Ilana Novick
"The gap between rich and poor can’t be resolved without deliberate inequality-busting policies." (Photo: blind.fortune / Flick)
Alison Rose Levy
Clinton’s combination of entitlement, arrogance and low self-esteem have prevented her from taking stock. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In response to a New York Times report Thursday about mounting concerns from investors and market experts that the climate crisis could cause the next economic meltdown, environmentalists reiterated calls for financial institutions to cut ties with the fossil fuel companies that pollute the planet and drive global heating.
Julia Conley, staff writer
To effectively combat economic inequality and even the playing field between corporations and the people they employ to run their operations, a new report argues, the U.S. must entirely overhaul labor laws to provide a "clean slate" for all workers.
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We've long suspected he would try to gut Medicare in a second term."
Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Courtney Bourgoin
Brown bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska (Photo: Shutterstock)
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Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It doesn't take a college degree in economics to realize that our remaining 1.5° carbon budget and ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and investments don't add up."
Negin Owliaei
Sanctions starve our people of food, medicine, and safety while public figures threaten us with more violence. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Citing the worsening nuclear threat and inaction on the climate crisis, scientists issue a historic warning about the risk of global catastrophe.
Bill Blum
What the Republicans want is not a fair trial but a cover-up. And a cover-up is the last thing the nation needs at this critical juncture in its history. (Photo: Saul Loeb/Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Prepare for establishment meltdown."
Stephen Zunes
U.S. troops train some 25 miles from the Iraqi border, near Camp New York, on January 21, 2003, in Kuwait, Iraq. (Photo: Gilles Bassignac / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Robert C. Koehler
This nation’s lack of atonement for its past—combined with the endless wars it is currently waging—make King’s legacy profoundly problematic, by which I mean relevant. (Photo: Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Here's what Mnuchin learned from economics studies: he ran a company that booted elderly residents from their homes due to onerous loans and technicalities."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
In a tweet thanking Dalhi Myers for her endorsement, Sanders wrote, "Together, we will defeat the most dangerous president in modern history."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever sludge or slime they wished into the streams and wetlands that often connect to the water we drink."
Jon Queally, staff writer
As the corporate and Democratic Party establishment lash out at the progressive 2020 candidate, #ILikeBernie and #IEndorseBernie show Sanders movement's ability to fight back.
Joshua Cho
"Headlines typically draw in readers or viewers by including the most relevant and interesting information," writes Cho. "When only 40% of the US public read past the headlines, that means a good majority of readers have their worldviews shaped by the short bits of stories editors choose to highlight." (Collage: FAIR)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Why did Joe Biden join Republicans to attack benefits for seniors?"
Julia Conley, staff writer
Nabilah Islam, a progressive Democrat running for Congress in Georgia's 7th district, is one of more than 100,000 people in her community who lack health insurance—and she is preparing to ask the Federal Election Commission to help allow more working Americans run for public office by allowing candidates to pay for health insurance using campaign funds.
