Phara Souffrant Forrest: Chronic Understaffing Continues to Plague NY Hospitals
The nurse and candidate for central Brooklyn’s 57th Assembly District calls for mandated safe staffing ratios that will save lives.
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Samelys López: We Need Public Medicine for Public Health
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how broken healthcare is in the Bronx and all around the United States. Big…
CUNY Students Cope with COVID Fallout
As May came to a close, final exams were the least of Abrar Rahman’s worries. Rahman, a rising junior…
A Mutual Aid Network Blooms in Bay Ridge
In organizational theory, mutual aid means the exchange of services or resources in which both parties benefit. Mutual aid…
Contact Tracing: Is Our Data Safe in Bloomberg’s Hands?
The former mayor’s history of stop and frisk and surveillance raises troubling concerns.
COVID & George Floyd Killing Reveal a Failed State That Only Knows How to Police
The failure of our governments — local, state, national — to address COVID-19 with any real rigor is the…
Now is the Time to Pass the New York Health Act
“Now is not the time.” Leaders and opinion writers utter this sentence so often after mass shootings in the…
Anti-Social-Distancing Rallies: Corona Protests Are Mainstreaming Far-Right Ideologies
Amid a sea of yellow vests, Guy Fawkes masks, and German flags, two signs caught the camera’s eye at…
Op-Ed: Cuomo and de Blasio Must Be Held Accountable for Pandemic Destruction
I was in my hometown Guangzhou, China in late January, during the initial outbreak of coronavirus. One day after…
Environmental Violence is the Modern War Against Indigenous People
As Indian nations are battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, many are simultaneously battling ecological brutality brought about by governments…
