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Topic: 2020 Global Pandemic

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 struggling during pandemic

Nicole Karlis
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
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)

How the coronavirus may upend democracy

Igor Derysh
Men up pole working on power lines (Getty Images)

Utility workers may sleep at work soon

Matthew Rozsa
Still life of a face mask on red background (Getty Images)

How scammers are exploiting COVID-19

Stacey Wood, Yaniv Hanoch, Marian Liu, David Hengerer
People scrolling through their phones (Getty Images)

Why crises make us information addicts

Catherine Franssen
In downtown Easton, Pennsylvania, the public square adjoining the Crayola factory is a hugely popular tourist attraction. On March 17, 2020, the streets and sidewalks were completely empty after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered a statewide shutdown over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (Nate Williams)

The new pace of life in America

Salon Staff
Ben Shapiro and Trish Regan (Michael S. Schwartz/Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Conservatives: COVID-19 not a big deal

Matthew Rozsa
Some commuters opt to wear respiratory masks during the afternoon commute at Montgomery BART station in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. On Wednesday, one person became the first victim in California to die from the coronavirus disease. Also, the first two cases in San Francisco were reported the following day. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

Coronavirus exposes class war in SF

Nicole Karlis
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)

Social distancing doesn't mean isolation

Nicole Karlis
President Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in the Oval Office after the House passed the $700 billion financial bailout bill at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. | US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak/Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Late capitalism primed us for pandemic

Bob Hennelly
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