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Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation.

This is an edited version of a piece by Leopoldo Tartaglia of the international department of the CGIL, Italy’s largest union federation. Thanks to Peter Olney for the translation.

All five parties comprising the Finish governing coalition are women and there is near gender parity in parliament. Yet Finland is not a utopia for equality. There is still a wage gap, job segregation and the reality of domestic violence.

Nigerians learned that horizontal approaches focusing on prevention and the general well being of a community make it harder for disease to spread rapidly.

The likely defeat of Sanders’s campaign is a setback, but no cause for retreat. The Democratic center is out of ideas, but to win electorally, the left must devise strategies for the electorate it faces now and not one it hopes to bring into being.

The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Brazil, yet President Bolsonaro has approved a new project to contact and convert isolated Amazon indigenous groups by an evangelical organization with a history of doing deadly harm to Indians.

Race plays an unmistakable part in the Democratic challenge in conservative states and districts. And it's deeper than just antipathy to Obama; in fact, it goes back half a century.

Tax avoidance in the United States contributes to the national debt, but in developing countries it’s literally causing people to go hungry.

Figuring out where we are in the universe makes "Where's Waldo" look like child's play. Wait, "Where's Waldo" is child's play, but locating our location in the universe is really cool science.

OK, you didn't see this one coming. Canada, yes, Canada, leads the world in forest degradation, according to a new mapping project.