Five Years of COVID-19

To meet the challenge of enduring spread in the years to come, we must prioritize primary care and community health over the profit-driven status quo.

Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.

The government enforced a strict lockdown for weeks, giving the illusion of responsible policy. Poor people are now paying the price.

History shows that outbreaks rarely have tidy conclusions.

Mourning the elderly lost to COVID-19.

Struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.

The deep, growing divisions in U.S. society have an outsize effect in determining who suffers from this pandemic—as well as how the government responds.

In the fight against COVID-19, weighing costs and benefits is indispensable for moral clarity. At the same time, we must not forget its limits.

Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children.

Crisis management only blurs ever more the boundary between politics and technical expertise.

What does solidarity look like when our bodies cannot come together, in public, to agitate for a better world?

Some have praised China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but its suppression of information helped cause the problem in the first place.

COVID-19 is having a disproportionate effect among vulnerable populations.

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

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.

The United States has never understood the connection between community and personal well-being.

Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. We must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.