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Open Source Licensing for Covid-19 Vaccines

Charles M Schweik and Timothy Ford The Conversation
If society needs to rapidly invent and deliver a vaccine – a global public good – with taxpayer money, why are U.S. federal agencies relinquishing the government’s ability to share and deploy these inventions and production processes with the world?

Cardboard People

Lollie Butler
A heavy burden we all carry in 2020: What’s missing? asks Arizona poet Lollie Butler. People, smiles and faces.

Progressives Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Fighting Biden’s Nominees

Jeet Heer The Nation
The incoming administration is owed no deference when it picks corporate insiders. One complicating factor is that nominees like Tanden and Austin are preferable to some of the alternative names being floated for their positions.