# thinking outside the crisis

Housing is more than a matter of shelter—housing is healthcare. It's time for a northern housing strategy that recognizes this critical connection.

Far from being a "great equalizer," Covid-19 is exposing the deeper inequities in our healthcare systems and the populations they serve.

Hard though it is, we have to shift our economies away from fossil fuels. We are perilously near collapse.

If the pandemic has done anything, it has forced us to think about how societies face a crisis of collapse. We need to escape the…

Even before the pandemic, we were living in a revolutionary age. Now, long-standing injustices and inequalities are amplified by COVID-19.

The way digital information is mobilized during this pandemic highlights the politics of data—even if we often couldn’t see the data itself.

We can *heart* oil and gas all we want—it doesn’t *heart* us back.

This column introduces a series of commentaries that create space for positive futures by thinking against the grain of the pandemic.