With working Americans’ survival at stake, the U.S. is bailing out the richest (The...
Without significant oversight, Congress’s economic relief bill will leave millions of everyday Americans in financial peril.
Amid...
The ideas that won’t survive the coronavirus (NYT)
Covid-19 is killing off the myth that we are the greatest country on earth.
Sometimes people ask...
I spent six days on a ventilator with covid-19. It saved me, but my...
David Lat is the founding editor of Above the Law, a website covering the legal profession, and a managing director at Lateral...
In the horror story, we always die first (Rolling Stone)
The coronavirus is striking black and brown people disproportionately, a prologue for the rest of America if nothing more is done....
I’ve read the plans to reopen the economy. They’re scary (Vox)
There is no plan to return to normal.
Over the past few days, I’ve been reading the...
Mothers and fathers are dying alone amid strangers and machines (Esquire)
The coronavirus has seeped into places far from the national spotlight.
“My mom said the guy at...
Trump is playing a disgusting political game with our lives (Denver Post)
President Donald Trump is treating life-saving medical equipment as emoluments he can dole out as favors to loyalists. It’s the worst imaginable...
Fox News set the stage for America’s poor coronavirus response (Slate)
The network has conditioned its viewers to hate experts and to trust miracle cures for 25 years.
Trump: Absentee voting is fraud unless it’s my supporters (Intelligencer)
“Mail-in voting is horrible. It’s corrupt,” declared President Trump earlier this week. When a reporter asked how he could reconcile that position...
Colonialism made Puerto Rico vulnerable to coronavirus catastrophe (The Nation)
If Washington keeps ignoring the U.S. territory, it could spell disaster.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA...