Harmoniously Denied: The Wider Implications of China’s Censorship on COVID-19
How China’s Covid-19 censorship illustrates how Chinese citizens have internalized what were once top-down controls.
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Is the Tara Reade Story Approaching Critical Mass?
Biden is feeling enough heat about the Tara Reade rape accusation that he’s appearing on Morning Joe today. But can he make the story go away?
Read more...The Price of Meat
Meat and the rights of meatpackers have come to the fore.
Read more...Inequality and the Coronavirus: Destroying American Society From the Top Down
Coronavirus is exposing the severity of inequality in the US, particulary limited access to health care and the health costs of poverty.
Read more...Mutual Aid Volunteers Are Mobilizing to Help the Most Vulnerable Communities to Deal With Coronavirus
How the DSA and other groups are providing coronavirus relief.
Read more...#DemExit Now: How the Democratic Party Cheated Bernie Sanders Out of the Nomination
How the Dems played dirty with Sanders.
Read more...The New Fault Lines in a Post-Globalized World
Coronavirus is smashing up the economic and political order. What sort of world comes next?
Read more...CSA: How to Support Local Farmers as Restaurants and Farmers Markets Close
As the virus has small, local farms scrambling for income streams, community-supported agriculture (CSA) is one way to support them.
Read more...Somebody Needs to Tell Chuck Schumer that the Entire Working Class Is “Heroic,” Not Just “Essential Workers”
Schumer’s “Heroes Fund” would create a new labor aristocracy
Read more...The Coming Battle for the COVID-19 Narrative
Will the disruption of Covid-19 deal a major blow to market ideology?
Read more...Coronavirus: A Theory of Incompetence
Coronavirus has shredded the last vestiges of the belief that America was well run. How did we get here?
Read more...The New Inequalities and People-to-People Social Protection
Yves here. On the one hand, this post contains many examples of how people with resources are assisting those hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. On the other, it is also all too apparent that in most cases, these charitable acts only make a dent in the problems most face, although admittedly shows of concern […]
Read more...Coronavirus, Control, Irritability, and Guilt
A coronavirus confessional of sorts.
Read more...Having It Easy in the Beginning, Tough in the End: How My Dad Predicted the Decline of America
This should be a time for a genuinely new approach, one fit for a world of rising disruption and disaster, one that would define a new, more democratic, less bellicose America.
Read more...Four Ways You Can Take Caring Action Around Coronavirus – Even if You’re Overwhelmed
Some coronavirus coping and action strategies.
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