Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Sometimes a project is so bad, so indefensible, that the politics fall to the wayside and we get the right decision."
Renée Graham
The president-elect often speaks of this nation’s 'better angels.' The former Chicago mayor isn’t one of them.
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"It is not out of the power of the district court, if someone could raise the matter, to order ICE to return the children that it removed on that flight," said one legal expert.
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Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"During the pandemic that has taken everything from millions, U.S. billionaires have now collectively gained over $1 trillion."
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Over 2,000 Americans died yesterday and 266,000 are dead and the gangsters in this regime are focused on bringing back the electric chair and making it easier to spew poison in the air. The Republican Party is unfit to govern."
Tom Weis
Come on, man. For someone who talks so much about the need to be guided by science, why isn't Joe Biden’s climate thinking guided by the scientific consensus.
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"I've been followed for hundreds of miles along the line by different trucks," said one Indigenous organizer. "I don't know if that's counterinsurgency, but it's certainly surveillance."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Progressives are calling on the president-elect to reject a "Corporate Cabinet" and instead pick "people dedicated to working in service of the general welfare."
Mike Lofgren
His lies and incompetence created epic disasters that may yet sink America.
Sarah Lazare
Biden’s incoming team helped shape some of the most militaristic policies of the Obama administration.
Julia Conley, staff writer
"The U.S. government has the capacity and the authority under existing law to treat Covid-19 vaccines as global public goods."
Kathy Kelly
People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault.
Heidi Shierholz
Unemployment claims rise for second week in a row.
Nancy J. Altman, Linda Benesch
Our Social Security system is government at its best. Without it, the consequences of COVID and the resulting economic fallout would be far worse.
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Economist Mike Konczal describes student loan debt as "an albatross around the neck of an entire generation."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Ernest Moniz's 'all of the above' energy policies might be good for his friends in the coal, oil and gas industries, but they're a death sentence for us and our planet."
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Vermont senator said Democrats in Congress and the incoming Biden administration "must have the courage to take on the powerful special interests who have been at war with the working class of this country for decades."
