Coronavirus

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What all these stories have in common is how unremarkable they are: this is contemporary global interchange at its most prosaic. Travel to and from countless other cities across Asia and Europe for business meetings and tourism follows a very similar pattern. Whereas the SARS outbreak was blamed on the peculiar, outlandish diets of the Cantonese people and then traveled through the elite cosmopolitan links between major Asian cities, the so-called “Wuhan virus” points to the utterly mundane way that countless nodal points around the world, including “second-tier” Chinese cities, are interwo...

On March 25th, N.Y. Times op-ed columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote about “How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of a 75-Cent Face Mask.” The subtitle certainly went against the grain of what you’d read from a page dominated by Thomas Friedman: “A very American story about capitalism consuming our national preparedness and resiliency.” Manjoo identified More

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Words have meaning. We are not at war. We're in a pandemic. We are not soldiers. We are citizens. We do not want to be governed as in war, but as in a pandemic. Solidarity and care must be instituted as the cardinal principles of our lives. Solidarity and care. Not martial and warlike values.

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The Pentagon warned the White House about a shortage of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds in 2017—but the Trump administration did nothing.

I GOT SICK IN PARIS on Wednesday, March 11, before the French government ordered the confinement of the population, and when I got up on March 19, a bit more than a week later, the world had changed. When I went to my bed, the world was close, collective, viscous, and dirty. When I got out of bed, it had become distant, individual, dry, and hygienic. During the sickness, I was unable to assess what was happening from a political and economic point of view because the fever and the discomfort took hold of my vital energy. No one can be philosophical with an exploding head. From time to time, I

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With the coronavirus, we are really trying to mitigate the revenge blow from nature. It’s a moment to be humble and realise our finitude in a wondrous and infinite natural order.

Obviously, the situation associated with the sudden appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 pandemic is grim all over the world. Both the causes and the consequences are closely related to…

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I spoke up for safety at an Amazon warehouse. Unfortunately I believe it cost me my job

You live in a cramped apartment and you’re scared. But escape is selfish.

The disparity in who has access to coronavirus tests is just the beginning.

The combination of plutocratic bailouts and a physically endangered working class is sparking a new blue-collar militancy.

Freud himself equated psychoanalysis with the plague.

Many hospitals bar doctors and other staff members from wearing protective masks in public areas. Some have been disciplined for pushing back.

ER nurse John Pearson, former Amazon employee Christian Smalls, and journalists Meagan Day and David Dayen are this week’s guests.

Governments and bosses claim to be at war with coronavirus. In reality, it is a war against our social class that they are waging. A war against us for

El sociólogo francés es uno de los últimos supervivientes de una generación que marcó el pensamiento Occidental. Dice que ahora siente un gran vacío

In the age of COVID-19, anything other than ending deportations is a high-risk, potentially disastrous move.

This is the first in a series of updates by the AALL FCIL-SIS Latin American Law Interest Group and Latino Caucus in a project monitoring COVID-19 legal responses in the Latin America and Caribbean…

Activists and researchers from across Africa speak about the impact of Covid-19 on their countries. Writing from Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Nigeria and Zimbabwe, Femi Aborisade, Heike Becker, Didier Kiendrebeogo, Gacheke Gachihi, Lena Anyuolo and Tafadzwa Choto look at how the crisis is taking shape – how governments are using the virus as a cover for wider repression, and the broader context of capitalism, climate change and popular struggles for radical change.

Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap.

Progressive ideas on housing, health care access, wage subsidies, and more are entering the mainstream at a startling pace.

The governor’s position on health care spending looked starkly different a couple of months ago.

You wrote in a recent article: “The coronavirus was the spark or trigger of the stockmarket crisis, not its cause.” Can you be more specific? (...)