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Class & Inequality, Politics

Coronavirus and the Politics of Disposability

COVID-19 is having a disproportionate effect among vulnerable populations. When the dust settles, as in all U.S. disasters, there will be a tale to tell of who mattered and who was sacrificed.

Shaun Ossei-Owusu

Politics

“Hello, We Are from Wisconsin, and We Are Your Future”

As Wisconsinites are forced to vote during a pandemic, it’s worth recalling the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising, and the valuable lessons that can be gleaned from labor organizing in the face of disaster.

Eleni Schirmer

Philosophy & Religion

Dying in Jerusalem

Unlike most places in the world where people get buried where they lived, for over two millennia people have traveled from far and wide to die in Jerusalem. But now the city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.

Etan Nechin

Science & Nature

New Pathogen, Old Politics

We should be wary of simplistic uses of history, but we can learn from the logic of social responses.

Alex de Waal

Science & Nature

Eight Needed Steps in the Fight Against COVID-19

In addition to masks and ventilators, doctors demand a fundamental transformation of our health care system.

Adam Gaffney

Class & Inequality, Politics

Meet the Bailout's New Slush Fund

The battle over the bailout—set to be delivered through a once-obscure Treasury Department mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund—has only just begun.

Andrew Elrod, Mark Engler

Law & Justice, Politics

How to Mend Our Broken Electoral Process

We must institute a method of electing a president that is sensitive to the votes of Americans everywhere.

Reed Hundt

Class & Inequality

Debtors of the World, Unite!

Debt’s ubiq­uity is a burden, but also an opportunity.

Hannah Appel

Class & Inequality

For Whom the Markets Toll

Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson still have not reckoned with the failures of neoliberal planning in the wake of the financial crisis.

Reed Hundt

Gender & Sexuality, Science & Nature

Science Won't Settle Trans Rights

Appeals to the biological facts conceal a deeper contest over political equality—and scientific authority itself.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Law & Justice, Politics

Designing Better Impeachments

How other countries’ constitutions protect against political free-for-alls.

Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, David Landau

Class & Inequality

Taxing the Superrich

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

Gabriel Zucman, Emmanuel Saez

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