COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus.
In April, 8.3% of disabled Americans were unemployed, compared with 3.1% of those without a disability.
A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.
Workers who bore the brunt of the Covid pandemic at billion-dollar companies such as Dollar General, McDonald’s and Wendy’s are leading a surge in action.
The recent decline in rates of sexual activity has been attributed variously to sexism, neoliberalism, and women’s increased economic independence. How fair are those claims—and will we be saved by the advent of the sex robot?
Newly released documents reveal that the meatpacking industry’s callousness toward the health of its workers and its influence over the Trump administration were far greater than previously known.
Fueled by worries about COVID-19 safety and a lack of sick days, Black workers at the two corporate giants are leading the fight for union organizing.
The coronavirus remains new enough and its long-term effects unpredictable enough that measuring the threat posed by an infection is a thorny problem. How people perceive risk is subjective.
Most schoolchildren get only an hour or two of climate education per year. It’s up to their parents to teach them optimism and action in the face of a daunting crisis.
No country in the world has seen life expectancy plummet during the pandemic as sharply as the US. The gap between the United States and its peer income countries is now over five years, which is an incredible gap.
The CDC is beholden to corporations and has lost our trust. We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid
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