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Unorthodox Trailer | Netflix

April 24, 2020

In pursuit of self-determination, a young woman leaves her ultra orthodox Jewish community in New York City to start a new life in Berlin. But just as she starts to find her own way, the past begins to catch up with her. A Netflix Original Series inspired by Deborah Feldman's New York Times Bestselling book ‘Unorthodox.’

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Harass COVID-19 Nurses

April 24, 2020

‘We’re trying to do the right thing, and we don’t need to get attacked.’ — Watch anti-lockdown protesters harass these nurses.

Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals Broken System In U.S. Nursing Homes

April 24, 2020

The nursing home in New Jersey where police discovered bodies piled up in a room had a rating “much below average” and dozens of citations before the COVID-19 outbreak

April 24, 2020

Coronavirus May Wane This Summer, But Don’t Count on Any Seasonal Variation to End the Pandemic

Ellen Wright Clayton The Conversation

COVID-19 is already spreading in many parts of the world where it’s hot, including Australia and South America, demonstrating that high temperatures are not enough to stop the disease

April 24, 2020

Let's Stop Pretending Billionaires Are in the Same Boat As Us During This Pandemic

Chuck Collins The Guardian

While millions of Americans were being thrown out of work by the coronavirus, the super rich saw their wealth increase 10 percent

April 24, 2020

Building on the Bernie Movement in Coronavirus Time

Robert L. Borosage The Nation

Sanders won’t let the people who power the movement he started waste their votes.

April 24, 2020

Trump Optimistic About Winning Nobel Prize in Medicine

Andy Borowitz The New Yorker

The President said that he was a "lock" to win the Nobel because of his pioneering work in prescribing the drug hydroxychloroquine.

April 24, 2020

Coronavirus at the Bottom of the Supply Chain

James North The Nation

Kalpona Akter standing in front of a colorful abstract mural.

The coronavirus will likely strike the Global South more viciously than it is currently hitting the United States and other well-off nations. The pandemic has the potential to devastate poorer nations with weak health care systems.

April 24, 2020

Waiting for My Turn

Majid Naficy

The Persian poet Majid Naficy draws on his memory of political terror to evoke present-day emotions caused by the virus.

April 23, 2020

Stacey Abrams On Voting Rights, COVID-19, And Being Vice President

Melissa Harris-Perry Elle

Abrams's impulse to reach for the lessons of history while staying fixed on the necessity of service to the future suggests she may be the singularly remarkable leader America needs in this time of unprecedented economic and social change.