Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The prospect of a nuclear disaster prompting a mass evacuation during a viral pandemic reinforces the need for an energy policy focused on safe, clean and affordable renewable energy."
Julia Conley, staff writer
On social media Friday, author Anand Giridharadas shared what he called an "end-of-empire" video featuring a number of people refusing to wear face masks in public places, coughing on others, and claiming their "freedom" is being trampled by public health guidance.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A New York-based Jewish advocacy group is among those calling out President Donald Trump for praising the "good bloodlines" of American industrialist and infamous anti-Semite Henry Ford during a Thursday night speech at a Ford Motor Company plant in Michigan.
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Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It was a death sentence."
Kelly Trout
A return to “normal” in governments’ policies towards fossil fuel production—which were largely still enabling its expansion—is out of the question. To “build back better,” governments must exit the unstable boom-bust cycles of extraction, and instead manage its phase-out in a predictable, people-centered, and Paris-proof way. (Photo: Pixabay.com)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the world recognized the International Day for Biological Diversity on Friday, the youth-led Fridays for Future movement sent an open letter to European Union leaders demanding a transformation of the economic and political coalition's agricultural policies to tackle the intertwined biodiversity and climate crises.
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Oil and gas corporations already pay pennies compared to what they make in profits from plundering public lands—land that belongs to the American people—and now they'll pay even less."
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Oil and gas corporations already pay pennies compared to what they make in profits from plundering public lands—land that belongs to the American people—and now they'll pay even less."
Luciana Tellez-Chavez
In addition to contributing to climate change, forest fires present a more immediate and very grave threat to public health. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Guatemala is an ally to the United States, the United States is not an ally to Guatemala," said President Alejandro Giammattei.
Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Katitza Rodriguez, Svea Windwehr
While location surveillance is problematic at any time, the coronavirus crisis has led to a rapid uptick in its use; many measures to facilitate it have been passed by fast-tracked legislative procedures during national state of emergencies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Kotecki)
Robert Reich
Systematic inequality in America has produced two very different pandemics. (Photo: Screenshot/Youtube)
Jules Boykoff
A homeless man walks down the street in the Montclair district of Oakland, Calif., on Monday, May 18, 2019. Unhoused people across the U.S. are among the most vulnerable to the pandemic, but there are ways to ease their burdens amid the crisis—and for the long term. (Photo: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We are witnessing the complete breakdown of the United States government."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If there was ever hope for this drug, this is the death of it."
Mitchell Plitnick
Speaking in a web broadcast organized by the so-called Democratic Majority for Israel, Blinken stated bluntly that Biden "would not tie military assistance to Israel to any political decisions it makes, full stop."(Photo: Matt Smith Photographer / Shutterstock)
Julianne Tveten
New York Times depiction (4/10/20) of Voice of America‘s studio (Photo: Jason Andrew).
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"With seniors most at risk from Covid-19, we need to be increasing Social Security's modest benefits, not creating secret commissions to cut them."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I think the message he sent is the same message since he first took office in 2017, which is, 'I don't care about you.'"
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I personally get really sick and tired of turning on the TV and seeing these companies run these ads, 'Thank you heroes and heroines, but of course we're not going to pay you any more money.'"
