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FILE – In this Oct. 23, 2015, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a balanced budget discussion with business leaders in Manchester, N.H. As the U.S. national debt ticks toward $20 trillion, Kasich says he is not abandoning his goal of a federal balanced-budget amendment, telling The Associated Press in a Tuesday, March 21, 2017, interview that the issue isn't partisan but critical to sustained economic prosperity. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) (AP)

Years of austerity weakened the public health response to coronavirus

Mike Ludwig
Public health accounts for less than 3 percent of overall health expenditures
Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images/TBS/John Filo/CBS/Lloyd Bishop/NBC/HBO)

How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses

Sophia A. McClennen
COVID-19 isn't funny. But making fun of dangerous and stupid political and public responses is important
An activist shows sex workers how to apply hand sanitizer during an awareness campaign to promote safe measures against the spread of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images)

Sex workers are stressed, anxious and depressed amid COVID-19 pandemic

Nicole Karlis
As the novel coronavirus causes significant income loss, many sex workers have no safety net
Immigration Detention Center (J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images)

Calls for Trump administration to release migrants from detention increase amid COVID-19 pandemic

Julián Aguilar
Federal agencies put immigrants and immigration workers at risk amid coronavirus
(Getty/Koldunova_Anna)

We have to stop comparing this coronavirus to the flu

Charles Ornstein
This coronavirus is unlike anything in our lifetime
US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening Coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

A revolution by pandemic

Bob Hennelly
The coronavirus pandemic raises questions as to whether capitalism has failed
In this June 10, 2016 photo provided by the Mayo Clinic, a medical team of about 60 doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and others at Mayo Clinic gather before performing the first face transplant surgery at their hospital in Rochester, Minn. Mardini and his team devoted more than 50 Saturdays over 3 1/2 years to rehearsing the procedure, using sets of cadaver heads to transplant the face of one to another. They used 3D imaging and virtual surgery to plot out the bony cuts so the donor's face would fit perfectly on Andy Sandness. (Michael Cleary/Mayo Clinic via AP) (AP)

Coronavirus pandemic makes the perfect case for shortening medical education

Anuska Jain, Robert Orr
The impacts of physician shortages are evident throughout the U.S. health care system
Fracking Drilling Rig at the Golden Hour (Getty Images)

With oil prices falling amid the COVID-19 recession, it’s the beginning of the end for fracking

Juan Cole
With prices plunging, the entire oil industry is in peril. What's bad for investors is good for the planet
U.S. Attorney General William Barr (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Conservatives push back on Bill Barr’s reported plan to detain indefinitely without a trial

Eoin Higgins
DOJ Using Coronavirus Crisis to Push for Expansive Emergency Powers
Jerry Falwell, Jr. (Getty/John Moore)

Jerry Falwell Jr. just unmasked social conservatism

John Stoehr
We owe Jerry Falwell Jr. a debt of gratitude
A close up of President Donald J. Trump's notes shows where Corona was crossed out "Corona" and replaced with "Chinese" Virus (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Don’t just debunk COVID-19 myths. Learn from them

Anita Makri
The tactic of simply throwing facts at the misinformation problem can be ineffective, and even counterproductive
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear discusses developments in Kentucky regarding the new coronavirus in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

“Govern me, daddy”: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear a clean-cut sex symbol for the coronavirus age

Erin Keane
People are now lusting after Kentucky's "hot Mr. Rogers" because of his calm and empathetic leadership
(AP/Mark Lennihan)

CNN reporter says she was subjected to appalling anti-Asian slur: “I couldn’t believe it”

Alex Henderson
That is something that I have not experienced in a very, very long time in this country”
FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2014, file photo, inmates wait to enter their assigned cell block after arriving at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. Corrections officials are proposing new sentencing rules that aim to trim California's prison population by nearly 2,000 inmates in the first year and by 9,500 inmates after four years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

If social distancing is impossible in prisons, people should be freed

Victoria Law
So far, no state governor has responded to the call for releasing the most vulnerable people from prison.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. right, listens to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, speak about the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S., during their joint news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Abbott was in Washington with Cruz to support a bill Cruz has introduced in Congress banning any refugees from Iraq, Syria or other countries deemed to be controlled by a foreign terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

“Unsupported and ignored”: Texans stuck in Peru say U.S. government has abandoned them

Jay Root, SHANNON NAJMABADI
Texans marooned there after the country closed its borders described a harrowing ordeal trying to find a plane
A worker removes the flowers from a wreath in Athens, Friday, July 17, 2015. Funeral homes here are struggling to cope with banking restrictions _ with a modest funeral costing more the 15 times the daily ATM withdrawal limit _ in a country that traditionally carries out funerals shortly after death and almost everything is paid for in cash. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) (AP)

Facing coronavirus at the funeral home: Families forced to ponder death due to COVID-19

JoNel Aleccia
Funeral homes are implementing even stricter protocols to handle bodies infected with the novel coronavirus.
Tabulators work on recounting presidential ballots in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty/Andy Manis)

Why nationwide voting by mail isn’t a panacea in a pandemic

Steven Rosenfeld
Many legal, technical, logistical and political obstacles stand between now and November’s election
Tattered American flag flapping in ominous sky (Getty Images)

Home of the brave? Coronavirus epidemic reveals America’s fundamental weakness

David Masciotra
Despite America's national mythology, this crisis has revealed a weak, divided and totally unprepared nation
AP File Photo: Kenny Rogers Has Passed Away at 81. AUGUST 14: Kenny Rogers performs at Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia on August 14, 2002. (AP/ Chris McKay / MediaPunch /IPX)

Kenny Rogers, country music’s “The Gambler,” dead at 81

Stephen L. Betts
Rogers was one of music’s true crossover artists, scoring hits in both country and pop
A worker gets ready to pass out instructions on how to fill out the 2020 census during a town hall meeting in Lithonia, Ga. (AP Photo/John Amis)

The coronavirus is upending the Census — and that could undermine democracy for a decade

Igor Derysh
"The risk of being undercounted disproportionately falls on communities of color," a letter from Democrats read
Robert Reich; Donald Trump (Getty/AP/Salon)

Robert Reich: What’s missing from the coronavirus bill

Robert Reich
Trickle-down economics and trickle-down public health are deeply flawed. Corporate tax cuts won’t save us.
Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Hoarding in a pandemic: A problem of messaging, selfishness, or simply fear?

FairWarning Staff
Americans have been told to stop hoarding and also told to limit public interaction, are these contradictory?
Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump can f**k this up and still win in November: Here’s how to stop him

Lucian K. Truscott IV
His performance with his “task force” is an act. He isn’t presidential. He’s the same psychotic monster as always
Donald Trump; Xavier Becerra (AP/Evan Vucci/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The high cost of being Trump’s enemy in the coronavirus era

Rachel Bluth
California's total tab for its feud with the Oval Office is at least in the hundreds of millions
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