Category Archives: Pandemic

Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs

Hiring has become difficult because some McJobs workers won’t risk their health for a crap wage. So the right wants to beat them down.

Bank Shot: Financial Giants’ Return to Manhattan Gives Smaller Businesses Hope

Some bank CEOs are telling their workers to return to the office in the next few months. If Covid stay tame, will other companies follow?

‘Cry No Tears for These Death Profiteers’: Pharma Stocks Plunge as Biden Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver

Biden is suddenly backing a patent waiver for foreign manufacture of Covid vaccines. But do the mechanics make this a headfake?

Seychelles, World’s Most Vaccinated Country, Hit by Covid Surge….Including Among the Vaccinated

A big Covid surge in the Seychelles, a heavly vaccinated country, calls into question relying on vaccines as the route to normalcy.

Covid ‘Doesn’t Discriminate by Age’: Serious Cases on the Rise in Younger Adults

As Covid deaths and contagion is falling in the US (but rising globally), it’s a mistake for the young to dismiss risks.

EU Proposes Opening to Fully Vaccinated Non-Essential Travelers; The Catch: Proving Vaccine Status

The fully-vaccinated may soon be able to visit the EU for non-essential travel. The catch: proving one’s vaccine status.

New Malaria Vaccine Proves Highly Effective – and COVID Shows How Quickly It Could Be Deployed

One lasting benefit of the terrible COVID-19 pandemic might be a quicker route to a malaria vaccine and a safer future for children in the world’s poorest countries.

Mamata Banerjee’s TMC Retains West Bengal, Shutting Out Modi’s BJP from Taking Power in the State

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP failed to pull off an upset in West Bengal, and still has never atatinaed a majority in the state.

Biden Urged to Stand ‘On the Side of Humanity’ and Back Waiver for Covid Vaccine Patents

Biden faces increased wroldwide pressure for WTO waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines as case counts soar in India.

Mark Blyth – An Inflated Fear of Inflation?

Mark Blyth explains why inflation in the U.S., Canada, & E.U. is highly unlikely: a room for more government spending and higher wages.

Even Credentialed Young People Pessimistic About Their Futures

The fact that even well-placed young people are insecure and pessimistic is further proof of the impact of inequality and rentierism.

The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing

The Covid nightmare in India won’t end soon. Yet the West, despite self-interested reasons for reducing the contagion, is standing pat.

The Coronavirus Crisis Within the Economy Is Far From Over – Because Reopening Creates a Whole New Type of Risk

Whither the post-Covid economy, assuming a “post-Covid”? The answer depends at least in part on where you sit.

The Shock and Reality of Catching Covid After Being Vaccinated

A discussion of Covid “breakthrough” cases.

Covid Is Hitting Workers Differently Than the Financial Crisis

Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, as well as the job prospects of lower education workers.