New Yorkers Protest China’s COVID Lockdown And Government Repression
Chinese protesters in New York call for an end to China’s zero-COVID lockdowns and fear retaliation from the Chinese government even from thousands of miles away.
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Op-Ed: Masks Off? The Moral Logic of Living with COVID
What will we do the next time a virus comes for us?
Get Ready for a Government-Engineered Increase in Unemployment
The Federal Reserve’s plan to begin raising interest rates this month to fight inflation will harm millions of working class Americans. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of COVID
And sets the stage for future efforts to dismantle the “administrative state.”
COVID and the View from the Global South
While affluent Westerners have abandoned their offices during the pandemic to live and work from anywhere, residents of the Global South find their movements ever more restricted, says Indian writer Manvi Jalan.
Omicron Variant Underscores Why We Must Abolish Global Vaccine Apartheid
While politicians and commentators in the Global North wring their hands over fellow citizens who refuse vaccination, they show little concern for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who desperately want to get the vaccine but cannot do so.
Ready for a Fresh Start: NY Laundry Workers are Fighting to Clean Up the Industry
Immigrant workers and their allies are cleaning up an industry rife with wage theft and abusive working conditions.
Op-Ed: Rikers Island, a Longstanding Emergency That We Can End
The limelight is once again shining on the inhumane conditions at the notorious city jail. Two abolitionists explain how to shut down operations on the island without expanding NYC’s carceral system.
“The pandemic has re-doubled my commitment to my people,” a Havana doctor says amid shortages, protests.
De Blasio Cha-Cha Slides in Flatbush to Promote ‘Summer Rising’ Amid Teacher’s Union Concerns
On July 6, Mayor Bill de Blasio saw how low he and a group of elementary school kids could…