World’s Affairs

By Dady Chery We are supposed to be thinking this […]

By March 16, when Trump was going on about the “Chinese virus,” there were 88 deaths in the United States by the novel coronavirus. About a month later, more than 50,000 people in the U.S. died from the lethal virus, far more than died in China. Rather than look deep into the record to see how the U.S. had destroyed its own public health system by austerity.

The Trump administration describes Cuba’s medical response teams as “slaves”—we […]