Our system takes from the poor and working class to generate wealth for the already wealthy. In March, Congress passed a coronavirus bill including $3.1 billion to develop and produce…
Mobilizing to confront the pandemic and, eventually, to reconstruct the shattered economy, requires not only medical and economic expertise but also moral and political renewal. We need to ask a…
Time to give new life to an old idea: A strong public health system is the best guarantor of good health. A once-in-a-century public health crisis is unfolding, and the…
The coronavirus, like other plagues before it, could shift the balance between rich and poor. In the fall of 1347, rat fleas carrying bubonic plague entered Italy on a few…
As we all know, Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – will be very different this year.There will be no commemorative ceremonies anywhere in the world to bring people together…
"You're saying 20 seconds of wash your hands with water," a Navajo doctor in Arizona said. "We do not have plumbing. And that's how I grew up." Every third day,…
Youk Chhang argues that having humanity will help Cambodia in battling the coronavirus pandemic.PHNOM PENH — Editor’s Note: Youk Chhang is the director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia. The Center's focus on…
WOODLAND PARK, N.J. – It was the best news Steve Mastropietro could have hoped to receive. His 91-year-old father had made a near-miraculous rebound on Saturday morning after being diagnosed…
The US health system has failed black and Latino populations for decades. Now they’re paying the price. It has been clear for some time that the coronavirus pandemic is killing…
Some Native American tribes whose livelihoods have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic filed suit against the U.S. Treasury on Friday in an attempt to ensure that $8 billion in…