Sarah Jaffe The Great Ungrieving A million Americans have died from Covid-19. Yet the national task of mourning them has been outsourced and privatized, as the US goes on with business as usual. April 22, 2022
Mark Honigsbaum The Deep Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy Understanding the battle over immunization—from the pre-Victorian era onward—between public health and the people may help in treating anti-vax sentiment. December 14, 2021
Scott W. Stern An AIDS Activist’s Archive The obituaries saved by one social worker are, essentially, a list of names and the barest outlines of biography. But in their silences, they contain multitudes. October 29, 2021
Timothy Snyder What Ails America Although I did not understand this then, I had a severe infection in my liver. I was in a condition known as sepsis; death was close. September 3, 2020
April Zhu Kenya’s Human Rights Emergency The Public Order Act President Kenyatta invoked to enable his government’s pandemic measures is a colonial relic that gives police license to “round up pretty much anyone they choose, anywhere they choose,” writes political analyst Nanjala Nyabola. July 22, 2020
Rachel Shabi The Shock Therapy of the UK’s Covid Response Coupled with rolling back the welfare state through a handout of pandemic contracts to the private sector, this bonfire of regulations represents an extension of Thatcherism, a chance to finish what she started. July 8, 2020
Lavender Au Evacuation from China, Quarantine in the UK My mother does not talk about racism. I asked her what they said. “They don’t have to call you a Chink to know it’s racist,” she replied. March 2, 2020