COVID-19

World Bank Bias Threatens Pandemic Breakthrough

President Biden’s unheralded breakthrough in the fight against global pandemics is threatened by World Bank colonial biases. The Administration can still change course.

By Paul Davis Erika McKibben Kristin Urquiza

COVID: The Urgency of Social Justice

By Marino A. Bruce Bettina M. Beech Reena Evers-Everette

We're Not 'Back to Normal'

And why acting as if we are is so detrimental to those who have been the most underserved during this pandemic. An interview with Dr. Julia Raifman.

By Julia Raifman

COVID's Forsaken Fighters

In a society where poor health is seen as a matter of personal responsibility, not the common good, the death of people with underlying health issues is sadly normalized.

By Sophia Crabbe-Field

'The U.S. Government Has to Take Back Control'

Public Citizen's Zain Rizvi tells Democracy how we let a handful of pharmaceutical companies turn the people's vaccine into the rich people's vaccine during a once-in-a-century public health crisis—and how we can turn things around.

By Zain Rizvi