Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Would a cross burning have been too subtle?"
Rick Claypool
Can we trust corporations on their own to implement adequate protections against spread of the coronavirus? (Photo: CC)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Facial recognition technology violates the privacy and civil liberties of Americans, and deepens racial bias in policing."
Jeremy Brecher
Black Lives Matter mural being painted on a street of Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo: Office of Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Wikimedia Commons)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Progressive critics and advocacy groups are responding with alarm and anger to the Trump administration's refusal to disclose the names of more than 4.5 million companies that have collectively received over $500 billion in corporate bailout money through a federal program created to provide businesses with relief from the coronavirus pandemic.
Julia Conley, staff writer
Amnesty International on Thursday presented the findings of a year-long study of the global tear gas trade, which the group says is fueling human rights violations all over the world with little oversight and regulation of the use of tear gas.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The Trump administration's contempt for the global rule of law is plain."
Ralph Nader
Demonstrators attend a "Sit Out the Curfew" protest on June 3 in Oakland against the police killing of George Floyd. (Photo: Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's a powerful thing for us to be able to dismantle the entire building of this country, the truths and the untruths that have been told about Christopher Columbus."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is nothing more than trying to rig an election."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Kentucky's highest-circulation newspaper, the Courier-Journal, offered the latest high-profile endorsement of state legislator Charles Booker in the Democratic primary for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's long-held Senate seat, saying Booker has the "vision" his more moderate opponent lacks.
Michael T. Klare
Here’s another thing a new Cold War guarantees: a significant increase in military spending at a time of ballooning national debt and a desperate need for investment in domestic economic recovery. (Photo: Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images)
Heidi Shierholz
Policymakers need to do much, much more to fight this recession and set our economy up for a strong recovery, which will not happen without intervention. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a decision celebrated by international human rights advocates, a European court ruled Thursday that the conviction of 11 activists in France campaigning for a boycott of Israeli goods in solidarity with Palestinians "had no relevant and sufficient grounds" and violated their right to freedom of expression.
Michael Winship
It’s past time for a radical restructuring of criminal justice.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The Trump administration is doubling down on a xenophobic, anti-immigrant agenda while the president is fueling violence against Black and Brown people in our country with his racist, white supremacist rhetoric."
Norman Solomon
Police officers arrest protesters for breaking the curfew as they continued to protest demanding an end to police brutality and racial injustice over the death of George Floyd on June 4, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Brett Wilkins
Montano (pictured above), who was jailed after his extradition, was part of "a structure outside the law that gravely altered the public peace with executions of civilians and forced disappearances." (Photo: Democracy Now/Creative Commons)
Robert C. Koehler
Demonstrators protest the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer on June 3, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The reality is that facial recognition technology is too dangerous to be used at all."
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