yesterday’s unprecedented unemployment insurance claims, show that Congress must act quickly to mitigate as much of the economic harm from the coronavirus as possible. (Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
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