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Covid-19 ushers in a new political period. What does it look like?

Prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers can expect to see a largely “uncontrolled, unflattened curve” relating to the coronavirus outbreak, an epidemiology professor said.

'A growing concern about the disease, slight at first, then becoming deeper and more profound.'

Detainees say officials give them little information and are not doing enough to reduce their risk.

Ban Trump's "health" briefings! And other provocative media news and ideas

Cuba's response to the coronavirus pandemic — from sending doctors to other countries to pioneering anti-viral treatments to converting factories into mask-making machines — is putting other countries, even rich countries, to shame.

"Lawmakers must respond to this pandemic in a way that yanks us back from the abyss and actually prevents future catastrophes."

Let the lieutenant governor of Texas, raring to sacrifice himself on the altar of the free market, become a grocery store worker. Let the CNBC pundits become retail cashiers.

We are experts in income inequality, and our new book, “Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance,” argues that inequality from the Recession has a lot to do with how the government designed its response.

When the Covid-19 scare has passed, we will have a different government, a different economy and a different financial system. We need to make sure that what we get is an upgrade that works for everyone.