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As the fear surrounding COVID-19 grows, Asian Americans are facing increased discrimination, stigma and violence. Representative Judy Chu (D-Calif.) told MSNBC in an interview on Tuesday that attacks on Asian Americans are at about 100 per day.

The coronavirus may not, in retrospect, prove to be the tipping point that upends human civilization as we know it, but it should serve as a warning that we will experience ever more such events in the future as the world heats up.

The undocumented workers who pick the nation's food are excluded from the CARES Act.

The U.S. spends about twice as much per capita for its patchwork health-care system than most industrialized countries. Why were we caught with such shortages of masks, ventilators or hospital beds?

Pandemic is a systemic crisis of capitalism, and the responses worldwide foretell systemic changes.

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We need another aid bill. Elected officials have a responsibility to stabilize both communities and the housing market.

"How did we go from preventing baby dumping, fighting domestic violence to some sad variant of the Obedient Wives Club?"

Even social distancing sparks a culture war. Even Britney gets woke. And more revelations

This op-ed argues that people swooning over the New York governor's steady hand during the coronavirus crisis should look at his record in office.