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A woman wears a medical mask on the subway as New York City confronts the coronavirus outbreak on March 11, 2020 in New York City. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday evening that he is restricting passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. in an effort to contain the coronavirus which is rapidly spreading throughout the world and America. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

COVID-19 and the U.S.: What lies ahead

Uwe Bott - The Globalist

Six concrete steps the U.S. federal government ought to mandate right now to protect people’s economic livelihood

Bob Dylan performs on stage (Joseph Okpako/Redferns)

Dylan's new epic: From JFK to pandemic

David Masciotra

What is the American bard driving at with a 17-minute song on the JFK assassination? David Talbot thinks he knows

"Kim's Convenience," "Absurd Planet," "#blackAF," "The Willoughbys" (Netflix)

What's new on Netflix in April

Ashlie D. Stevens

April showers you with true crime docs, innovative sketch comedy, a weird nature show, comedies, movies, and more

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

Revisiting Nellie McKay's debut album

Kenneth Womack

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

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In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, a cash register terminal promotes usage of the new Apple Pay mobile payment system at a Whole Foods store in Cupertino, Calif. The new system launches on Monday. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (AP)

COVID-19 has led to a cash-flow gap

Matthäus Tekathen - The Conversation

Businesses need to take instant action to prevent cash-flow insolvencies in the midst of COVID-19

Donald Trump (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Trump quietly fires Inspector General

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

While the country is distracted by COVID-19, Trump abruptly dismisses the intelligence community inspector general

2/13/1919 - Seattle, Washington- A general view of the Seattle strike ( Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

How a general strike would play out

Matthew Rozsa

As the pandemic decimates the economy, speculation abounds that the US may be due for an unprecedented labor action

U.S. President Donald Trump vs The Women's March (Getty Images/Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Chip Somodevilla)

Feminism in the time of coronavirus

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com

We could hardly be in a more unsettled moment on a more unsettled planet.

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US Supreme Court (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images/)

Judges likely to play role in elections

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute

Court’s actions in Wisconsin suggest federal courts are reluctant to reverse decisions by state authorities

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2015 image made from video, an endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle swims as it is released into the Gulf of Mexico, 24 miles off the coast of Louisiana, after being rehabilitated by the Audubon Institute. After the spill, the number of the turtles' nests dropped 40 percent in one year in 2010. "We had never seen a drop that dramatic in one year before," according to Selina Saville Heppell, a professor at Oregon State University. The population climbed in 2011 and 2012 but then fell again in 2013 and 2014, down to levels that haven't been that low in nearly a decade, she said. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (AP)

Freshwater species are disappearing fast

Tara Lohan - The Revelator

Scientists and policymakers have developed a time-sensitive plan to help save ailing freshwater ecosystems

Donald Trump (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump is prepping a dictatorship

Lucian K. Truscott IV

We can beat this lying bastard if we get angry and stay angry — thousands of bodies should be reason enough

Jill Mickelson helps a drive up voter outside the Frank P. Zeidler Municipal Building Monday March 30, 2020, in Milwaukee. The city is now allowing drive up early voting for the state's April 7 election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Can we vote this year? Definitely

Rob Richie, David Daley

Voting by mail and ranked-choice voting make it much easier to adapt to the unexpected. Some states were ready

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Laura Ingraham (Getty/Don Emmert/Chip Somodevilla)

AOC slaps down Ingraham

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

Fox News host tried to belittle Ocasio-Cortez by reminding her followers the lawmaker once worked as a bartender

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Staggering jobless numbers

David Cay Johnston - DCReport

The official 3.3 million unemployment claims vastly undercounts people out of work

Tired man sitting at his computer (Getty Images/Eugenio Marongiu)

Zoom fatigue is real, and I'm exhausted

Mary Elizabeth Williams

I need to see my friends, but teleconferencing is wearing me out

Jodie Griffin suffers from unpredictable episodes of losing consciousness. Her medical alert dog, Nimbus, was trained to alert to the scent she emits before an episode. She says he has changed her life, allowing her to go out in the world without fear of collapsing without warning. (Jodie Griffin)

Can dogs sniff out coronavirus?

Maria Goodavage

Paging doctor Rover: Dogs can sniff out cancer and low blood sugar. Can they help with this human pandemic?

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Brooklyn Prince in "Home Before Dark" (Apple TV+)

Home Before Dark, an empowering mystery

Melanie McFarland

Apple TV+'s new series is based on the real-life kid journalist who scooped her local paper reporting on a murder

White House adviser Jared Kushner speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kushner team a "frat party": official

Igor Derysh

One official described the team as a “frat party” that “descended from a UFO and invaded the federal government"

U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Loeffler faces new insider trading claim

Matthew Rozsa

This is not the first transaction by Loeffler and her husband to raise allegations of possible insider trading

President Donald Trump speaks in an address to the nation from the Oval Office at the White House about the coronavirus Wednesday, March, 11, 2020, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Trump admin. guts paid leave provision

Igor Derysh

The administration also excluded some health workers and first responders from being eligible for paid leave

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Sean Hannity, Donald Trump and Laura Ingraham | A box of Plaquenil (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Behind the right's miracle-cure mania

Amanda Marcotte

The conservative run on antimalarial drugs, sparked by Trump, is also about deep-rooted hostility to public health

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Kushner firm may benefit COVID-19 relief

Igor Derysh

Firm may be eligible to benefit from a provision intended to help low-income renters — even if it has money to pay

Tucker Carlson on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Fox News)

Tucker questions role of health officers

Matthew Rozsa

"This is a democracy," Carlson told Fox News viewers. "It is our job"

Jess Sessions and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Trump campaign: Sessions is "delusional"

Matthew Rozsa

"We only assume your campaign is doing this to confuse President Trump's loyal supporters in Alabama"

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