Activists Vow to Protect USPS as States Expand Mail-in Voting
Reading Time: 4 minutes Voting-rights groups are beefing up their legal efforts to protect access to absentee voting, which now also means protecting the postal service.
COVID-19 Hits Hardest at the Poor — No Matter Where They Live
Reading Time: 4 minutes The poor suffer disproportionately in the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nigeria, a country beset by poverty, the tragedies of the coronavirus are compounded by a fragile infrastructure, food shortages, and corruption.
The Media’s Most Important Job in 2020: Countering Postelection Chaos
Reading Time: 7 minutes Newsrooms need to prepare themselves and the public for what will be a contentious couple of weeks following the delay in election night results.
Never Let a Coronavirus Go to Waste
Reading Time: 5 minutes Trump is pursuing his agenda under the cloak of a distracting pandemic. It’s worth remembering what that agenda is.
What Everybody Is Missing About Bob Dylan’s JFK Song
Reading Time: 11 minutes The pundits missed the point: Dylan says a conspiracy killed JFK — and led his generation down a rabbit hole.
The Reason Why We Haven’t Nuked a Hurricane Yet
Reading Time: < 1 minute President Donald Trump loves floating crazy ideas so that he’ll appear sane when he later reverses course.
Religious Nationalism and the Reopening of America
Reading Time: 17 minutes Some Christian nationalists are contesting the coronavirus lockdown to further their own Bible-based, authoritarian agenda.
Dissident Russian Doctors Have ‘Accidents’ Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Russia’s overburdened medical system, whistleblowing may be more deadly than the coronavirus.
From Poverty to Pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes What the coronavirus teaches us about the universal consequences of inequality.
States Grapple With Germ-Ridden Voting Machines Amid Coronavirus
Reading Time: 4 minutes Scientists say the coronavirus could survive for days on voting machines, so election officials are seeking strategies to protect both public health and the right to vote.