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President Donald Trump stops to speak to reporters as he prepared to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on January 19, 2019.

by Michael Winship
"The Buck Stops Here" becomes "Hey, Don't Look at Me!"



Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes the stage during a primary night event on February 11, 2020 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The Bernie Sanders campaign puts its fundraising prowess to another purpose."



A worker carries out sanitation operations for the Coronavirus emergency in Piazza dei Miracoli near to the Tower of Pisa in a deserted town on March 17, 2020.

by Randall Amster
The story of this moment is being written by all of us.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They didn't mobilize to help families, or prep response. They dumped stock."



Using a swab, Maximilian Schilling from the ASB takes a sample for a suspected case of the new coronavirus at the test center in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Ludwigslust on March 19, 2020. (Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As it was reported Thursday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States rose by over 40% in just 24 hours, frontline medical workers across the country expressed alarm about "severe shortages" of testing and protection equipment.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"$2,000 checks every month to every household during the emergency, means test it by raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires," said David Sirota of the Sanders campaign.



"When the coronavirus struck in 2020," the authors write, "the human responses were at first chaotic and insufficient, but soon became increasingly coherent and even dramatically different." (Image: iStock/sv_sunny)

by Hazel Henderson, Fritjof Capra
What will we say at that point, after we have finally learned what we so desperately needed to know?



Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talks about his plan to deal with the coronavirus pandemic on March 17, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Screengrab/BernieSanders.com)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
As Democratic primary turns surreal amid infectious outbreak, Sanders lays out "Coronavirus Crisis Principles" for people-centered response and a national mobilization on "a scale not seen since the New Deal and World War II."



(L-R) Gail Boudreaux, CEO of Anthem, US Vice President Mike Pence, US President Donald Trump, David Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, and others listen to an attendee speak to the press after a meeting about the coronavirus, COVID-19 with members of the insurance industry in the Roosevelt Room of the White House March 10, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

by Wendell Potter
Remember: For-profit insurers are in the business to make a profit. Period.



Naomi Klein, author of the 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, takes on "coronavirus capitalism" in a new video from The Intercept. (Image: iStock/GettyImages/With overlay)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a new video from The Intercept , author and activist Naomi Klein explains how the Trump administration and other governments across the globe are "exploiting" the new coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic "to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks," and how working people worldwide are resisting such efforts and demanding real support from political leaders during this crisis.


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