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Where Trumpism Lives

Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by economic despair in rural America.

Jacob Whiton

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Politics, Science & Nature

Hydroxychloroquine and the Political Polarization of Science

How a drug became an object lesson in political tribalism.

Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall

Global Justice, Politics

Trump, WHO, and Half a Century of Global Health Austerity

Any attempt to revive solidarity between rich and poor nations must begin by recapturing the commitment to social and economic rights on which the WHO was founded.

Michael Brenes, Michael Franczak

Forum

Reclaiming Populism

A political appeal to “the people” is a central element of democratic societies. Can we imagine a revitalized, multiracial populist politics today?

Adom Getachew

Politics

Technocracy After COVID-19

Crisis management only blurs ever more the boundary between politics and technical expertise.

Jonathan White

Politics

The New Politics of Care

The right response to COVID-19 is to rebuild our economy from the ground up, putting people to work in a massive jobs program to secure the public health of all.

Gregg Gonsalves, Amy Kapczynski

Politics

COVID-19 Requires More Democracy, Not Less

We must take very seriously the responsibility to judge our leaders' policies. When they fail us, we must act as leaders ourselves.

Archon Fung

Politics

Body Politics

What does solidarity look like when our bodies cannot come together, in public, to agitate for a better world?

Judith Levine

Law & Justice, Politics

Abortions Don't Drain Hospital Resources

A doctor's case against COVID-19 abortion bans. 

Daniel Grossman

Politics

An End to Totalitarianism

Fixating on whether Trump’s response to COVID-19 is totalitarian makes it difficult to have a nuanced discussion about the role government should play in times of crisis.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Politics

It Takes Three (or More)

To combat the new normal of two-party gridlock in U.S. politics, many call for more political parties. But what works in parliamentary governments might not help in our presidential system.

Sam Rosenfeld

Global Justice, Politics

No, Autocracies Aren't Better for Public Health

Some have praised China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but its suppression of information helped cause the problem in the first place.

Yasheng Huang

Class & Inequality, Politics

Coronavirus and the Politics of Disposability

COVID-19 is having a disproportionate effect among vulnerable populations.

Shaun Ossei-Owusu

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