28 March 2020
TOP STORIES
Corporate America Fleeced Us Again
The coronavirus bill is an orgy of corporate welfare that rivals the 2008 bailout.
BY MOE TKACIK
We Should Be Very Wary About the Growing Military Response to the Coronavirus Crisis
The reliance on the military for emergency response is a testament to the failures of the U.S. welfare state.
BY SARAH LAZARE
To Fix the Looming Supply Chain Crisis, Nationalize Amazon
Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic demands a novel solution: placing the e-commerce giant under public control.
BY PARIS MARX
The GOP Is Exploiting Fears of Rising Suicides to Protect Wall Street Profits
If Republicans really cared about stopping deaths of despair, they’d advocate for a robust social safety net.
BY SARAH LAZARE
Know Your Billionaire: Jeff Bezos
The richest man in the world wants you to work as much as he does—for one millionth of the pay.
BY BRANKO MARCETIC
We Need a Coronavirus Fiscal Stimulus That’s Bigger Than $2 Trillion. And We Need it Now.
The risk of going too small on stimulus is large, while the risk of going too big is almost nonexistent.
JOSH BIVENS
The Future Socialists Want, And Centrists Fear
Are reds and red-scarers even talking about the same thing?
BY JOEL BLEIFUSS
Wall Street Wants To Let Us Die So They Can Profit
Because self-isolation hurts corporate profits, billionaires are calling to end the too-limited public health measures taken so far by the US government.
BY ERIC BLANC
5 Years of U.S.-Saudi War Have Left Yemen Highly Vulnerable to a Coronavirus Outbreak
Any U.S. response to the global pandemic must end the war.
BY SHIREEN AL-ADEIMI
Open the Borders. Open the Prison Gates. Don’t Sacrifice a Single Person to This Virus.
Closed borders and ICE raids mean crowded detention centers and camps, which is always inhumane. In a pandemic, it’s a global public health threat.
BY KHURY PETERSEN-SMITH
The Senate’s $2 Trillion Bailout Falls Flat on Worker Protections
The coronavirus financial relief package is packed full of corporate giveaways and lacks basic safeguards for workers and their families.
BY JOSH BIVENS AND HEIDI SHIERHOLZ
30 Socialist Songs and Sayings To Wash Your Hands To
Twenty-second clips of Solidarity Forever, 9 to 5, Joe Hill, Guantanamera, and more.
BY LU ZHAO
WORKING IN THESE TIMES
Back to Work? You First.
Lloyd Blankfein, the reasonable cheerleader for restarting commerce, you can be a doorman, throwing open the doors of your Manhattan office building for all the bankers to return to their desks.
BY HAMILTON NOLAN
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