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Wealthy Preppers Are Riding This Out in Multimillion-Dollar Bunkers
GEN: Is there a distinction between bunker people and prepper people? Is that a Venn diagram…
Continue ReadingFor Some Churches, Easter Is Too Profitable to Cancel
On the fifth Sunday of Lent, a week into the governor’s order limiting gatherings of more…
Continue ReadingThe Definitive Ranking of the Worst U.S. Government Responses to the Coronavirus
Politicians’ refusal to take the coronavirus pandemic seriously has put millions of Americans at risk President…
Continue ReadingThis Pandemic Would’ve Looked So Much Different Under Medicare For All
Abdul El-Sayed’s new book ‘Healing Politics’ makes the case for a different approach to public health.…
Continue ReadingNo One Should Want a Return to Normalcy
A return to safety? Sure. But things haven’t been ‘normal’ around here for a very long…
Continue ReadingYou Never Forget Your First Viral Pandemic
Those videos of spring breakers blithely dismissing the seriousness of Covid-19 that were making the rounds…
Continue ReadingMy Daughter and I Are Homeless. This Crisis Has Made Life Even Harder.
Gabrielle B. is a 38-year-old single mom in Birmingham, Alabama. She and her daughter have been…
Continue ReadingI’m 9 Months Pregnant and Afraid to Give Birth in a Hospital
Nikki Kay is a 37-year-old from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. She is about to give…
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