Noam Chomsky: Trump Has Adopted a “Viva Death!” Approach to the Presidency
In this interview, Chomsky provides insight on how we can best grapple with the current moment – and prepare for the sobering future.
Sydney Lea: Spring Poem in the Season of Corona
I’ve lived enough to expect odd snow-squalls, slapped
To anger by nasty winds. I predict more hours
In which we’re sealed in rooms foursquare and flat,
Where we’ll dream of the past…
Stephanie Hiller: COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement
Could this be the beginning of a new food economy?
Jamie Rowan: Memorial Day | Why veterans are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic
An estimated 45,000 veterans are homeless on any given night, and 181,500 veterans are in prison or jail.
Lise Ragbir: How Coronavirus Will Shape a Generation
This generation now collectively understands that one’s daily existence can change overnight.
Juan Cole: Fundamentalist Pandemics
What Evangelicals Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
Pam Uschuk: Like Obsidian’s Idea of Itself | Operation Uplift During the Pandemic
Each day my friend asks us to share
evidence of grace, photo trails of kids laughing,
prayer flags strung with petals
Michelle D. Holmes, M.D: Re-opening America
As health professionals prepare for another wave of the pandemic, a Harvard epidemiologist discusses the injustices arising from rationing medical equipment in America.
Jade Begay: What Indian Country Remembers About Survival
Community is central in the Indigenous response. Identify who in our community is most vulnerable and strategize the best ways to protect them.
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Push to Relax COVID-19 Protections Exposes Age-Old Racial Wounds
Jared Kushner called America’s response to COVID-19, “a great success story.” And some states are moving to aggressively reopen malls, retail stores, restaurants, gyms, bowling alleys, parks, and hair parlors and even ordering people to go back to work.
John Feffer: The Black Death Killed Feudalism. What Does COVID-19 Mean for Capitalism?
How will the coronavirus transform the relationship between state and market? A look at oil, food, and finance.
Michael Simms: On my recent experience with Covid (maybe)
Yesterday afternoon when I got home from the hospital and booted my computer, I was overwhelmed by the thousands of people who sent me messages of love and encouragement after my recent health scare.
Richard Gunderman: The ‘first scientist’s’ 800-year-old tonic for what ails us: The truth
In times like these, we urgently need leaders who know what they are talking about and whose commitment to truth exceeds their loyalty to party or person – among them, the sort of people long known as scientists…
Jane Ganahl, et al: Elder Women Speak about the Virus
Women over 60 share their coronavirus stories—from becoming a grandmother to dancing in the street.
