coronavirus
Bringing empty shoes to honor the dead, nurses descend on Capitol
July 22, 2020As pandemic worsens across America they lobby for protective gear and launch new push for unionizing more of their heroic colleagues.
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People of color face mass homelessness as eviction moratoriums end
July 22, 2020Black and brown Americans—the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it—are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have...
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Florida teachers sue state to stop unsafe school reopening plan
July 21, 2020The suit arises against a background that sees right-wing Gov. DeSantis slavishly following Trump’s demand to reopen states and schools despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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Eric the Clapper tells us why he claps
July 17, 2020“Did you clap tonight?” my faraway husband in Mexico asks me almost every evening when we talk.
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Apocalypse Rot, a quarantined poem
July 17, 2020"Who knew the apocalypse would come by way of cough?"
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