Sunday, April 19, 2020

Sunday Best: The America we need right now

A look at the future from the path of inequality.

“How is the pandemic altering the trajectories of different generations? How is it changing how we socialize, work, shop, worship, educate our children and entertain ourselves?” asks James Bennet, our editorial page editor. Above all, can America emerge stronger from this crisis? As Bennet explains here, Times Opinion had been planning an inequality project — but the coronavirus changed everything. Now, we’re focusing on the above questions and examining how the country can come out of this not only stronger, but also fairer and more free. We’re at an inflection point, and Times Opinion is on a mission to explore how we can use this moment to change society for the better. Read on for more. — Alexandra March

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The Next Multitrillion-Dollar Crisis Is Coming Right at Us

A home in Baton Rouge, La., near an ExxonMobil oil refinery.Emily Kask for The New York Times

“The same corporations that exacerbated the climate crisis are literally helping to create deadlier diseases, more quickly, in a world that keeps changing how they spread.”

What Do You Owe Your Neighbor? The Pandemic Might Change Your Answer

João Fazenda

“The pandemic has increased Americans’ feelings of solidarity with others, but it has also increased their acceptance of inequalities due to luck. These shifts may over time affect public opinion on policies for lessening the social and economic impact of the virus.”

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Why Coronavirus Is Killing African-Americans More Than Others

An ambulance driver outside a hospital in New York.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

“In truth, black susceptibility to infection and death in the coronavirus pandemic has everything to do with the racial character of inequality in the United States.”

Stop Talking About Inequality and Do Something About It

Jeremiah Ellison, a member of the Minneapolis City Council, fears for his neighborhood.  Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times

“As North Minneapolis prepares to brace ourselves for the grim future Detroit and Milwaukee have shown us, the death tolls suggest that acknowledgments don’t mean a thing. I want to take us back to this notion of remedy.

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America Can Afford a World-Class Health System. Why Don’t We Have One?

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“The United States spends more than any other nation on health care, and yet we have the lowest life expectancy among rich countries.”

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