Nature surrounds us, even in quarantine

House plants in pots with a bee sitting inside one of the flowers (Getty Images/Shraddha Dharmameher/FOAP)

Nature surrounds us, even in quarantine

Keith A. Spencer

Two new books revel in the evolutionary beauty of weeds, moths, and the quotidian insects that live in our homes

03/22/2020 19:30 EDT

The peril of state power amid COVID-19 pandemic

Michael Schulson

Governments have the power to control individual behaviors during coronavirus outbreak. How far should that go?

03/22/2020 18:59 EDT

For the rich, COVID-19 protections. For health workers, a shrug

Devi Sridhar

While COVID-19 testing and protections become “luxury” goods among the wealthy, health workers are left wanting

03/22/2020 14:35 EDT

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a town hall campaign event at the Rochester Opera House, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Bernie Sanders raises $2 million for coronavirus relief

Eoin Higgins

"Not Done Yet": The Bernie Sanders campaign puts its fundraising prowess to another purpose

03/22/2020 14:06 EDT

Person looking out at nature from their window (Getty Images/Salon)

There are no dolphins in Venice: But the vision of a better world may sustain us

Andrew O'Hehir

A visionary meme that moved the world was largely untrue — but the hope of transformation and redemption is real

03/22/2020 12:05 EDT

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

03/22/2020 11:29 EDT

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

03/22/2020 11:00 EDT

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

03/22/2020 10:00 EDT

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

03/22/2020 09:29 EDT

We have to stop comparing this coronavirus to the flu

Charles Ornstein

This coronavirus is unlike anything in our lifetime

03/22/2020 08:29 EDT

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

03/22/2020 08:00 EDT

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

03/22/2020 06:59 EDT

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

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

03/22/2020 06:00 EDT

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

03/22/2020 04:54 EDT

Jerry Falwell Jr. just unmasked social conservatism

John Stoehr

We owe Jerry Falwell Jr. a debt of gratitude

03/22/2020 04:43 EDT

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

03/21/2020 20:00 EDT

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

03/21/2020 18:54 EDT

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”

03/21/2020 16:29 EDT

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.

03/21/2020 14:59 EDT

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

03/21/2020 13:00 EDT

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.

03/21/2020 12:59 EDT

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

03/21/2020 12:08 EDT

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

03/21/2020 12:00 EDT

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

03/21/2020 11:56 EDT