Coronavirus

Time for Progressives to Seize the Means of Production of House Relief Bills

Pelosi’s bill proves Democratic leadership won’t do what needs to be done.

Hamilton Nolan

10 Signs That Prove Big Pharma Could Care Less About Your Health

Drug companies are lobbying to protect their right to profit from any future Covid-19 vaccine.

Dayton Martindale

Give Every Child a $1,000 Trust Account and the Next Crisis Won’t Be So Bad

To weather the economic wreckage of the Covid-19 crisis—and prepare for future disasters—we should enact a Just Futures Fund.

Jim Pugh

Meat Factory Work is Dangerous in Normal Times. The Same Conditions Spread Covid-19

Michael Haedicke

SARS Lessons Lost

What the United States should have learned from SARS—and blatantly ignored.

Indigo Olivier

Democratic Socialist Officials Lay Out Demands for Local Government Responses to Covid-19

A just response to the pandemic requires centering working people. Here's where to start.

Democratic Socialist Elected Officials

The President Is Goading Anti-Lockdown Militias to Violence

We must not overlook the danger of Trump's signaling.

Max Elbaum

The U.S. Response to Covid-19 Has Lavished Wealth on the Rich

While the pandemic ravages American workers, the federal government has orchestrated a monumental transfer of wealth from the bottom of the economic ladder to the top.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Look at How Much Sense It Makes to Do the Green New Deal Right Now

We can get out of this depression and save the planet all at once.

Sarah Lazare

EPA Gives Agribusiness Giant Syngenta a Pass on Pesticide Monitoring Due to Covid-19 Concerns

Johnathan Hettinger

The Absolute Minimum That Democrats Should Demand In the Next Stimulus

The next stimulus package must include aid to state and local governments, protections for employed and unemployed workers, and investments in our democracy.

Celine McNicholas, Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz

A Mask Shortage Could Leave Farmers and Farm Workers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides

Melanie Bateman

Congress: Either Come Babysit My Kids, or Cancel My Rent

I’m a mother of 6-year-old twins and like millions of other Americans, I can't pay rent—so I'm going on a rent strike.

Jenay Manley

Don’t Believe the Debt Hawks—More Stimulus Is the Only Path to Recovery

Fear-mongering over the deficit is the absolute wrong approach to the Covid-19 crisis.

Josh Bivens

A Federal Jobs Program for Contact Tracing

To safely reopen the economy, we need a public health corps. Here's how to build it.

Dayton Martindale

The Real Reason Why the WHO Waited Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic

The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic.

Vijay Prashad

In Montana, Food Banks Battle Surging Demand and Shifting Supply Chains

Joseph Bullington

“An Essential Procedure”: How Abortion Providers Are Persevering Through the Pandemic

In the face of Covid-19, clinics are continuing to provide safe abortions at a safe distance.

Jessica Corbett