Cynthia Kaufman
To me the most misplaced invective is the treatment given to Bill McKibben. He comes across in the film as dishonest and corrupt. And yet he has done more for the climate justice movement than almost anyone else in the world. (Photo: Screenshot)
Les Leopold
By Election Day, we may have suffered more than 100,000 U.S. dead, twice the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War. It will be extremely difficult for Trump to spin away the horrific human cost. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Bernie Sanders
For the duration of this crisis, under the act, Medicare will cover all medically necessary health care, including prescription drugs, for the uninsured, whether those who have recently lost their jobs or those who have been long without insurance. (Photo: Sally Prevost/flickr/cc)
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Trump deflecting blame for his handling of the pandemic onto the WHO and making Yemenis pay for it in the end."
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Throughout, the filmmakers twist basic facts, misleading the public about who is responsible for the climate crisis."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the year's first major meeting of climate ministers—held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic—wrapped up Tuesday, climate campaigners welcomed world leaders' calls for a "green recovery" from the ongoing public health crisis but demanded that the lofty rhetoric be matched by ambitious, detailed plans and actions.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Republicans already basically dismiss sexual assault allegations against their co-partisans out of hand; if Democrats do the same for the leader of their party it will do a great deal to move us back to the pre-#MeToo past."
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If $600 a week is a big raise, that's because workers were undervalued."
Katherine Van Wormer
My mind turns to the Great Depression, too, but to a source that is often overlooked—to older black women who grew up during that time in the rural South. (Photo: Bettmann / Contributor)
Leah Garcés
We must overhaul this system that treats animals like widgets rather than the sentient beings they are. (Photo: KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Jesse Jackson
Prisoners increasingly are protesting their conditions, objecting to being sentenced to die in prison. (Photo: http://organizingcatholicsforjustice.org)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It was made complicated so people would get discouraged and give up."
Michael T. Klare
It does appear that the present still-raging pandemic is forcing dramatic shifts in the way we consume energy and that many of these changes are likely to persist in some fashion long after the virus has been tamed. (Photo: Brian Katt, Wikimedia Commons)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Lockdowns around the world triggered by the coronavirus pandemic could contribute to millions more cases of gender-based violence, child marriages, female genital mutilation, and unintended pregnancies resulting from lack of access to contraceptives in the months ahead, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
Ralph Nader
Today’s nutritionists have pronounced this Mediterranean diet to be just about the healthiest diet in the world. (Photo by Reza/Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined forces on Tuesday to propose a bill that would ban mergers and acquisitions while the U.S. is facing the coronavirus pandemic.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The new quarterly report on casualties comes a month after U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global ceasefire amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Derrick Z. Jackson
The decline of EPA enforcement that has already occurred should serve as a harbinger of what is to come if this new rule dictates which water the government chooses to protect.(Photo: pxfuel)
Ben Zipperer, Elise Gould
An estimated 24.4 million workers filed for unemployment benefits from March 15 through April 18. (Photo: Kena Betancu/AFP via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is one of the most appalling things I've heard in the context of this crisis."
