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Science & Nature

New Pathogen, Old Politics

We should be wary of simplistic uses of history, but we can learn from the logic of social responses.

Science & Nature

Eight Needed Steps in the Fight Against COVID-19

In addition to masks and ventilators, doctors demand a fundamental transformation of our health care system.

Arts in Society

All We Remember Will Be Forgotten

When bees around the world exhibit a frightening new behavior, a researcher takes comfort in a familiar hive. Short Story

Gender & Sexuality

Love One Another or Die

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care. What can we learn from this strategy today? And why is it still so difficult to talk about AIDS?

Arts in Society

What Used to Be Caracas

Years after an extinction event nearly wiped out humanity, a team of scientists search Venezuela for signs of life and evidence of what caused the tragedy. Short Story

Mike McClelland

Law & Justice

Who's in Charge?

It’s easy to interpret the disorder of our COVID-19 response through the lens of unpreparedness or partisanship. But that misses the complex legal structure of emergency governance.

Gender & Sexuality

Fighting for Public Health

The HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics are very different, but both reveal that the United States has never understood the connection between community and personal well-being.

Michael Bronski

Class & Inequality

Should There Be a COVID-19 Rent Strike?

While the government and some banks have announced mortgage moratoriums, they have not insisted that rent relief be passed on to tenants. Many renters don’t know what they will do come April 1, let alone May 1.

Class & Inequality, Politics

Meet the Bailout's New Slush Fund

The battle over the bailout—set to be delivered through a once-obscure Treasury Department mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund—has only just begun.

Andrew Elrod, Mark Engler

Class & Inequality

End Shareholder Primacy Once and For All

We face an economic crisis not least because the rules of corporate governance slight workers and preclude economic resiliency. We must reform them now.

Lenore Palladino

Race

American Racism in the Time of Plagues

The United States has a long history of blaming Asian immigrants for outbreaks of disease. Every time, democracy and public health suffer.

Science & Nature

Markets v. Lives

Claims that the cure is worse than the disease rely on a false tradeoff between human needs and the economy.

Gregg Gonsalves, Amy Kapczynski

Global Justice

Remembering the Golden Spike Ceremony

Sanctions Are Inhumane—Now, and Always

Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

The War on Brazilian Democracy

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Marcelo K. Silva

Evil Empire

The Government Is Targeting Immigration Lawyers, Activists, and Reporters

Uncivil Disobedience in Hong Kong

How to Think About Empire

Arundhati Roy, Avni Sejpal

Mass Starvation Is a Crime—It's Time We Treated It That Way

Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah

Kevin P. Donovan, Emma Park

Science & Nature

Science Hasn't Refuted Free Will

Markets v. Lives

Gregg Gonsalves, Amy Kapczynski

Eight Needed Steps in the Fight Against COVID-19

Science for Sale

Alone Against the Virus

Amy Kapczynski, Gregg Gonsalves

Thinking in a Pandemic

Science Won't Settle Trans Rights

Anne Fausto-Sterling

New Pathogen, Old Politics

The Robots Are Coming

Kenneth A. Taylor

READING LISTS

When Political Resistance Turns Violent

READING LIST

Philosophers, historians, and political scientists contribute to a reading list on nonviolence.

Beyond Health Insurance

READING LIST

There’s more that’s wrong with our medical system...

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