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Yesterday 12:24 pm

Schools: To Open or Not to Open? That Is Not the Question.

The question is: Will the US government provide the safety net and wealth redistribution necessary to support life in this country?

Rhea Boyd
Yesterday 11:15 am

There Are Literally No Good Options for Educating Our Kids This Fall

But the real scandal is that we shouldn’t be in this position in the first place.

Elie Mystal
Yesterday 5:30 am

The New Lysenkoism in Washington

At a time when we desperately need scientific leadership, what we’ve got is a rogues’ gallery of frauds and flatterers who see the pandemic as a career move.

Gregg Gonsalves
Yesterday 5:00 am

To Fight the Coronavirus We Need a Massive Campaign of Disruption

Gregg Gonsalves on Covid-19, plus Meagan Day on the Eviction Crisis

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
July 15, 2020

Cannibalism Is No Cure for Covid-19

Rush Limbaugh’s praise of the Donner Party is part of an old tradition of exalting unnecessary suffering rather than offering solutions.

Jeet Heer
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July 15, 2020

The Covid Crisis Reveals the Need to Abolish Abortion Restrictions

What kind of nation allows people to be prosecuted for health care?

Renee Bracey Sherman
July 15, 2020

This Pandemic Is Already Hitting the Homeless Hard. It’s About to Get Worse.

With as many as 23 million American renters facing eviction, homelessness will likely grow worse.

Rajan Menon
July 14, 2020

Ayanna Pressley to Betsy DeVos: ‘I Wouldn’t Trust You to Care for a House Plant Let Alone My Child’

You shouldn’t either.

John Nichols
July 14, 2020

It’s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus—Our Lives Depend on It

The way we talk about contagion matters. It shapes how societies respond—and whether many of us will survive.

Sonia Shah
July 14, 2020

NBA at the Breaking Point

NBA scribe Michael Lee joins the show to talk about the NBA restart and Stephen Jackson’s comments.

Dave Zirin

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Coronavirus

Yesterday 12:24 pm

The question is: Will the US government provide the safety net and wealth redistribution necessary to support life in this country?

Yesterday 11:15 am

But the real scandal is that we shouldn’t be in this position in the first place.

Yesterday 5:30 am

At a time when we desperately need scientific leadership, what we’ve got is a rogues’ gallery of frauds and flatterers who see the pandemic as a career move.

Yesterday 5:00 am

Gregg Gonsalves on Covid-19, plus Meagan Day on the Eviction Crisis

July 15, 2020

Rush Limbaugh’s praise of the Donner Party is part of an old tradition of exalting unnecessary suffering rather than offering solutions.

GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!

July 15, 2020

What kind of nation allows people to be prosecuted for health care?

July 15, 2020

With as many as 23 million American renters facing eviction, homelessness will likely grow worse.

July 14, 2020

You shouldn’t either.

July 14, 2020

The way we talk about contagion matters. It shapes how societies respond—and whether many of us will survive.

July 14, 2020

NBA scribe Michael Lee joins the show to talk about the NBA restart and Stephen Jackson’s comments.