Josh Wilson
It’s interesting to see our site and articles getting traffic despite the fact that The Daylighter has been on hiatus for more than a year. We don’t expect that to change anytime soon. While we’d love to forge ahead with a new program of original, magazine-style reporting, the financing and audience volume isn’t there. Where […]
Read MoreWe’re now at the end of our second week of crisis-style coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ve been covering stories expediently, delving deep into local and regional media around the world, and keeping focused on our core beats of human rights, environment, democracy, and related public-interest issues. This includes shorter news briefs, plus deeper dives […]
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Expert mocked for alarmist tweetstorm The data were in before the pandemic began, and one scientist tried to sound the alarm. A Harvard epidemiologist using Twitter tried to warn society back in January about the global threat COVID-19 represented. He was ignored, ridiculed, or asked to tone it down, in one case by the elite […]
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Since 2010, more than 125 hospitals have closed across rural America, victims of a lack of investment by both government agencies and private health corporations. Now, about 60 million people who live in these regions — that’s about 1 in 5 Americans — are at risk not just from the advance of the virulent coronavirus […]
Read MoreJust a week or two ago, everything was different. Except that it wasn’t. The coronavirus pandemic has been a long time coming. We’ve had months of lead time, witnessing the outbreak emerge in China, and the devastating toll it’s taking in Italy and Iran. There’s also the difficult truth that epidemiologists — such as Larry […]
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Amidst the fear, uncertainty and social distancing of the coronavirus pandemic, communities everywhere are finding ways to stay humane and connected. The Internet — which has over the past few years been recognized more for its powers of fomenting social division and political partisanship — is also proving a powerful tool for sharing the uplifting […]
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