Portside

Pandemic is a systemic crisis of capitalism, and the responses worldwide foretell systemic changes.

Even social distancing sparks a culture war. Even Britney gets woke. And more revelations

Trump, who delayed responding to the pandemic for an unconscionable period of time, has now declared himself a “wartime president.” He knows that wartime presidents are never defeated at the ballot box.

The way out is nothing short of birthing a world (or perhaps more along the lines of returning back to Earth). It will also help solve—sleeves rolled up—many of our most pressing problems.

While a small portion of the jump can be attributed to 9 cases being confirmed in the Gaza Strip, the main cause of the increase is the ordered return of thousands of Palestinian laborers from Israel back to the West Bank.

Why do we fail in protecting our own people’s health and well-being while we squander more than a trillion dollars each year – with the assent of both Republicans and Democrats – on maintaining a failed and futile military empire across the world?

Texas and Ohio have ordered a stop to abortions, saying they’re not essential medical services. Other states will follow. Right-wing forces are using the pandemic as a pretext to crack down dramatically on abortion rights. We can’t let them.

Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.

As Democrats fret about their own prospects, many fail to recognize the president’s fundamental weakness.

Calling on city and landlords to provide relief amid coronavirus pandemic: ‘The hammer is going to drop’