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"If we can bail out large corporations, we can make sure that everyone in this country has enough income to pay for the basic necessities of life."

Research begins to pick apart the mechanisms behind a deadly COVID-19 complication

I started reporting on Tara Reade’s story a year ago. Here’s what I found, and where I’m stuck.

It embeds into official U.S. policy a shockingly extremist view of law enforcement as the enemy of the American people

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In a city where grown men shoot little boys eating ice cream cones and where meanness is the norm - Ron Clark was a kind and honorable man and that made him special. Clark died in May 2019, and our city is the poorer for it.

The capitulation is complete. Without a whimper from any of his fellow bishops, the cardinal archbishop of New York has inextricably linked the Catholic Church in the United States to the Republican Party and, particularly, President Donald Trump.

A quick read for organizers on how to talk about China, Chinese people and COVID19. The rise of xenophobia and the onslaught of China bashing is just another right wing political and narrative strategy to deflect responsibility of COVID-19 by Trump.

Tomorrow's Labor Department report will show 22 million jobs lost last month. Unemployment is likely to hit 15 percent or higher, by far the worst since the Great Depression. Then a Federal works program, the Civilian Conservation Corps was created.