Ruth Conniff
President Donald Trump, writes Conniff, "is so godawful, you would think more Republicans would be jumping ship already. But apart from Mitt Romney, Charlie Sykes, and a handful of other principled conservatives, GOP politicians appear to be willing to go all the way to the bottom with their epic failure of a president." (Photo: DonkeyHotey/flickr/cc)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Admission was latest sign that high pressure campaign on Venezuela's leftist government—including crushing economic sanctions—remains.
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"It is sadly predictable that Big Pharma responds to a global pandemic by trying to bring to market only those drugs that maximize its profits."
Julia Conley, staff writer
New legislation put forward by Sens. Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders on Tuesday would curb the use of facial recognition software by corporations, helping to slow the spread of "abusive" surveillance, according to leading privacy advocates.
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act says what we all know to be true: that nerve agents have no place on our food, in our workplaces, and in our communities."
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Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We must not miss this opportunity to rebuild the economy to fulfill our vision of a just and livable world."
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If investors or Kodak employees were trading based on the unauthorized disclosure or discussion of nonpublic information, then it would appear to be a clear violation of securities law. The SEC should hold them accountable."
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The blast sent a shockwave across the city.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"I do not want to be an experiment."
Julia Conley, staff writer
In a report titled, "The World is Watching," Amnesty International USA revealed on Tuesday that U.S. police violated the human rights of protesters, medics, journalists, and other people at least 125 times in the first weeks of the current racial justice uprising.
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The findings from the Knight Foundation and Gallup suggest lack of trust in news media has far-reaching effects.
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Thom Hartmann
"Trump's lies about the coronavirus," writes Hartmann, "are encouraging older people who watch Fox and believe what they see to take chances and expose themselves to the virus and, as a result, they are dying all over the country." (Photo: Piero Cruciatti/AFP via Getty Images)
Bernie Sanders
"Our Masks for All legislation will instruct the Trump administration to utilize the Defense Production Act to produce and deliver three high-quality, reusable masks to every person in the country via the U.S. postal system," explains Sanders. "The masks would also be made available free at testing sites, post offices and pharmacies, as well as homeless shelters, jails, detention centers and other congregate-care settings." (Photo: Lucy Lambriex/iStock/via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's not enough for abortion to be legal. It must also be affordable and available to all people, however much money they have or however they get their insurance."
Andrea Mazzarino
Cmdr. R.J. Zamberlan, the commanding officer of the Navy's newest littoral combat ship, USS Kansas City (LCS 22), reads his orders during the ship’s commissioning ceremony on June 20, 2020 in San Diego, California. (Photo: US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alex Corona)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you wrote this as grotesque farce" for a movie script, wrote actor and progressive activist John Cusack, "no one would believe it."
