Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We've broken the climate system. We are in a climate emergency."
Sarah Anderson
The Wisconsin initiative is not the first time farmers have joined with meatpacking workers to demand stronger COVID-19 protections. (Photo: TumblingRun/flickr/cc)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Several public health experts who have spent this year watching as President Donald Trump has ignored, refuted, and openly mocked their guidance on the coronavirus pandemic are among those interviewed in a new documentary titled "Totally Under Control."
Jill Richardson
Our electoral system is riddled with policies that amount to little more than voter suppression. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Ann Wright
The law does not require the United States to defend Taiwan if China attacks, but it also doesn’t rule it out—a policy known as strategic ambiguity. (Photo: U.S. Navy photo)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It appears that—prior to, and during the pandemic—Disney took good care of its top executives and shareholders—and now is hanging its front-line workers out to dry."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is in the interest of progressive Democrats to show that government can be a force of good, and this is the time for us to act."
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The forever war outlasting the NYT section on the forever war is a very forever war thing to happen."
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Tony Norman
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. (Photo: JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We expect this decline to continue," predicted one of the study's authors, who said that unless urgent climate action is taken, "the reef will be unrecognizable."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Following its viral video promoting Sen. Ed Markey's Democratic primary campaign, the Sunrise Movement released an ad in support of another vocal Green New Deal champion—Mike Siegel, who is running to oust Republican Rep. Michael McCaul in Texas' 10th congressional district.
Steven Hill
Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett puts her mask on during her Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. Barrett was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away in September. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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Christopher D. Cook
It's Biden, or four more years of Trumpian nightmare, death, and brutality. (Photo: Ron Adar / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
Les Leopold
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers in New York City were among those on the early frontlines of the national coronavirus pandemic when it first struck in March of 2020. (Photo: Andrew Cashin / MTA New York City Transit / flickr / cc)
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Public health evidence is clear: Eviction increases Covid-19 deaths and spread."
Robert Reich
The Constitution doesn’t prevent increasing the size of the Supreme Court in order to balance it. (Photo: Peoples World/flickr/cc)
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We have not received a direct commitment from Secretary Esper that he will refuse commands from an illegitimate president," lamented Rep. Mikie Sherrill.
Julia Conley, staff writer
Public health experts raised alarm over reports that the White House has embraced a declaration calling for a "herd immunity" approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic, put forward by scientists whose views have been denounced as "fringe" by National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins.
Charles P. Pierce
Whitehouse came prepared. (Photo: Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you asked me to go and live downwind [of fracking sites], I would not go," said the lead author of the new study.
