COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus.
We need to address the needs of students—and parents, and teachers. One size does not fit all, and race complicates the challenge.
Six Supreme Court ideologues have defied science, common sense and established law. Thousands will die of covid as a result.
The justices fail to understand that workers — almost every worker — is at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace than the average American.
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Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge.
For vaccinated and otherwise healthy people, it may seem tempting to live a normal life and get Omicron over with. Here are some reasons why you shouldn't.
COVID-19 is far from over, not because it cannot be stopped but because it cannot be stopped in a profit-driven society. The same can be said for climate change, environmental destruction, pollution, poverty, and war.
Intellectual property of this vaccine will be available to everybody. "And it's cheap, a dollar, dollar fifty a dose. You're not going to get less expensive than that." An Indian company is already producing 100 million doses a month.
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NYC teachers and nurses shine a light on the state of schools and hospitals as we near two years of the pandemic. Can workplace organizing stave off collapse and win a transformative political agenda?
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