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With Patents on Coronavirus Medicines, International Drug Companies Will Decide Whether Brazilians Live or Die
U.S. and European drug companies will hold monopoly power over coronavirus medicines for years — straining health care systems of countries like Brazil.
Trump’s Nationalism Advances on a Predictable Trajectory to Violence. His Supporters Will Kill When They’re Told To.
Those who survived the bloody undoing of Yugoslavia saw the havoc nationalism can wreak. It is hard not to worry about its symptoms now.
Coronavirus Has Mexico's Workers Pinned Between U.S. Business Interests and Their President's Obsessive Austerity
The pandemic has been used to restrict immigration, violate labor rights, protect defense contractors, and double down on dangerous political rhetoric.
Boris Johnson's Coronavirus Lies Are Killing Britons
The British government’s failure to provide sufficient protective gear was preventable, and two investigations have revealed attempts to cover it up.
Watch: The Grave, Three-Pronged Crisis Crippling Brazil and Imperiling the Bolsonaro Presidency
The confluence of these crises has placed Brazil in the greatest turmoil and danger since its 1985 redemocratization.
Sen. Josh Hawley Is Cast as a GOP Leader After Trump. But Like Trump, He’s a Faux-Populist.
The face of Trumpism after Trump, Hawley is a fraud — a right-winger pretending to be a populist.
The Corporate Right Is Giving Us Two Choices: Go Back to Work, or Starve
The right will fight to the death — our death — against any genuine bailout for regular people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here‘s why.
In Just Months, the Coronavirus Has Killed More Americans Than 20 Years of War in Vietnam
An appalling milestone of death has been reached in the Covid-19 pandemic that Donald Trump has downplayed over and over again.
With Millions Unable to Pay for Housing Next Month, Organizers Plan the Largest Rent Strike in Nearly a Century
The rent strike is aimed at pressuring politicians to respond in the only way appropriate to the exacerbated housing crisis: by canceling rent.