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Masks off: The lessons we didn’t learn from COVID

Carlyn Zwarenstein
The pandemic accelerated economic disparity, revealing a disturbing acceptance of mass death. Did we learn nothing?

How do we know what is true? In an age of war, pandemic and conspiracy theory, it’s not easy

Richard Eckersley
To survive this crucial century, we need to solve the problem of truth. That may be our biggest single challenge

Mission not accomplished, Joe: Despite declaring victory over COVID, health care is code blue

Bob Hennelly
The national public health dashboard is blinking hazards ahead

In the hospital, with no staff in sight

D. Watkins
Where are the workers? They're tired and fed up. Is it any wonder we have so many essential jobs unfilled?

Behind the mask: How racism shaped attitudes on the pandemic

Chauncey DeVega
White people began believing COVID wasn't their problem, research shows — and that made the pandemic much worse

Right-wing media and the pandemic: A toxic feedback loop that nurtured fascism

Chauncey DeVega
American ignorance and paranoia were already there. Then Trump, Fox News and the virus exploited them to the max

Dumbass nation: Our biggest national security problem is America’s “vast and militant ignorance”

Brian Karem
Millions of Americans embrace vapid lies and conspiracy theories — and the proudly moronic leader who spreads them

Road to nowhere: Oklahoma’s Donald J. Trump Highway runs through the Dust Bowl

Russell Cobb
Trump got 92% of the vote in desolate Cimarron County, Oklahoma. But locals remain skeptical, about everything

9/11 brought Americans together. Why is the pandemic tearing them apart?

Nicole Karlis
America missed its pandemic kumbaya moment. Disaster resilience researchers think they know why

As the right ramps up the cruelty and dread, it’s time to stay clear-headed — and fight back

Chauncey DeVega
The Supreme Court's late-night eviction decision was no anomaly — it's part of a blitzkrieg against democracy

Why Americans hate and fear the poor: Joanne Samuel Goldblum on the price of inequality

Chauncey DeVega
Another side effect of the pandemic: Many more Americans are aware how stressful and exhausting it is to be poor

This plague next time: Public health scholar Nicholas Christakis on the pandemic’s harsh lessons

Chauncey DeVega
"We should be ashamed as a nation," says Yale scholar. And COVID wasn't the worst-case scenario by a long shot

“I don’t want to be L. Ron Hubbard”: Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book “Project Hail Mary”

Chauncey DeVega
"The Martian" author spoke to Salon about what inspired his new sci-fi novel, driving plots and scientific optimism

How patent laws are hindering the fight against COVID-19

Matthew Rozsa
A handful of pharmaceutical companies use patent laws to limit supply when the world most needs their drugs

The GOP’s Ayn Rand death cult: Trump’s party is literally killing the American people

Chauncey DeVega
Imagining themselves as virile heroes from Ayn Rand's terrible books, Republicans have become the pro-death party

Lancet editor says inequality and COVID-19 have converged to create a “syndemic”

Matthew Rozsa
Dr. Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, says we face a crisis that is biological as well as social

Elizabeth Warren destroys CNBC host over two-cent wealth tax criticism

Kenny Stancil
Massachusetts senator to TV biz-show host: "How about a counter-argument ... that's based on fact?"

Income inequality is out of control. Economists fear Biden won’t do enough to fix it

Matthew Rozsa
Based on his appointments, economists fear Biden may merely re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic

How socialism made the COVID-19 vaccines possible

Alex Henderson
The COVID-19 vaccines are a "triumph for capitalism" that relied heavily on "years of public-sector funding"

People didn’t used to be “consumers.” What happened?

Kate Yoder
Shoppers, profits, growth: Why marketing-speak is bad for the planet.

Donald Trump’s herd immunity: Who’s the real “enemy of the people”?

Chauncey DeVega
It's clearer than ever that Trump was happy to see people die. His assault on public health can't be forgotten

Giuliani says he didn’t know most Americans can’t access his VIP coronavirus treatment regimen

Matthew Rozsa
Even after being hospitalized for coronavirus, Giuliani was clueless about the virus and its treatment

This Thanksgiving holiday, we “celebrate” America’s departure from reality

David Masciotra
Donald Trump's delusions and conspiracy theories are only one aspect of a distinctive American bias against reality
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