Commentary The political hierarchy of infectious disease has finally come full circle. Biden got COVID. COVID pandemic policies have always been driven by class bias. Right from the outset, governments divided people by essential and nonessential, and medical services by elective and nonelective. How all this came to be, and so suddenly, cries out for explanation. But the…

COVID-19 has punctured the livelihood of the poor in India, especially low-income women, most of whom are either deserted, widowed or shouldering the burden of care for their children, the old, and the sick.  The scenario was more evident in rural India, where their mobility and social interactions within the community was impeded by male…

Commentary What have the caste systems of distant places like China and India got to do with the United States? Absolutely everything. In a previous article, I discussed the effects of hukou, China’s brutal caste system. The Chinese method of social stratification rewards only a select few; hundreds of millions of citizens, mainly those from…