How To Break the Covid Doom Loop
Are repetitive short lockdowns a viable way to tame Covid-19?
Read more...Category Archives: Pandemic
Brexit: Standoff
Will Johnson pull the Brexit plug today, or decide to fight another day?
Read more...Pandemics and Inequality: A Historical Overview
The record of pandemics past shows that only devastating mortality rates reduce inequality.
Read more...College Enrollments Drop Due to Covid, Adding to Budget Damage
College enrollments fall, consistent with predictions that Covid would hit them hard.
Read more...Why Saudi Arabia May Be Forced To Start Another Oil Price War
Poor oil price prospects may lead to another race to the bottom.
Read more...EU Wins WTO Ruling on Boeing Subsidies, Following WTO Ruling for the US on Airbus Subsidies. Tariff War On?
WTO rulings on tit-for-tat aircraft manufacturer disputes look likely to produce dueling tariffs at least in the near term.
Read more...Why the George Floyd Protests Succeeded Where Others Failed
Looking at what the George Floyd and later Black Lives Matter protests over the summer did right.
Read more...As Trump Touts His ‘Great’ COVID Drugs, the Pharma Cash Flows to Biden, Not Him
Despite a miracle COVID-19 cure Trump attributes to state-of-the-art drugs, Big Pharma sends its donations to Biden’s campaign.
Read more...Have the Democrats Risked Ruin by Increasing Vaccine Hesitancy in the Electorate?
The Precautionary Principle and the politics of vaccine development
Read more...Battle Rages Inside Hospitals Over How COVID Strikes and Kills: Aerosols or Droplets
The wonky, seemingly semantic debate over SARS-COV-2 transmission has a real-world impact on what sort of protective measures health care companies need to take to protect their patients and workers.
Read more...Pandemic Erects Barriers for Prized Bloc of Voters in Nursing Homes, Senior Facilities
How voters in retirement facilities are being disenfranchised.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?
Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.
Read more...‘A Definite and Sustained Increase’: Europe Leads Record Single-Day Worldwide Covid-19 Infection Surge
Europe reported nearly 100,000 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday—more than in the U.S., India, and Brazil, the world’s Covid-19 case leaders
Read more...New York City Seeks to Shortchange Teachers on $900 Million of Back Pay
Another sign of increasing budget problems in New York City.
Read more...Trump Shoots His Campaign in the Head
Trump is back to his usual self-destructive form.
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