Economy and Business
A Death Sentence for Meatpackers
Meatpackers are contracting COVID-19 and dying. Trump is requiring them to work — and shielding their employers from liability.
Stop Hospitals from Hounding Poor Patients
No family should have to worry about a hospital taking them to court when their loved one is connected to a ventilator.
Most Years, the Postal Service Is a Moneymaker
Most of the agency’s deficits are phony paper losses, manufactured by Congress at the behest of corporate privatizers.
Quarantined With No Medicine
I used to have a prescription for medical cannabis to treat migraines, but now I live in a prohibition state. It’s going to a long quarantine.
Undocumented Workers Need a Bailout, Too
Beyond performing essential labor, we are humans — and, in a pandemic, that should be enough to deserve help.
In a Pandemic, Health Inequities Are Even Deadlier
There’s an old saying in the black community: “When white people catch a cold, black people catch pneumonia.”
Postal Carriers Are Essential Workers. They Need a Stimulus, Too.
The president is trying to use the coronavirus crisis to kill the public postal service. We can’t let him.
I Take Hydroxychloroquine. Please Don’t Hoard It.
To prevent hoarding and protect public health, we need to move towards universal care and lower-cost drugs.
Disunited in Grief
What’s the real cost of Covid-19?
Stop the Pandemic Profiteers
It’s time for indignant citizens today to confront a new breed of shameful greed merchants: pandemic profiteers.
