The Virus
By Alec Pruchnicki First, the virus came for the Chinese, but I did nothing because I wasn’t Chinese. Then it came for the New Yorkers, […]
Life in a Plague Year—Life in the Time of COVID-19
By Penny Arcade As I am someone who lived through the cruelest years of the AIDS epidemic, younger people often ask me, “Was it like […]
Let’s Get Real About Aging: COVID-19 and Ageism
By Gail Evans “The pandemic has amplified ageism,” read the headline in the May 1st Los Angeles Times. “It’s open season for discrimination against older […]
NYU Graduate Student Workers Sick-Out Protest Due to COVID
By Anthony Paradiso On Mar. 9, New York University moved all of its classes to remote learning and on Mar. 13 NYU officially closed its […]
Tipping the Balance of Power
By James Roman Discrimination was legal in the early 1980s. Gays could lose their homes, jobs, custody, you name it, because there were no laws […]
Pride Inside
By Ed Chinery Do you know that feeling that everything’s okay? When you’re safe and loved? Feel like you belong? And the opposite. A sense of foreboding. Uneasy in mind, […]
Society Is Ready for a Renaissance
By Calogero Salvo During this reclusive period, my mind has been flying to other moments of my life where, similar to the current experiences, I […]
A Nobel Laureate Crying Out in the Wilderness
By Stanley Wlodyka Jiménez “Everything is going to change because of this pandemic. Everything about life as we know it is going to change. Nothing […]
The Plight of New Yorkers Who Have No Homes
By Carol F. Yost On May 12, 2020, an op-ed appeared in the Daily News with the title, “Why I Slept on the Subways: They […]
Notes From Away: Partisan Democracy (an Oxymoron)
By Tom Lamia On the road to partisanship, we have traveled all but the last mile. If there is no off-ramp to be found before […]
Reality Check—COVID: Into the Middle Innings
By Jesse Robert Lovejoy For a starting pitcher, the most dangerous inning is the first. He isn’t really warmed up, and he doesn’t know what’s […]
Where Have All the White Folks Gone?
By Alec Pruchnicki There are numerous accounts of COVID infecting and killing more people of color (African-Americans and Hispanics) than whites in New York and […]