Julia Conley, staff writer
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced angry New Yorkers who called in to the "Ask the Mayor" segment on WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show" on Friday, demanding answers about the mayor's response to racial justice protests in the city.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The rising number of confirmed Covid-19 cases and related deaths in Brazil is leading to further condemnation of how President Jair Bolsonaro has responded to the pandemic—which, as of Friday afternoon, had left over 34,000 Brazilians dead and nearly 615,000 infected, according to the Johns Hopkins global tracker.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"So is 57 officers resigning at once just a few bad apples?"
Laura R. Olson
Public opinion polls have consistently shown that white Christians comprise the core of Trump’s base, although there are recent signs of a dip even among this key group. (Photo: CC)
Camillo Mac Bica
He said that no species or people are chosen and no nation exceptional. (Photo: Creative Commons)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Racial justice advocates on Friday demanded the three Louisville police officers who shot Breonna Taylor to death in March be fired immediately and criminally charged for Taylor's murder.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As a pandemic that's killed over 393,000 people rages on and demonstrations demanding racial justice continue across the globe, the international community on Friday marked World Environment Day with scientifically supported warnings about the importance of protecting nature for the future of humanity.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"A truly stunning level of tone-deafness."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is exactly backwards, like stopping an antibiotic prematurely because you start to feel better."
Joel Wendland-Liu
As the protests spread to every state and were met with violent police aggression, mass arrests, beatings, attacks with rubber bullets and truncheons, the sympathy for protest also spread. (Photo: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Small businesses are "dropping like flies," said the "Mad Money" host.
Hayley Brown, Shawn Fremstad
To increase the power, economic security, and well-being of today’s working-class, we must increase the power, economic security, and well-being of Black people. (Photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We're at the point of saturation. The question is, when is it enough?"
Simon Whalley
Meeting violence with violence is wrong they say. Yet, many of these same people also believe that kneeling for a song to be the wrong type of protest. (Photo: Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Aiming to "dismantle" the Minneapolis Police Department, city councilors on Friday will vote on imposing a temporary restraining order for the city's police department in response to the killing of George Floyd last month.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is unquestionably an alarming sign."
David Masciotra
Twenty years later, on the streets of Minneapolis, the song once again rings true.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the U.S. military in response to ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism in cities across the country, a group of Democratic senators on Thursday introduced legislation to curb the president's power to do so under the Insurrection Act of 1807.
Vandana Shiva
The game billionaires play is not worthy of being called economy, either as care for the home, or as the art of living. It is exractive, naked money making, at war with life and creativity. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is suspension of habeas corpus, it is unconstitutional," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Rev. John Dear
The only thing missing in Trump’s photo was his white hood. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Absolutely horrific."
