"The nonessential worker got put on a train," state Rep. Heather Scott said on a podcast episode last week. An Idaho state legislator is being criticized for “extreme ignorance” after…
Addressing climate change is a big enough idea to revive the economy. On the last Friday in March, I lost hope. I have always believed in America: not in our…
Higher rates of infection and death among minorities demonstrate the racial character of inequality in America. We know that Covid-19 is killing African-Americans at greater rates than any other group. You can…
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…