Covid-19 is interfering with the scheduled refueling and repair of nuclear power plants. They may have to shut down. Or they could keep operating with increased risk of a nuclear accident. Operators have imperfect information about what is going on inside of a nuclear reactor. Under the influence of hot, corrosive fluids, pieces of metal can break and move. This makes it even harder to understand what is going wrong and what to do about it.

The US system of imprisonment is a trap in which millions of people are caught, and society as a whole as well. It doesn't achieve its stated purposes.

"DNA vaccines" could amount to genetic engineering, since the genes they carry get incorporated into the genome of the animal (which may be a human) that gets vaccinated.

A DNA vaccine is not necessarily bad or unjust, but it has the potential to be so. So they need to be studied carefully, not rushed into use. It is therefore a matter of concern that some of the vaccines being developed against Covid-19 are DNA vaccines.

The 2008 fiscal crisis damaged US-led globalization. Covid-19 has damaged China-dominated globalization.

Can we stop globalization from bouncing back?

Globalization is the triumph of efficiency over resilience, and profit over people. If we learn the lesson, we will strengthen resilience, and that means pruning the globalization.

Plutocratist Democrats' new idea for giving some nonrich Americans medical insurance is to subsidize their premiums for the insurance they had before they were laid off.

The criticism in the article exaggerates, which is a shame since it is mostly valid. This would give laid-off former full-time workers something: it would pay part of the cost of continuing the coverage that they most of them received from their employers. Which is usually a lousy plan with high deductible and high copay.

Compared with a national medical system, it is a little better than nothing.

Meanwhile, the US government is giving big airlines billions, plus loans.