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LGBTQ Inequality and Vulnerability in the Pandemic

Around the world, LGBTQ people are more vulnerable to the pandemic — especially where their status intersects with poverty.

Why is Trump unraveling treaties on nuclear arms? It’s not just greed — some people want to use them.

Right-wing “intellectuals” uncomfortable with the Black Lives Matter movement have latched onto a dubious historical analogy.

The storm ravaged India and Bangladesh all the worse because of social and economic inequality. The same, or worse, could happen here.

Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — not just of disease, but of violence, exploitation, and corporate capture.

The American war machine has always been integral to American racism. It’s time to tear it down along with those Confederate statues.

The U.S. may be at the center of both pandemics, but — as worldwide demonstrations show — each is global.

Many of the establishment figures now turning on Trump have blood on their hands. But that’s the point.

In politically turbulent Thailand, a public health system with popular support — not decrees from above — made all the difference.

America’s racism is destroying its advanced status in real time — and with it, the most redeeming parts of liberal internationalism.