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Timeline: How US crisis was man-made

Dan Benbow - Raw Story

Failures of governance from Jan 3 until March 13 made the situation exponentially worse than it should have been

Robert Reich | Registered nurses and health care workers protest a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) available for frontline workers amid the coronavirus pandemic (Win McNamee/Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Reich: Oligarchs "cashing in" on COVID

Keith A. Spencer

In an exclusive interview, the former labor secretary talks about his new book and pandemic economics

Projected design for new student housing at University of California, Santa Cruz / Strike picket signs (UC Santa Cruz/AP Photo/Salon)

Coronavirus and the housing crisis

Isabel Solange Muñoz - The Conversation

Millions of Americans are now unemployed and must scramble to figure out how to pay for their home

President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Numbers show how Trump worsened crisis

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

The timeline is damning for Trump

Stock Market Arrow Graph Going Down (Getty Images)

Managing a 401(k) during a recession

Jackie Lam

If you're looking at your portfolio and cringing, don't panic yet — here's what you can do

Riot police officers wearing face masks stand guard as residents protest against plans for an empty local housing estate to become a temporary quarantine camp for patients and frontline medical staff of a SARS-like virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the Fanling district in Hong Kong on January 26, 2020. - Protesters threw petrol bombs on January 26 night at an empty public housing complex in Hong Kong that had been earmarked to become a temporary quarantine zone as the city battles the outbreak of a SARS-like virus. (PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

Policing during a pandemic

Tom Nolan - The Conversation

With officers being hit by illness, arrests have dropped during the coronavirus crisis.

This Dec. 17, 2016 photo shows a Donald Trump campaign sign along a highway near Los Banos, Calif. A California farmer says Donald Trump's campaign vow to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally pushed him into buying more equipment, cutting the number of workers he’ll need during the next harvest. Others in California's farming industry say Trump's tough campaign talk targeting immigrants in the country illegally, including a vast number of farmworkers, spurred them into action, too. (AP Photo/Scott Smith) (AP)

The power of "plantibodies"

Marnie Willman - Massive Science

"Plantibodies" represent a new avenue for treatments against fast moving viruses like influenza or coronavirus

Thresher harvesting wheat (Getty Images)

Food, faith & farming in the apocalypse

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Here's what Christian farmers I know think about COVID-19, and how it might bring America together

A man wearing a respirator walks through an eerily empty Times Square in New York, the United States, March 26, 2020 (Xinhua/M IchaelNagle/wangying via Getty Images)

The pandemic is slowing down the world

David Cay Johnston - DCReport

It’s giving the Earth a much-needed break from climate-wrecking CO2 emissions

Checkerboard Pizza / Photo by Alan Weiner

Secrets to making a great pizza at home

Joseph Neese

Ken Forkish, the James Beard Award-winning author of “Flour Water Salt Yeast,” gives a crash course in pizza making

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Susan Walsh)

Trump forces GOP to retool 2020 message

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

Republican leaders furious with Trump for blowing up their key campaign talking point before the 2020 election

Everyone Can Bake by Dominique Ansel (Simon & Schuster/Evan Sung)

Dominique Ansel's go-to caramel sauce

Dominique Ansel

The best thing about this caramel is its texture — rich, smooth, a little chewy and very satisfying

Kate McKinnon on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)

"SNL" sans audience? Honestly, it works

Melanie McFarland

Plus, late-night hosts' transition to at-home programming is warm, charming, and highlights their true skill

A sign tells customers that all N95 protective masks are sold out at Marin Ace Hardware on March 02, 2020 in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

N95 contract awarded to bankrupt company

Roger Sollenberger

A combination of demand and the government’s laggard response has chummed the market for protective medical gear

(Scott MacAllister, courtesy of the Cape Cod Commercial Fisherman's Alliance)

Sink or swim for America's fishermen

Meg Wilcox - Civil Eats

With restaurants and international markets disappearing, it’s sink or swim for the nation’s fishermen.

Metallic distillery vats | Palmer's Hand Sanitizer (Getty Images/Palmer Distilling)

"To your health" has a new meaning now

Mary Elizabeth Williams

"It's a complete game-changer," said Jose Class of Bacardi. The venerable rum maker is one of many switching gears

In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014,  a woman prisoner suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, from Tubmanburg central prison, is pushed in a wheelchair towards a medical vehicle,  to be taken to an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. The Ebola outbreak has spawned a “silent killer,” experts say: hidden cases of malaria, pneumonia, typhoid and the like that are going untreated because people in the countries hardest hit by Ebola either cannot find an open clinic or are too afraid to go to one. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh) (AP)

New disease stalls efforts to fight old

Lynne Peeples - Undark

COVID-19 has derailed immunization efforts for measles, polio, and other scourges, worrying global health experts.

(AP/Getty/Salon)

Might the coronavirus be a peacemaker?

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com

Imagine a post-coronavirus planet on which the U.S. military is no longer the sinkhole of taxpayer dollars

A gas flare at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 in Williston, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

"We will disappear as an industry"

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist

"If the Texas Railroad Commission does not regulate long term, we will disappear as an industry," said one CEO

US President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump is mentally ill: Say it loud!

David Masciotra

Rational Americans already understand that our president is mentally ill. Will Democrats ever speak truth to power?

Inside the Beatles’ breakup

Tim Riley - The Conversation

Unbridled ambition and bruised egos created an irreparable fissure.

Selah and the Spades (Amazon)

In "Selah," black kids run their world

Priscilla Ward

"I was tired of seeing black people get caught," Tayarisha Poe says about her new boarding school-set Amazon film

Sheltering In Place with Classic Albums (Getty Images/Salon)

George Harrison's 1970 solo album, today

Kenneth Womack

We're sheltering in place with a different classic album each week, in search of solid music for uncertain times

Public hospital health workers (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Hospitals lay off thousands amid crisis

Igor Derysh

Thousands of medical workers are out of a job as the crisis exposes the perils of the for-profit health care system

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