Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This isn't good."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Whoever would have imagined this relationship would prove complicated and fraught? Oh, right, the Founders. Who prohibited it. In the Constitution."
Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Julia Conley, staff writer
Small businesses filed class-action lawsuits against three large banks Monday, accusing them of manipulating the application process for a government program aimed at providing relief for small companies.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We think this is a power play on the part of the governor."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Post Office will likely run out of money sometime between July and September of this year. If they run out of money, then the people lose the service."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Hundreds of Amazon workers from across the U.S. on Tuesday called in sick to demand better safety standards at the ecommerce giant's warehouses, in the largest coordinated action at the company since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We're flat broke. We don't know what's gonna happen."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Democratic lawmakers and climate advocates on Tuesday condemned an announcement on Twitter from President Donald Trump that he had directed the U.S. Departments of Energy and the Treasury to make funding available to American oil and gas companies negatively impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are here because our colleagues are dying. I think that right now people think of us as heroes, but we're feeling like martyrs. We're feeling like we're being left on the battlefield with nothing."
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
As we struggle to emerge from today’s tragic pandemic, more and more Americans are understanding that healing our sick, corrupt political system is the vital key to a healthy and peaceful future. (Photo: Daily Express)
Jesse Jackson
Prisons and jails are virtual petri dishes for the virus. Social distancing is impossible. Soap and water are often not available. (Photo: Robyn Beck / AFP - Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Top food security experts at the United Nations on Tuesday will present to the U.N. Security Council a new report on how the coronavirus pandemic could double the number of people around the world suffering from acute hunger unless wealthy countries step up humanitarian aid immediately.
Mike Lofgren
Protests against COVID-19 restrictions, like the Tea Party protests, are corporate fronts.
Juan Cole
The -$36.63 price for a barrel of oil is already probably overly optimistic. (Photo: Screenshot)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Press freedom in the United States continued to suffer during President Donald Trump's third year in office," RSF added in its annual Press Freedom Index.
Pierre Tristam
It took a few days for this latest unpresidential derangement syndrome to seem like it was working itself out, so that by Thursday Bubo-in-Chief was punting the decision back to governors as his transformation of America into the Houston Astrodome circa 2005 pivoted to fresher scapegoats. (Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate activists from across the globe on Tuesday welcomed an ambitious new plan for Milan that will, according to the Guardian, transform 22 miles of street space currently reserved for cars "with a rapid, experimental citywide expansion of cycling and walking space to protect residents as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted."
Rev Dr Liz Theoharis
The dual crises of pandemic and inequality are revealing ever more clearly how the descent into poverty is helping to destroy American society from the inside out. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Michael Winship
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)
Yanis Varoufakis
Critics of the “frugal” northern EU governments point out some striking disparities. Photo: Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is impossible to tell from the outside if this latest outrage is the result of incompetence, mean-spiritedness, or both."
