Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Deporting people to Haiti in the midst of a global pandemic is both inhumane and unsafe."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
American civil rights groups on Monday moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by the right-wing activist group Judicial Watch that critics warn could result in "the unnecessary and potentially disenfranchising purges" of voter rolls in three Pennsylvania counties ahead of the November elections.
Halah Ahmad
While support for Palestinian self-determination represents a departure from the status quo in US politics, it actually mirrors a shift in opinion among the Democratic Party’s electorate. (Photo: Stop the War UK)
Sarah Anderson
Ordinary Americans of every political stripe, including 90 percent of Republicans and 96 percent of Democrats, support a postal relief package. (Photo: Ron Doke/Flickr/cc)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians can only ever be solved by finding a solution that guarantees peace, security, rights, and dignity to both peoples. Unilaterally seizing territory and ignoring international law achieves precisely the opposite."
Shanna Hanbury
A coral reef in Indonesia. Coral reefs—especially Australia’s Great Barrier Reef—have proven to be very sensitive to climate change. Now scientists are trying to determine the mechanisms for climate ecosystem tipping points, and how fast they will occur around the world. (Photo: HereIsTom on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the coronavirus pandemic continued to devastate local news outlets across the United States—even as some have seen audience and subscription boosts—the group Free Press Action on Monday unveiled a proposal to provide crucial financial relief to newsrooms and reporters while envisioning a more sustainable future for the industry.
James Zogby
The election of Donald Trump was the byproduct of our partisan dysfunction. (Photo: Matthew Busch/Getty Images)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Nothing less than the future of the planet is at stake."
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Leonardo Flores
The townspeople of Chuao, Venezuela, being honored for their role in the capture of eight mercenaries.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We cannot afford to allow the interests of private corporations to supersede the needs of the American people and the long-term stability of our economy."
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Dan Brook
Republicans are always destructive and regressive, both aggressively anti-people and anti-planet, if not individually, then certainly as a party. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a letter Monday to former Vice President Joe Biden, over 50 groups urged the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president to embrace "a principled foreign policy, one that prioritizes diplomacy and multilateralism over militarism."
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Belle Chesler
Perhaps it’s a rare opportunity to acknowledge that our nation’s public schools should not be left so alone to provide food, mental health care, and digital connectivity for our nation’s children. That should be, in a fashion almost unimaginable in America today, the role of the larger society. (Photo: Ryan Stanton/flickr/cc)
Juan Cole
Bush first said he wanted to attack Iraq because it was close to having a nuclear weapon. This was a damned lie. Iraq did not even have an active nuclear research program, and UN inspectors who had been on the ground there until 1998 so attested. (Photo: h/t Wikimedia Commons.)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They took care of their billionaire buddies and Wall Street bankers. Now they're trying to say there's 'not enough' left to help you and your family. It's a lie."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Donald Trump and his administration will stop at nothing to cut Social Security."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Reports of at least two positive coronavirus cases among White House employees illustrated how easily Covid-19 can spread in enclosed workplaces, —deepening concerns about the likely effects of President Donald Trump's aggressive push to reopen the U.S. economy.
