Jair Bolsonaro Let Coronavirus Ravage Brazil. A Favela Is Taking Matters Into Its Own Hands.
A neighborhood association in Brazil’s most densely populated favela set up an informal emergency-care system to reduce the harm caused by the coronavirus.
The Coronavirus Crisis
As markets recover, Big Pharma gains power, and governments around the world scramble to contain the pandemic, predatory capitalism moves in for the kill.
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Hidden Video and Whistleblower Reveal Gruesome Mass-Extermination Method for Iowa Pigs Amid Pandemic
Pigs are being slowly suffocated and roasted to death by an agricultural industry that relies on secrecy.
As Coronavirus Spreads in Federal Prisons, Cases in Halfway Houses Are Being Undercounted
People at residential reentry centers say the Bureau of Prisons is compounding the risks of the virus through mismanagement, intransigence, and retaliation.
Deconstructed Podcast
100,000 Are Dead From Coronavirus. What Happens Next?
Mehdi Hasan and Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves discuss the future of the battle against Covid-19.
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It’s Official: 100,000 Are Dead of Covid-19 in America, and Their Blood Is on Trump’s Hands
Most of the coronavirus deaths could have been avoided if Trump had enacted social-distancing measures sooner.
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New York Appealed to Keep an Elderly Prisoner Behind Bars — Then He Got Coronavirus
Muntaqim, after a half-century behind bars, posed no risk to society, so a judge ordered him free. But the government’s appeal instead risked his life.
How the Fed Bailed Out the Investor Class Without Spending a Cent
Just announcing $4.5 trillion in future spending to support securities markets was enough to keep investors protected from the downsides of the pandemic.
Despite the Hype, Gilead's Remdesivir Will Do Nothing to End the Coronavirus Pandemic
A combination of generic drugs appears to be more effective in fighting the coronavirus than Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir.
Corporate Immunity, Mitch McConnell’s Priority for Coronavirus Relief, Is a Longtime Focus of the Conservative Right
ALEC, a Koch-backed group that drafts model bills for state legislators, has pushed corporate immunity measures on the state level since the early 2000s.
Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance
A crop of “new” body-worn devices issue alerts about hospital patients, the quarantined, people under house arrest, and workers who fail to social distance.