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Pandemic Fatigue
January 25, 2022
Rachel M. Cohen
The Bogus Claim That School Closures Will Doom Democrats
Pundits are acting apocalyptic about pandemic education policy and the midterms. The evidence paints a far shakier picture.
January 17, 2022
Walter Shapiro
It’s Foolish to Predict the Midterms Until We Know Covid’s Future
Biden’s approval rating on the virus is bleak, but Democrats’ fortunes in 2022 could quickly change if the pandemic becomes endemic.
August 27, 2021
Molly Osberg
Inside the Paranoid, Highly Excitable Ecosystem of the Vaccine Card Black Market
The person you’re trying to fool with that phony card is likely just an overtired bartender or HR administrator newly deputized into our chaotic public health infrastructure.
August 19, 2021
Melody Schreiber
Don’t Call It a Pandemic of the Stupid
There are structural reasons people are swayed by anti-vaccine propaganda. Sneering at the unvaccinated won't solve them.
August 17, 2021
Rachel M. Cohen
New School Year, Same Old Covid Chaos
A highly contagious variant, quarantines, closures, and fast-changing rules: It was supposed to be a calm fall, but we’re looking at a new year that could look a lot like the last.
March 8, 2021
Rachel M. Cohen
Inside a Long, Messy Year of Reopening Schools
Teachers unions were accused of being obstinate and compromising education. The real story is a lot more complex.
December 11, 2020
Colette Shade
The Year We Learned to Live Like Life Doesn’t Matter
How the pandemic put a grotesque new face on the political normalization of brutality.
December 10, 2020
Melody Schreiber
Now Is When We Choose How Effective the Covid Vaccines Will Be
If we let cases continue to surge, we’ll be stuck in this pandemic for much longer.
October 28, 2020
J.C. Pan
Pandemic Fatigue Is Just Exhaustion in the Face of a Failed State
Americans are increasingly frustrated by the obligation to ride out a global disaster on their own. They have every reason to be.
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