| Apr 1, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs a veteran of the U.S. Army, I’m often thanked for my service. I’ve never felt comfortable receiving this thanks. To be honest, I’m not proud of my participation in the Iraq War. But recently, as the initial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic gripped...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe second highest office-holder of the great state of Texas, Republican Lieutenant General Dan Patrick, recently proclaimed on Fox News that lots of senior citizens would be willing — or should be, anyway — to sacrifice their lives to coronavirus in order to save the...
| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / Democracy“COVID-19 is a White man’s disease. It doesn’t seem to infect Black people,” posited Jane, a community leader in New Haven, Connecticut, who had come to the U.S. as a refugee from Africa many years ago. Jane addressed my team of health researchers and members of...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedImagine a country where health care workers lack the equipment necessary to prevent coronavirus infection while treating people suffering from this terrible new disease. Other countries are sending help. But meanwhile the shortage is so bad that citizens have taken it...
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| Mar 25, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedSocial distancing is hard, and it’s not fun. I don’t question that we are doing what is necessary. Until better testing, treatment, and prevention are available, it is. But quarantining us in our homes separates us at a time when we need connection. And you know...
