Coronavirus

A Direct Legacy of Slavery, Domestic Worker Exploitation Is On the Rise In the U.S.

The pandemic has left already vulnerable workers even more exposed to abuses on the job.

Maurizio Guerrero

15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, Another Perfect Storm Is Upon Us

When Katrina hit, the mainstream media and Congress both reacted shamefully. Their response to the pandemic is no different.

Joel Bleifuss

Banks Have Made $18 Billion From "Paycheck Protection Program" Processing Fees Alone

Fees paid to banks eclipse funding allocated to develop vaccines, provide medical supplies and feed children.

Colleen Boyle

Social Abstinence Is Not a Sustainable Pandemic Response

The "just say no" approach isn't working. But here's what might.

In These Times Editors

This Terrifying Economic Crisis Will Make Cities Better

Amid the pandemic, the rich are fleeing American cities. That’s a good thing.

Hamilton Nolan

Trump Is Trying to Put Us on War Footing with China. It’s Up to the Left to Stop It.

On the dangers of the Right’s new China scare

Tobita Chow and Jake Werner

The Pandemic Is Exposing the Rotten Core of Our Industrial Food System

While industrial farms have been thrown into chaos, local agriculture has proved to be a more resilient model.

Joseph Bullington

Robert Reich: How Mitch McConnell’s Republicans Are Destroying America

While a lethal pandemic and economic crisis wreak havoc on working families, McConnell and the GOP are dead set on protecting business interests and enriching the wealthy.

Robert Reich

The Search for a Covid Vaccine Is Not an Arms Race

Treating vaccine research like a national security secret endangers us all.

Sarah Lazare

Workers Blow the Whistle on Mass Death

Private equity firms have imposed austerity measures on the hospitals they acquire. In a pandemic, that’s meant countless preventable deaths.

Moe Tkacik

Between Dwindling Revenue and Rising Virus Cases, Rural Hospitals Face a Reckoning

April Simpson

They Are Burying Us Alive in Prison

When Covid-19 broke out in Stateville Correctional Center, we were left to die.

Raul Dorado

All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship—Not Just “Essential Workers”

The pandemic has made clear that we need to provide citizenship for all immigrants, and safe working conditions for all workers.

Shannon Gleeson and Sofya Aptekar

Nationalize the Pharmaceutical Industry Now

The status quo will kill us.

Hadas Thier

There Is No Plan (For You)

Unemployment, evictions, business failure, a pandemic and health crises are all here at once. The federal government doesn't care.

Hamilton Nolan

In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.

The Post Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation requiring it to "pay for itself."

Rebecca Burns

How the Trump Administration’s Small Business Protection Program Has Failed Communities of Color

The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated businesses run by people of color. The Trump administration's Small Business Administration isn’t helping.

Miranda Litwak

“People’s Eyes Are Starting To Open”: How Covid-19 Is Driving Support for Medicaid Expansion

In North Carolina, canvassers are working to expand Medicaid—and finding a sympathetic audience amid the pandemic.

Allison Salerno