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  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Vaccination, Just Billions of Dollars Away From Success
    December 14, 2020
    | David Dayen

    A lot of positive signs, but states need money to distribute the doses.

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Vaccine Development Should Trigger Transformation of Monopoly Patent System
    December 11, 2020
    | David Dayen

    For the long-run threat to innovation, considering that companies used public money to develop the vaccine, and it worked in record time, the only thing that should be questioned is the current patent-based system. Innovation seemed to work fine with what amounts to a public process.

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: The Vaccine Distribution Gaps
    December 1, 2020
    | David Dayen

    There’s a gap in transparency and a gap in funding. Plus, looking at the holiday travel stats.

  • Letters From an American
    Biden's Picks: Not Your Usual Suspects
    December 1, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Biden appears to be recovering the structure and stability of our government while also enabling it to reflect our nation more accurately than it ever has before.

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: We’ve Given Almost Nothing to States and Cities for Vaccine Distribution
    November 23, 2020
    This breakthrough relies on rickety, underfunded local health systems.
  • Economy & Work
    Quietly Signed Trump Order Denounced as 'Declaration of War' Against Federal Employees
    October 26, 2020
    | Julia Conley

    The order sets up Trump's "cronies to burrow into permanent jobs in the US government," said one critic.

  • Letters From an American
    Hot Seats
    October 7, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    October 6, 2020 In the past three years, it has so often felt like things were reaching the breaking point. But the image of Trump on the balcony of the White House last night, defiantly taking off his mask as he gasped for breath, truly looked to me like the beginning of the final chapter. Today coronavirus infections continued to mount in the vicinity of the White House. At least 34 people near Trump have contracted the ...

  • Letters From an American
    "Quick, Look Over There"
    September 22, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    The administration is trying to deflect attention from the pandemic, financial crime reports and poll numbers.
  • Pandemic Timeline
    Dr. Hahn’s Betrayal: The FDA in Crisis
    September 9, 2020
    | Steven Harper

    The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for assuring the safety and efficacy of any new medical treatment. But Donald Trump and FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn have destroyed the agency’s credibility. In fact, drug manufacturers are now reassuring the public that they won’t even submit any COVID-19 vaccine for FDA approval unless they believe it is safe and effective.

  • Pandemic Timeline
    Liar, Liar, Pence on Fire
    July 1, 2020
    | Steven Harper

    Friday's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing was filled with wildly false claims about the administration’s supposed success in dealing with COVID-19. With only about 4% of the world’s population, America accounts for more than 25% of worldwide COVID-19 infections and deaths.



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