Tamara Pearson
Governments and corporations should be held accountable for the inequalities they have perpetuated and that are decisive in who lives or dies, and how many. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Shahid Mahmood
Emphasizing COVID-19’s Asian origins during a pandemic undermines the obligations we have towards our fellow citizens. (Photo: Marco Cantile/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Coronavirus is the biggest story in the country, and rightfully so. But today, this enormous, exclusive, and damning story should be a very, very close second."
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
A plurality of all respondents cited a wealth tax as their preferred way to pay for the program.
Julia Conley, staff writer
The United Nations' top food aid authorities met with the African Union Thursday to discuss the looming food crisis on the continent, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Heidi Shierholz
Red sign hanging at the glass door of a shop says, "Closed due to coronavirus." (Photo: Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Powerful evidence that workers across the country are terrified and frustrated that their employers are not providing them with safe workplace."
Laurie Macfarlane
If neoliberalism was already on life support, then the coronavirus has administered the lethal blow. (Photo: Lan Hongguang/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images)
Joshua Cho
The US’s employer-based healthcare system is exceptionally vulnerable and incapable of addressing a pandemic, because enforcing the economic shutdown required by quarantine causes massive spikes in unemployment, which then lead to further drops in healthcare coverage, and further compound the problem in a vicious circle. (Photo: Joe Newman via Public Citizen/flickr/cc)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
The move by USAA, while welcomed, only makes the case for more oversight.
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Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Business leaders who took part in a series of calls with the president expressed fears they could be liable if employees went into work too early and got sick.
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Julia Conley, staff writer
Indigenous rights groups and climate action campaigners credited their years-long effort to block the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline for securing the latest legal victory against TC Energy on Wednesday, after a federal judge in Montana invalidated the company's water-crossing permit to build the pipeline.
Robert Dodge
As physicians and health practitioners we have warned for decades about the existential threats of nuclear war and climate change and vulnerability to global pandemics. (Photo: Scott Howe/DVIDS)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The new warning is issued in a open letter from 33 organizations across the globe.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Roughly 22 million Americans have filed jobless claims since mid-March as the United States has become the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, with over 30% of the world's more than two million confirmed cases.
Robert C. Koehler
"It’s hard not to conclude that the American government’s national security priorities have been so askew of reality that they left the country dramatically unprepared for an acute threat to millions of its people." (Photo: U.S. Army/flickr/cc)
Jeremy Brecher
More than 25 nurses at @UChicagoMed @IngallsHealth took action to protest the lack of N95 respirators, and the fact that nurses are being forced to work in the ER without proper training. We will ALWAYS fight for the safety of our patients and our communities!
John Buell
An intensive care nurse treat a patient at intensive care unit at the Klinikum Bad Hersfeld hospital on March 20, 2020 in Bad Hersfeld, Germany. (Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The earnings were so good, the company said it still expects to make as much in total profits this year as they predicted in December... when no one could predict the massive loss of life and jobs caused by the coronavirus."
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