| May 20, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBillionaire Elon Musk recently defied local public health officials and reopened his flagship Tesla auto assembly plant in Fremont, California. Public safety officials had ordered that plant shut down — over Musk’s fierce opposition — almost two months earlier. “This...
| | RoundupAs more states lurch toward relaxing social distancing rules, prisons — where there is no social distancing — remain terrifying hot spots of COVID-19 infection. This week in OtherWords, my colleague Robert P. Alvarez explains why these outbreaks are both...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyMonty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list of high-dollar donors to Donald Trump — until he suddenly surfaced in April as the nation’s biggest bagger of government cash in the emergency Paycheck Protection Program. Bennett got $76...
| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFor many Americans, vote-by-mail will be a matter of life and death come November. In a pandemic, it is immoral to force voters to choose between their health and their freedom to vote. And it is immoral to knowingly trigger a major outbreak of the coronavirus when...
| | Environment / HealthStrangely enough, navigating the world with mental illness has oddly prepared me for quarantine. I’ve got social anxiety. I crave human connection, and I also fear it, so I spent years avoiding people while desperately lonely. You know what it looked like? A lot like...
