https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVb6EdKDBfU The film is based on the infamous 1969 trial of seven defendants charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the countercultural protests in Chicago at…
By SHERI FINK The worried doctors stood to- gether after their rounds, weigh- ing the risks. A 31-year-old preg- nant woman was in peril, her lungs ravaged by the coronavirus.…
NEW DELHI — After India’s health ministry repeatedly blamed an Islamic seminary for spreading the coronavirus — and governing party officials spoke of “human bombs” and “corona jihad” — a…
A few weeks ago, Hannah Sparks of The New York Post reported on “a morbid — and chillingly astute — new slang term for the coronavirus pandemic: boomer remover,” because the virus…
The pandemic makes it nearly impossible in some places to social distance and to get food at the same time. Though many rich economies have ground to a halt under…
THE NOVEL coronavirus, as far as we know, does not discriminate along racial lines. But America does — and the data so far show that black people are dying at a disproportionate rate. The…
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly taken the upper hand in the U.S. The mortality is rising day by day as the country facing one of its darkest days. But the…
It is perhaps inevitable that a problem as large and complex as covid-19 should result in a pandemic of motivated reasoning. It is a human tendency to interpret disasters as…
OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — For Olga Weiss, the order to stay at home is about much more than simply locking her door to the coronavirus. It has awakened fears…
On March 30, the Republican id burst forth when President Trump said that the latest congressional stimulus bill “had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to…