Jeffrey D. Sachs
Trump said that he never saw these reports and memos. I believe Trump on this. He is an absentee president, other than for his rallies, reality TV "briefings," and golf games. (Photo: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)
Sarah Anderson
There is some hope of bipartisan potential for Jayapal’s plan. (Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Monday joined growing demands for providing debt relief to developing countries that are struggling economically amid the coronavirus pandemic as economists warn the world could be facing the worst recession since the 1930s.
Bob Lord, Chuck Collins
Central to the program should be a tax that limits the further accumulation—that is, hoarding—of wealth by the billionaire class. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
"It's unconscionable that Senate Republicans chose to protect corporate America over families in the last rescue package."
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"All it took was a pandemic and closing all the schools."
Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Celine McNicholas
The pandemic has exposed the inadequacy of our current system of worker protections. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"If we can find the resources to bail out the cruise and airline industries and other big corporations, we can support the people who risk their lives every day to care for the ill, stock store shelves, and care for children."
Tim Koechlin
.If we "re-open" the economy too soon or without ample regard for the public health risks, the price will be paid by millions of workers and elderly people—disproportionately people of color, undocumented residents and other vulnerable, disempowered people. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)
Common Dreams staff
Former Democratic primary rivals hold joint livestream to denounce Trump, discuss battle against coronavirus, and call for unity against unprecedented threats.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"At the bare minimum, we should aspire to be better than what we have been before," says New York Democrat in new interview. "People need to feel hope."
Julia Conley, staff writer
As inaction from the U.S. Congress and the Trump administration threatened the survival of the U.S. Postal Service, Americans stepped in this weekend to help protect one of the oldest federal agencies in the nation from a demise that the coronavirus pandemic has made increasingly likely.
Mark Green
"We are paying far too high a price for his impulse to cater to his self-interest and not the public interest," writes Green. "Trump must get out, whether by the 25th amendment, resignation, or defeat." (Image: Public Citizen/CD/CC BY 3.0)
Randall Amster
This millennium has wired us into a pervasive system of individuated connection, making it a perfect precursor to the requisite high-tech sequestration at hand. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Khury Petersen-Smith
Nationalism will only make a global pandemic worse. We are all in this together, and our foreign policies should reflect that. (Photo: via EuroYankee)
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Rajan Menon
No one knows just how bad things could get, how many people will succumb to Covid-19, or what heights the jobless rate will reach, but of this much we can be certain: the virus’s wave hasn’t crested yet and may not for weeks, or even months. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Juan Cole
Fauci (above) is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and heads up the Trump administration’s Covid-19 task force. (Photo: CNN)
Jon Queally, staff writer
"Trump could well get tired of being contradicted by Dr. Fauci, and we know he fires people at the drop of a hat."
