Plus, why we need to bring Covid vaccines door-to-door, and more....
Friday
April 16, 2021
Andrew Yang, Celebrity Politician
The front-runner to become the next mayor of New York has a lot of big ideas. Few of them have much to do with running New York.
By Alex Pareene
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Medical Risk Is Never Shared Equally. Our Health Care System Is Built to Guarantee That.
What the debate about the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine, birth control, and blood clots was really about
By Danielle Tcholakian
Big Business Is a Reliable Friend of the Republican Party
Right-wing populists are declaring war on “woke” corporations, but in the end, these alleged foes all want the same thing: GOP rule.
By Osita Nwanevu
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Bring Covid Vaccines Door-to-Door
To overcome hesitancy and reach herd immunity, we may have to treat vaccination like a political campaign.
By Melody Schreiber
The Problem With Trusting “the Science”
Politicians like Chris Christie have weaponized science to serve their agendas.
By John Patrick Leary
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The U.S. Has a Very Big Abandoned Oil Well Problem
Democrats are debating proposals to cap wells and their methane leaks. But we don’t even know the scale of the issue yet.
By Nick Martin
Raoul Peck’s
Exterminate All the Brutes
Insists on Telling What Really Happened
The documentarian returns with an urgent argument about imperial violence—and what it means for America now.
By Jo Livingstone
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