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Jon Queally, staff writer
"Federal holidays should celebrate our heritage and culture, but also honor the struggles that led to society as we know it."
Jon Queally, staff writer
"Federal holidays should celebrate our heritage and culture, but also honor the struggles that led to society as we know it."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The list of what is at stake if Republicans get their way is truly staggering."
Maya Evans
Afghan children play in the bombed out rubble of the Darul Aman Palace in Kabul, amidst a photo exhibition marking four decades of Afghans killed in war and oppression. (Photo: Maya Evans)
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Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"In Gaza, people are going through the garbage," said Philippe Lazzarini. "More people are fighting to provide one or two meals a day to their families."
Phyllis Bennis
A man walks past a mural painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran, on September 29, 2020. - For Iran, struggling from sanctions imposed under Washington's policy of "maximum pressure", the US presidential race raises hope of change—but also fears that life could get even worse. (Photo: Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images)
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We're becoming desensitized to unacceptable burdens on the franchise," one political scientist said. "People died for this right. [It] shouldn't take hours to participate in our democracy."
Robert Freeman
In the past two weeks, we have witnessed the Wizard of Oz moment of the 2020 presidential election. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Rejecting any chance at a deal now means asking these struggling families to hold on for another couple of months before they get any help."
Norman Solomon
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the William Hicks Anderson Community Center, on July 28, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images)
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Rio Tinto must acknowledge, and seek to correct, the unequal bargaining positions that have always resulted in a disadvantage for Traditional Owners."
Robert Reich
Trump’s 5th Avenue principle has kept him in power despite deprivation and death that would have doomed the presidencies of anyone else. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
John Buell
Amy Coney Barrett. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Thom Hartmann
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) conducts a news conference after the Senate Republican Policy luncheon in the Hart Building on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Nicolas J.S. Davies, Medea Benjamin
The legacy of Donald Trump remains one of continued U.S. wars and aggression, backed by a bloated military budget. (Photo: Flickr / U.S. Air Force photo / Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall)
Edgar Villanueva
Columbus’s "discovery" of the Americas was no discovery at all. (Photo: Victoria Pickering/flickr/cc)
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Especially in the midst of a health and economic emergency, public money must be used to boost existing solutions that will create new jobs and support the people most impacted."
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Mike Lofgren
Biden must call on federal workers to ignore illegal orders and faithfully serve the Constitution.
