Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This guy is nothing if not a skilled provocateur."
Bernie Sanders
President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Bill Barr, speaks at the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 23, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday reached out to Sen. Bernie Sanders' supporters and asked for their backing in the general election against President Donald Trump.
Dan Brook
It has never been about whether the US could afford a progressive program; it has always been about whether the elite wanted to or were forced to fund it. It is an issue of political will, apparently, not economic means. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"That Trump is using a pandemic to cover for his attack on democracy should send a chill down the spine of every patriotic American."
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Anneliese Lederer
Our weak public health, education, child care, and unemployment benefits, among other things, left the nation one crisis away from bringing down the entire economy. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Jill Richardson
This election was a sham. It will cost votes—and lives. (Photo: Shutterstock)
F. Douglas Stephenson
To protect profits, the private health insurance industry and their Congressional supporters continue strongly opposing Medicare for All. (Photo: National Nurses United/flickr/cc)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
In a speech to supporters Wednesday, Sanders promised that the "struggle continues."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The end of Bernie Sanders' second campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday provoked an immediate wave of praise from climate campaigners for the Vermont senator's ambitious plans to address the planetary emergency and calls for former Vice President Joe Biden, now the party's presumed nominee, to embrace his ex-rival's progressive proposals.
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Let us go forward together. The struggle continues."
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Julia Conley, staff writer
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order banning abortion care in the state during the coronavirus pandemic, making the procedure illegal in most cases in the state for the first time since before Roe vs. Wade was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.
Jon Queally, staff writer
"It was a good campaign against the odds in every single way and has clearly changed the course of history for the better."
Bill Quigley
Medical personnel talk at a drive-thru Coronavirus COVID-19 testing station at West Jefferson Medical Centeron March 17, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana. West Jefferson Medical Center has opened a drive-thru Coronavirus test station where patients who are exhibiting signs and symptoms of the Coronavirus can be referred by a physician to be tested. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
Adam Parsons
The one certainty is that the most vulnerable and excluded members of society will suffer the worst consequences, as with all economic crises. (Photo: Giacomo Carra on Unsplash)
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
The Let My People Go campaign is a Jewish-led bond fund effort organized by New Sanctuary, Never Again Action, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, and Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, intended to free as many immigrant detainees as possible. (Image: Let My People Go Campaign)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As governments across the globe continue to grapple with how to best provide economic relief to workers and businesses impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a new report from the United Nations labor agency warns that the public health crisis could cause working hours worldwide to decline by 6.7% in the second quarter of this year—the equivalent of 195 million full-time jobs.
Jim Hightower
To have a People's government, we must build it. (Photo: julian meehan/flickr/cc)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Without a substantial, immediate response that addresses the magnitude of this problem, our small business sector will be devastated."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Nothing to do with helping workers and everything to do with undermining Social Security."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump's baseless attacks on vote-by-mail are a pathetic attempt to suppress the vote in the middle of a national crisis."
