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Author Max Brooks on America’s poor pandemic response and why Donald Trump is “a homicidal buffoon”
Chauncey DeVega
The "Devolution" author spoke to Salon about how ill-equipped privileged people are for dealing with disasters
One-third of the prisoners in California’s San Quentin State Prison have coronavirus
Nicole Karlis
Public health experts feared a prison coronavirus outbreak would be a nightmare scenario. They were right
Some scientists believe coronavirus spreads through air much more readily than previous thought
Matthew Rozsa
A group of scientists contends the novel coronavirus spreads through aerosolization. The WHO doesn't agree
Donald Trump’s re-election bet: American voters are still racist at heart
Amanda Marcotte
Polling data shows both Trump and racism are unpopular — but he's going all-in on faith the polls are wrong
Furious Trump tells followers to turn off Fox News after poll shows him losing in six swing states
Igor Derysh
Trump insists that he is “leading in the REAL polls” as he accuses the network of pushing “phony suppression polls”
DOT wants to weaken its own power to penalize airlines over consumer complaints
Amy Martyn
Under Elaine Chao, the agency already is taking a more hands-off approach to complaints by air travelers
Republican attorneys general group launches race-baiting ad campaign against “lawless liberals”
Roger Sollenberger
For decades, the groups dedicated to electing attorneys general agreed not to attack incumbents. No longer
Money talks: Big business, political strategy and corporate involvement in U.S. state politics
Richard A. Devine, Michael Holmes
Millions of dollars are spent every election by corporations that want to influence state regulations and policies
Hollowed-out public health system faces more cuts amid coronavirus crisis
Lauren Weber, Laura Ungar, Michelle R. Smith
The U.S. public health system lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century.
Trump administration uses faulty data to speed up meatpacking production
Sarah Okeson
More than 1,100 hogs slaughtered every hour as the pandemic cuts a deadly swath through the workforce
Amid deadly virus, a push for nursing home alternatives
Michael Schulson
Nursing home deaths have critics saying it’s time to rethink the institutional model for elder care
Trump scrambles to explain how he can still win in the face of devastating new Fox News poll
Sarah K Burris
Trump is still frustrated with the last polls showing Biden winning
Contracts show Trump giving Big Pharma free rein to price gouge taxpayer-funded coronavirus drugs
Jake Johnson
"The amount of money the government is throwing at companies is unprecedented."
We won’t have a truly global economy until people start taxing it that way
Marshall Auerback
Reconstructing our tax system is an integral part of future national industrial policy as we restart the economy
Texas Republicans to hold in-person Republican convention in Houston
Cassandra Pollock
Texas GOP will proceed with in-person state convention in Houston this month
Republicans’ internal polls predict a “Democratic rout” this fall: Election analyst
Matthew Chapman
"Public polling showing Democrats doing well is backed up by what the parties are seeing in their own numbers”
The shocking number of snakes traded internationally each year
John R. Platt
A new study digs into the market for endangered and threatened snakes
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum
Risk of viruses jumping from animals to humans increases as deforestation brings people closer to natural habitats
Susan Collins’ July 4th tweet blows up in her face in spectacular fashion
Matthew Chapman
Sen. Susan Collins, R-ME, tweeted her concern for small businesses in Maine that are suffering
Protest music has come “roaring back to life” when we need it most
Ashlie D. Stevens
While protest songs never went away, the nationwide awakening to civil rights has created a need for new voices
COVID-19 means good times for the Pentagon
Mandy Smithberger
How to vaccinate the military-industrial complex
Hospital executive charged in $1.4B rural hospital billing scheme
Lauren Weber, Barbara Feder Ostrov
A Miami entrepreneur was charged in what federal prosecutors called a $1.4 billion fraudulent lab-billing scheme
Activists shut down these cancer-causing plants. COVID is bringing them back
Susan Cosier
A common chemical used to sterilize medical equipment is poisoning communities around the U.S.
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