If there's one voice we need to hear from on COVID-19, it is that of Mike Davis, the great writer about disasters and inequality. His take is bracing. A year from now we may look back in admiration at China’s success in containing the pandemic...
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Among the many cascading effects of coronavirus is going to be in the criminal injustice system: As the number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus starts to creep up in.
Every "natural disaster" is a combination of the natural world and human actions. Basically natural disasters expose and exacerbate political problems and inequality. And we are already seeing this with.
I guess there's no reason for Florida's escaped monkeys to be any less disease ridden than Florida's people: In the heart of central Florida lies Silver Spring State Park—a large patchwork of forests and wetlands with a spring-fed river flowing through it. One of Florida’s...
It's time to remember two true things about Jimmy Carter. First, he was a bad president who undermined his own administration through his obsession with inflation, his governance well to.
Disasters, however "natural," are a wonderful (well, horrible really) entry point into exposing to the public to deep fissures on inequality in a society. That's true whether they are earthquakes,.
As we discussed the other day, we don't really know what the heck is going with the Zika virus. We do know that it is causing a variety of health problems in different places that are very bad. The most prominent is microcephaly, where babies...
With all the intensive fear-mongering coverage of Ebola in the weeks before the 2014 midterm elections, you'd think that the World Health Organization declaring Sierra Leone Ebola-free would be big.
Paul Voosen has an interesting article at National Geographic that wonders why there has not been more known cancer clusters develop given the nation's long history of toxicity. There's no.
Can we get in the Wayback Machine for a minute? All the way to a month ago. In early November, in the days before the midterm election, Ebola was the greatest threat this nation ever faced and who was to blame for that but the...
In the late 19th century, Americans were still trying to figure out why they died of horrible diseases all the time. At this time, the idea of contagion was just.
Given that Washington was a swampy cesspool of disease and both human and animal waste through most of the 19th century (as opposed to the spiritual and moral cesspool it.