Op-Ed: COVID-19 has broken the U.S. health system. Now what? (Los Angeles Times)
With the United States experiencing the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, the facade of our health system has come crashing down....
False Prophet (The Atlantic)
Media-bashing robocalls, chloroquine Twitter trolls, briefing-room propaganda — how the president and his allies are trying to convince America he was...
The coronavirus fight demands unity. But Republicans just want to own the libs (Vox)
The GOP was built to fail on coronavirus.
One of the most striking elements of the coronavirus...
Why coronavirus is killing African-Americans more than others (NYT)
Higher rates of infection and death among minorities demonstrate the racial character of inequality in America.
We...
Wellness influencers are spreading QAnon conspiracies about the coronavirus (Mother Jones)
An unfounded far-right fever dream meets unfounded far-out fever treatments.
Wellness influencers have been having a field...
George Conway: Trump simply doesn’t understand his job (WaPo)
Among Donald Trump’s many flaws as president is one that’s as fundamental as any: He simply doesn’t understand his job. When he...
COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for feminists (Jacobin)
The suffering of women during the coronavirus pandemic illuminates where feminists need to push harder. Medicare for All, free higher education...
Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s inaction has a staggering toll (WaPo)
President Trump suspended payments to the World Health Organization — a move Bill Gates called “as dangerous as it sounds” — in a frantic...
Trump responds to reports about his incompetence by flying into a self-pitying rage at...
He even brought his own hastily made propaganda reel.
Donald Trump’s daily coronavirus task force press briefings stopped...
COVID-19 highlights and intensifies our mistreatment of the poor (The Hill)
The interaction of a raging pandemic and a deep recession are requiring government to take on numerous new tasks. Even more striking,...