Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Progressives in Congress introduced on Thursday the Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act, legislation that aims to improve rights and benefits of laborers who often face financial insecurity and poor health issues associated with precarious job conditions and low pay.
Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof
As his defense team argues U.S. effort to get their hands on Assange is clearly political in nature, the defendant complains to court he is being prevented from meeting privately to consult with his lawyers.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Anton Gunn, a longtime South Carolina political operative, is on the board of anti-Bernie Sanders group the Democratic Majority for Israel.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Young people should not be underestimated—we have a voice and we are strong."
David Goodner
Supporters arrive to attend ahead of the Bernies Back rally in Queens, NY, on October 19, 2019. (Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Sarah Anderson, Brian Wakamo
The upcoming Super Tuesday primaries will include two states — Colorado and Utah — that have shifted completely to vote at home systems, as well as California, which has allowed counties to run all-mail elections for years and is transitioning into a fully vote at home system in the next few years. (Photo: Getty Images)
Karen Greenberg
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on October 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Michelle Bachelet, the top human rights official for the United Nations, condemned the Trump administration for the rights violations caused by President Donald Trump's anti-immigration and anti-climate science policies, including the U.S. in an accounting of major human rights threats around the world.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
At a Thursday event celebrating the one-year anniversary of House Democrats introducing landmark Medicare for All legislation in the U.S. House, the bill's sponsors and medical and policy experts made the case that establishing a national single-payer healthcare system is essential for racial equity.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The Organization of American States "greatly misled the media and the public about what happened in Bolivia's elections."
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The Organization of American States "greatly misled the media and the public about what happened in Bolivia's elections."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"One of the things that we've found as we've gone around in South Carolina and elsewhere, talking to working people of all sorts, is that people do understand that nobody loves their insurance company."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Support for a wealth tax to combat persistent inequality in the U.S. is growing, according to a new poll released Wednesday by TheHill/HarrisX. The survey found that just over two-thirds of Americans favor a tax on the wealthiest households, including majorities of Democrats and Independents.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate campaingers celebrated an "amazing and historic win" Thursday after a United Kingdom court ruled against plans to build a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport because the government's approval of the expansion "had not taken into account its own firm policy commitments on climate change under the Paris agreement."
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Meagan Day, Micah Uetricht
The authors of the new book, "How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism," explain what is so vital about the "Not Me Us" mantra of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign and why the politics of democratic socialism have a serious foothold in the United States after nearly a century of dormancy. (Image: Cover detail / Verso Books)
Robert C. Koehler
Democratic presidential candidates participate the presidential primary debate at the Charleston Gaillard Center on February 25, 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Democrats might be able to stop Sanders, but in doing so they would destroy their party's own electoral prospects."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This decision could cost people their lives. Pence's past decisions already have."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is what happens when you put a Big Pharma CEO who doubled the price of insulin in charge of regulating Big Pharma."
Jon Queally, staff writer
The 2020 Democratic frontrunner said the president is "trying to dismantle the right to a free press in the First Amendment by suing the New York Times for publishing an opinion column about his dangerous relationship with Russia."
Jon Queally, staff writer
The 2020 Democratic frontrunner said the president is "trying to dismantle the right to a free press in the First Amendment by suing the New York Times for publishing an opinion column about his dangerous relationship with Russia."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Two days before IfNotNow members were set to protest at Sen. Amy Klobuchar's presidential campaign headquarters in Minneapolis to demand the senator skip this year's AIPAC conference, the senator and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg both announced that they would not attend the Israel lobby's meeting this year.
