Miles Mogulescu
Right now, working people in the United States face the agonizing choice of going to jobs, if they still have jobs, or becoming destitute. (Photo: James Barragan / Facebook / cc)
Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care
Severe delays in making coronavirus testing widely available has led the U.S. to drastically undercount the number of deaths from the coronavirus, public health experts say. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Ten years after the nation's worst oil disaster, the impacts remain, but the Trump adminstration moves to expand dangerous drilling.
Julia Conley, staff writer
Despite President Donald Trump's efforts to prop up oil prices in recent weeks, economists were stunned Monday to see the price of U.S. crude oil collapse to below zero for the first time on record—falling to negative-$37 and forcing oil producers to pay buyers to take the product off their hands.
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Gwynne Dyer
Fauci has become a familiar figure standing beside Donald Trump at media briefings, never openly contradicting him but subtly trying to steer him away from his worst ideas. (Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The company, which is owned by Amazon, uses factors like race, turnover, and "loyalty" to determine each store's score.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I'm not here for a $5 bill. And I will not insult my community with one."
Harvey Wasserman
We have just 6.5 months to save our species. (Photo: Barron Ludlum/Yahoo)
Rebecca Gordon
For him, governing is nothing but a performance. (Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
Stephen Kinzer
To many around the world, we appear dangerously disoriented, eager to spend mind-boggling amounts of money to fight distant and half-imagined military threat, but not so interested in saving lives here and now. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Julia Conley, staff writer
While human rights groups and a number of U.S. allies have expressed support for the U.N.'s call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. and Russia are reportedly standing in the way of an international agreement.
Heather Mallick
I wish one of the extremely rich, white men physically close to Trump at his daily pep rally would turn to him on camera and say “No. You’re a president, not a king, you’re a crook and a phony and a moron, too mean and stupid to be allowed to destroy the nation we love.” (cc/DonkeyHotey)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The federal covid response has entered a new phase of political sadism."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our job now is to join the rest of the industrialized world and pass the Paycheck Security Act."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
The House Speaker's selection of Rep. Donna Shalala for the oversight role "makes a mockery" of the congressional committee, said one critic.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When they're telling us not to contribute to what they're seeing in the hospital every day, listen."
