Coronavirus

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

Coronavirus Has Shown that Our Food System Is Broken. Now Is the Time to Make It More Resilient

Emma Burnett and Luke Owen

My University Plans to Reopen This Summer, Based on Advice From McKinsey. That’s Terrifying.

McKinsey & Company is pushing a military-style, corporate response to the Covid-19 crisis in public higher education. What we need is an anti-racist approach.

Jeffrey Helgeson

Artists Explore the Hidden Tolls of Life Lived at a Distance

What art looks like in isolation

Diana Babineau