Angela Glover Blackwell, Sarah Treuhaft
The Great Depression: Unemployed men queued outside a soup kitchen in Chicago.
Dave Inder Comar
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House June 20, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Eric Margolis
Major General Qasem Soleimani, pictured here on April 11, 2016, was reportedly assassinated Friday, January 3, 2020 in Iraq. (Photo: Khamenei.ir/cc)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"As a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, the United States has the ability at any time to discuss threats against it. It has chosen not to do this, instead using almost-certainly illegal force against another U.N. member country. The consequences will be grave."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They're lying to distract from impeachment. They're lying to get us to war. They're lying to shore up reelection. Don't buy any of it."
Reese Erlich
President Donald Trump is flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo while making a statement in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on October 23, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly and Maya Evans walk with children at the Chamin-E-Babrak refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 2014. (Photo: Abdulhai Darya)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are still yet to hit the worst of it," said Gladys Berejiklian, premier of New South Wales.
Juan Cole
People gather to stage a protest against the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. airstrike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, after Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran on January 3, 2020. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Stocks for weapons manufacturers began to rise as soon as Soleimani was killed," said Rep. Ro Khanna.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We know that it will ultimately be the children of working-class families who will have to fight and die in a new Middle East conflict—not the children of the billionaire class."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Congress cannot be a bystander," said Quaker lobbying group FCNL. "The #EndlessWars must stop!"
Julia Conley, staff writer
The first #FridaysForFuture protests of the new year and decade coincided with the 17th birthday of Greta Thunberg, who joined fellow young climate action leaders at a demonstration outside Swedish Parliament.
