Jon Queally, staff writer
"Instead of forcing American taxpayers to spend $500 billion subsidizing a fund for Secretary Mnuchin, that money would be far better spent going directly back to the people."
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Tarah Walsh
What we need now more than ever is social movements to advocate for solutions that will protect all of us, not just the business sector. (Photo: La Via Campesina)
Julia Conley, staff writer
As economists warned that millions of Americans abruptly lost their jobs this month due to the coronavirus Medicare for All advocates pointed to the crisis as the latest evidence that the U.S. must abandon the for-profit healthcare system.
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Only the most radical reset, akin to a post-world war overhaul of the international economy, will allow us to rebuild the international economy in a way which means we can tackle future pandemics."
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"An absurd demonstration of Washington's gangsterism."
Chema Vera
People wearing face masks sit on seats with signs telling travellers where they may sit, in order to observe social distancing rules amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on March 25, 2020. (Photo: Jack Taylor/AFP/Getty Images)
Tom Gallagher
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks to supporters at an Immigration Town Hall in San Ysidro, California on December 20, 2019. (Photo: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images)
Debra Gore-Mann, Adam Briones
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks with reporters during her weekly press conference at the US Capitol March 26, 2020, in Washington, DC. - The US Senate unanimously passed the nation's largest-ever rescue package late March 25, 2020, a $2 trillion lifeline to suffering Americans, critically depleted hospitals and an economy ravaged by a rapidly spreading coronavirus crisis. The measure now heads to the House of Representatives, where a Democratic leader said... Читать дальше...
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The Morning Consult/Politico poll comes as a top Trump administration health official says of the outbreak, "You don't make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline."
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"How wonderful is this. A beautiful silver lining."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They're going to give nearly unchecked power to dole out trillions of dollars to a guy who just called over 3 million new unemployment claims 'not relevant.'"
Mike Lofgren
The coronavirus pandemic is just a symptom of systemic problems the industries cannot resolve.
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Julia Conley, staff writer
"Raise your hand if you think humans deserve a rent holiday as much as the Cheesecake Factory does."
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Jesse Jackson
We should act now to ensure that incarceration does not turn into a death sentence for them. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Robert Reich
The market has been organized to serve the wealthy. (Photo: peoplesworld/flickr/cc)
Jill Richardson
Unsurprisingly, a government simulation exercise just last year found we were not prepared for a pandemic. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"I feel like an art lover wandering through the Louvre... as it burns to the ground," says one observer of the coral damage.
