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In the eyes of scientists, the virus isn't really "invisible."
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Total Cuomo Show
April 30, 2020
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is going to run. Cara, his daughter, thinks she can beat him, but he’ll be out there, say, five miles a day: “fast like lightning.” Cuomo should start running—for president! That’s what certain pundits and livestream devotees are saying ...
Barely Necessities
Employers stretch the definition of “essential” to its breaking point
Free Up the Prisoners
April 28, 2020
Immigration activists should call for the abolition of imprisonment of migrants.
The Waiting Game
April 27, 2020
Long lines at polling sites and benefits offices are no accident.
Covid Complacence
A doctor in Florida describes current battles against the coronavirus.
Fresh Hell
April 24, 2020
Big Bleach Energy
No Sleep till Auschwitz
A short story by Jeremy M. Davies.
Crimes of Passion
April 23, 2020
The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.
Of Migrants, Muslims, and Other Non-People
April 22, 2020
The coronavirus lays bare India's shameful inequalities.
Ill Will
April 21, 2020
Throughout history, pandemics have been structured by racism.
Quagmire Days
April 20, 2020
Settling in for the “Covid Spring” in small-town Wyoming.