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Med Students Aren’t Sitting Out the Fight Against the Coronavirus

Medical residents go over patient information with medical students.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Saturday, March 14, Avery Thompson and 650 other medical students at the University of California, San Francisco, received an email: Clinical classes were going online and planned hours in the hospital…

“Shoppers Have Had Enough”: Instacart Workers Plan a Strike

For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday, workers for the grocery delivery service Instacart are planning to strike as part of an effort for better workplace protections amid the coronavirus pandemic. The nationwide walkout is one of a handful of similar actions across the country that call attention to…

“This Feels Like a Death Sentence”: Rikers Jail Inmates Speak Out As Coronavirus Cases Spread

The Rikers Island jail complexSeth Wenig, File/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Inside a maximum-security building at the Rikers Island jail complex, Haleen, a 28-year-old man incarcerated on a parole violation, wishes he had an inhaler. At one point this week, the coronavirus was spreading through the…

No, Nancy Pelosi Didn’t Go Senile Over Her Coronavirus Bill

Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over at National Review, Dan McLaughlin echoes the sentiments of many conservatives about the House version of the coronavirus rescue bill: The House’s voice vote passing the Senate’s version of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill puts the…

Capitalism Is America’s Religion. The Virus Makes That Clear.

President Trump delivers remarks at the White House Easter Egg Roll in April 2019.Kevin Dietsch/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Despite experts urging that quarantine measures may need to continue for months to quell the spread of coronavirus, President Trump has said he wants the United States to…