A new Amnesty International report lays out how the pandemic has significantly exacerbated inequality across the Americas over the past year. Over 1.3 million people have died in the region from COVID-19, making the Americas the hardest-hit area in the world.
Since last year, approximately 440 Cubans have died from COVID-19, giving Cuba one of the lowest death rates per capita in the world. Cuba is also developing five COVID-19 vaccines, including two which have entered stage 3 trials. Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system for decades, in part because of the six-decade U.S. embargo that has made it harder for Cuba to import equipment and raw materials from other countries.
As people try to find a safe way to gather and travel during the pandemic, there is growing interest in documenting who has been vaccinated or tested negative for COVID-19. The World Health Organization has warned so-called vaccine passports may not be an effective way to reopen, and healthcare professionals argue vaccine certificates may further exacerbate vaccine inequality.
In today’s news: Matt Gaetz, still. Americans who have served prison time are getting their voting rights back. Biden demonstrates it’s possible to criticize the Chinese government without being a festering boil of bigotries, an approach that still baffles Captain Golf Dude and Republican candidates alike.
Larry Krasner’s 2017 victory in the race for Philadelphia district attorney gave criminal justice reformers an early high-profile win, but he faces a competitive May 18 Democratic primary fight to hold onto his office. Krasner’s opponent is former prosecutor Carlos Vega, who has argued that the incumbent has been running “an experiment that is costing the lives of our children.
Rep. Matt Gaetz really shouldn’t have time to analyze the media interviews of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. But apparently, where there’s a will to deflect, there’s a way.
The Wyoming lawmaker also called the sex trafficking allegations against Matt Gaetz “sickening.
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to another discussion of the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
It’s charming and weird, and it’s up to something.
The Republican refrain about everything but tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy has long been “But how can we afford it?”
A giant tax cut for those at the top? Sure! No problem! Bridges, trains, schools, an upgraded and secure power grid? It’s just too expensive.
The Nevada Republican Party voted to censure Nevada’s Republican Secretary of State, Barbara Cegavske, for refusing to investigate baseless allegations of fraud in the 2020 elections.
The Fox News host asked Texas’ Greg Abbott why he has been outspoken about Biden’s handling of the issue but didn’t complain when Trump was president.
Trump also reportedly mocked the senator’s wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, over her decision to resign in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot.
“That’s why we need to get to the bottom of this,” he said of Covid’s origins.
The transportation secretary, who is Christian, offered a message to white evangelicals who don’t want to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control.
As long as one knows the appeal of the qin,
what is the need for the sound of the strings?
— Attributed to Tao Yuanming, 365–427In the museum, I looked at
the beautiful things, one after another,
so many I could not take them all in.
Then I sat in the inner pavilion, clouds
moving overhead, the pages of my book blank.Because I could not see as I wanted to see.
I was beyond beauty. I was beyond seeing.
The key to surviving dangers in the wild is not to get caught in the first place.
Parenting advice on adoption, foster parenting, and asexuality.
During a pandemic, public-health messaging is essential to saving lives. Media organizations have played a major role in that messaging over the past year, and not always for the better.Across the English-speaking world, many news stories about the spread of COVID-19 have been accompanied by photographs of people in outdoor settings, particularly beaches.
Development economists typically tell a compelling story about land reform: Countries can supercharge their development by leveling inequality and radically reallocating assets. In East Asia, nations that followed this simple formula transformed themselves into economic powerhouses.So why haven’t more countries adopted this well-established blueprint? The governments that have the will and capacity to adopt major land reforms are typically authoritarian.
How Southeast D.C. shoppers navigated a separate and unequal food system under strain.
It would pay for his ambitious policies—and solve one of the thorniest problems created by global capitalism.
Whatever your feelings about the future of work, the JPMorgan CEO is here to support your case.
Karlin Chan started the Chinatown Block Watch last February. He’s still at it.
We gummed up a system that’s supposed to aid struggling Americans quickly.
It’s not clear how long FDA might take to review Pfizer-BioNTech’s new request
Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said the agency would take steps to address an issue affecting “the health of our entire nation.
Canada has had to rely entirely on over-burdened foreign supply chains for a Covid vaccine rollout that has lagged international peers.
