Amidst Coronavirus, It’s Time to Heal the U.S.’s Domestic and International...
It is in times of crisis, like the growing coronavirus pandemic, that deep structural inequities and the U.S. government’s mismanagement of funds are starkly revealed. Half of all Americans live...
View ArticleAn Often Overlooked Region of India is a Beacon to the World for Taking on...
K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has a population of 35 million people. On January 25, 2020, she convened...
View ArticleBlack Rock Profits in a Time of Crisis
With little government support and corporate accountability, humanitarian aid workers are scrambling to address the refugee crisis in the wake of the global pandemic, COVID-19 (coronavirus). The...
View ArticleIn a Pandemic, Workers Need Sick Leave…Now
Breathing hurts. The mound of tissues next to the groove you hollow into the couch grows faster than seems possible. Sound and light crash against your skull like hammers, so even binge-watching and...
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Traveling Fast and Silent: Mountain Biking With Grizzly Bears
The impacts of mountain bikers on wildlands and wildlife is at the center of a heated nation-wide debate fueled by increasing numbers of increasingly well-organized bikers intent on gaining access to...
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A Triage Crisis is Coming, and It’s Personal
Photograph Source: Otis Historical Archives Nat’l Museum of Health & Medicine – CC BY 2.0 I’m sitting here self-quarantined with my family in our 1738 stone farmhouse just north of Philadelphia....
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A Humanist Response, as a Self-Conscious Philosophy, to Pandemics
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam – Public Domain On March 13, the Government of India announced that it would cancel all visas until April 15 in an attempt to restrict international travel. The federal...
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Technology of Death: The Not-So-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
Photograph Source: Sgt. Paul L. Anstine III, U.S. Marine Corps – Public Domain The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless,...
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Climbing the Deadly Curves of COVID-19 and Capitalism
An embroidery work illustrating the early course of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States—more images of which are posted here at the Sidewalk Museum of Congress—follows the exponential growth...
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Our Leaders are Terrified. Not of the Virus – of Us
Photograph Source: Fars News Agency – CC BY 4.0 You can almost smell the fear-laden sweat oozing from the pores of television broadcasts and social media posts as it finally dawns on our political and...
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How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Left Italy Exposed
Photograph Source: Aeronautica Militare – CC BY 2.0 As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. The country’s death toll has...
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“In a Week We Will Be Italy”: NYC ER Doctor Says the U.S. Pandemic Will Only...
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View ArticlePrezdemic: Lines written in Quarantine
My interest in staying home is not you but me You are a possible contagion source and an end to me But I can also easily see you back at work for the economy Covid-19 erased with a sagacious...
View ArticleLutz Alone
Most musical instruments can be grabbed and taken along in the retreat into self-isolation—from the kazoo in the pocket to the violin slung over the shoulder. Others are more unwieldy. The tuba hardly...
View ArticleCoronavirus Spring
It’s Spring, and nature is blooming. Coronavirus has done (temporarily, at least) what no Paris Agreement, Green New Deal, man, woman or even that scrappy teen, Greta Thunberg (who may have also...
View ArticleThe King’s Speech: Soothing Royal Rhetoric on COVID-19
With the number of coronavirus infections and disease-related deaths rising rapidly in the Netherlands, Prime Minister Mark Rutte addressed the nation on March 16. “In the coming period, a large...
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Don’t Just Blame Trump for the COVID-19 Crisis: the U.S. Has Been Becoming a...
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. –Lao Tzu The prologue of our book, United States of Distraction, begins with that epigraph, and it is quite fitting for our times....
View ArticleFear and Loathing in Coronaville Volume 1: Dispatches From a Terrified Heartland
Being a certifiable agoraphobic basket case, you would think someone like me would be almost preternaturally suited for the stone blind isolation of fever fucked pandamania. And you would be completely...
View ArticleThe Propaganda Virus: Is Anyone Immune?
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle...
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An Age of Intoxication: Pick Your Poison
Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (1797) Humans have been...
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