Rebecca Chowdhury
Organizers, not consultants, delivered key states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia. Democrats ignore this reality at their peril.
Ruth Conniff
In Wisconsin, as elsewhere, the Republicans' false claims of voter fraud are becoming undone.
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Trump along with his worst enablers must be tried for their crimes against our nation and Constitution," the New Jersey Democrat asserted.
Robert Reich
The stakes couldn’t be higher. Let’s bring this home, flip the Senate, and usher in the transformative change this nation requires.
Jesse Jackson
The races will be determined by whether Georgia’s voters choose to embrace and build a New South coalition or revert to the Old South.
Phyllis Bennis
Even a lame-duck Congress must remember their actions have global consequences too.
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is to a truly global catastrophe. But another, bigger, catastrophe has been building for many decades, and humanity is still lagging far behind in efforts to address it."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Today's ruling is a critical step in halting the Trump administration's unprecedented and illegal attempt to expel children under the thin guise of public health."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Momentum grew on Wednesday in support of Rep. Ro Khanna taking over Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's Senate seat for the last two years of her term.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Amid speculation that President-elect Joe Biden may select former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture despite her ties to agribusiness and fossil fuels, more than 50 progressive advocacy groups on Wednesday urged Biden to instead choose Democratic Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio.
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Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Since Covid-19 struck in March, the combined wealth of the 647 richest Americans has increased by nearly $1 trillion, largely at the expense of workers' safety—and sometimes their lives.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Critics called on the Justice Department and various congressional committees to "conduct an immediate and thorough investigation."
Chuck Collins
"Frontline workers are the ones actually creating wealth, only to have it directed into the pockets of the billionaires," writes @Chuck99to1 @IPS_DC
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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
When our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they have no clue why this is how we choose our president.
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Our work in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans shows a dire outlook for coral reef ecosystem health, from warming ocean waters, fishing, disease, and pollution from the land."
Jonathan Cook
We can listen to Greta, without fear, without reproach, without adulation, without cynicism. Or we can carry on with our insane games until the bubble explodes.
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"With no end to the pandemic in sight, and a cutoff of nearly all federal unemployment benefits by year's end looming on the horizon, inaction by Congress could mean that millions of American families will enter the New Year with little or no means of support."
Christopher D. Cook
We cannot afford an old-school agriculture secretary who maintains today’s disastrous status quo when the job calls for a bold change agent.
