My Quarantine Horse

“Where the hell is Alfie’s cancer medication?” my girlfriend asked, frantically searching through her bag as…

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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…

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For 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…

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The 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…

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This 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.…

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No One Should Want a Return to Normalcy

A return to safety? Sure. But things haven’t been ‘normal’ around here for a very long…

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You Never Forget Your First Viral Pandemic

Those videos of spring breakers blithely dismissing the seriousness of Covid-19 that were making the rounds…

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My 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…

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I’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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