Joseph Bullington, editor for In These Times, writes about a recent case of trailer park homeowners taking on the VCs who own the land they live on: “On Jan. 14, residents formed a cooperative, elected representatives, and voted to try to buy the park themselves.”

A database introduced this month aggregates state policies that had the goal of mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic consequences. 

According to a new paper, “nearly two out of three of the biggest U.S. publicly traded companies had larger profit margins this year than they did in 2019, prior to the pandemic. Nearly 100 of these corporations did report profits in 2021 that are 50 percent above profit margins from 2019. Evidence from corporate earnings…

A nationwide survey by the COVID States Project has found that a higher number of older Americans are unvaccinated and unboosted than widely reported in the CDC data used by most public health officials. Researchers say that the survey “sheds light on the critical need to vaccinate and boost older Americans.”

Aisha Jumaan, Preaident of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, condemned the US backed Saudi attack on Yemen in her latest piece. She says, “The causes of this devastation include a Saudi-led bombing campaign that targets infrastructure, food sources and health services, as well as coercive measures, including a blockade, directed at destroying Yemen’s economy.…

Preliminary evidence suggests that some Covid-19 variants have emerged from long-term Covid infections. As a result, five scientists argue that it is “of the utmost urgency that those with long-term infections should be able to access quality health care” and prioritized for curative therapies.