Julia Conley, staff writer
Three Democratic lawmakers aimed on Tuesday to fill the gaps in the House bill passed last week and amended late Monday, which leaves millions of Americans out of its paid sick leave provision.
Sarah Anderson
Sara Nelson, the dynamic president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, has made a powerful case for direct payroll subsidies to the employees who keep our airline industry passengers flying and safe, everyone from flight attendants and pilots to security screeners and wheelchair attendants. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
Kathy Kelly
Protester’s sign decries sanctions, “a silent war” (Photo: Campaign for Peace and Democracy, 2013)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The mayor's comments come as Gov. Cuomo says peak of infectious outbreak could still be 45 days away.
Mike Pappas
They aren’t testing a handful of people who might be positive. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In this time of crisis, my office will not add undue stress or saddle New Yorkers with unnecessary financial burden."
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Seventeen years later, the consequences of the Iraq invasion have lived up to the fears of all who opposed it. (Photo: Alisdare Hickson/flickr/cc)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Whether it be coronavirus or our global climate crisis, we cannot shut down. Instead, we must shift our energies and efforts to new ways to mobilize the world to action."
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Good," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Now we must suspend student loan payments."
Adam Hochschild
Though few remember it today, exactly 100 years ago, this country’s media was laboring under the kind of official censorship that would undoubtedly thrill both Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo. (Photo: Tuan Mark/Getty Images)
Josue De Luna Navarro
Rich or poor, Americans already spend more on medicine than any other people in the world. (Photo: Elvert Barnes/flickr/cc)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"There is no *good* coronavirus plan unless it includes compensation for these 18% of workers. Full stop."
Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
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Kevin Martin
More war is never a good answer, and it makes even less sense at this time. (Photo: Erich Ferdinand/flickr/cc)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise in Iran, one of the world's most impacted countries, global pressure is mounting on the Trump administration to ease economic sanctions that Iranian officials and other critics charge has hampered the government's ability to manage the public health crisis.
Julia Conley, staff writer
The union representing flight attendants called on Congress to ensure airline workers—not executives and shareholder profits—are at the center of the effort to shore up the industry.
Josh Bivens
Once the current crisis has passed, we will need a thorough diagnosis of just why the U.S. economy and society was so fragile to this shock. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is not getting enough attention."
Negin Owliaei
Ensuring access to water as a human right is crucial, especially given the number of localities across the United States grappling with privatized water during a public health emergency. (Photo: uusc4all/flickr/cc)
Edna Bonhomme
A Syrian refugee woman puts a face mask on a boy as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus, in al-Wazzani area, in southern Lebanon on March 14, 2020 (Photo: Ali Hashisho/Reuters)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Officials who promised that they had extremely serious plans to make voting in person in the middle of a pandemic safe were not telling the truth."
Julie Hollar
When the playing field is so wildly tilted to start with, loss is hardly indicative of being out of touch with voters’ preferences. (Photo: Marc Nozell/cc/flickr)
Robert Reich
The Fed can close banks to quarantine financial crises but the US can’t close workplaces because the nation’s social insurance system depends on people going to work. (Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
