Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The Palestinian father of six was released after refusing all food and drink to protest Israel's administrative detention policy.
Chuck Collins
The combined wealth of U.S. billionaires has grown 34 percent since March 2020.
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The Trump administration—which has denied the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and seized infants from their parents—claims it is acting in the interest of public health and children.
Tara Ritter
Putting the responsibility of mitigation on farmers lets companies off the hook for reducing emissions along the entire supply chain.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
With over 262,000 Americans killed by Covid-19, millions jobless and at risk of soon losing unemployment aid, and families and friends warned against spending Thanksgiving together because of the dangers of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, new polling results revealed Thursday that people with low incomes agree upon a range of policy solutions to poverty and hunger.
Krissy Kasserman, Amanda Claire Starbuck
It's a time of year to reflect not just on what we're grateful for, but how we can make the abundance and blessings go around. Making our food system fairer is part of that.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The creation of this schedule would be a dramatic change in the composition of the civil service and expose it to undue political influence and intimidation," the lawmakers wrote.
Winona LaDuke
It’s Thanksgiving morning everywhere in America. Thanksgiving needs to mean something to Native people, preferably in the form of justice and reparations. Not a “thanks for taking” sort of commemoration. Maybe it’s even time for a reconciliation with Mother Earth.
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Free religious exercise is one of our most treasured and jealously guarded constitutional rights," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent. "But those principles are not at stake today."
Howard Mansfield
At the time the Pilgrims landed, the Wampanoags and their neighbors had been tested by the years they called the Great Dying. An epidemic from 1616 to 1619—which may have been smallpox (there are other theories)—had killed as many as 9 out of 10 coastal Indians.
Robert C. Koehler
We must seize the moment. The vision driving these movements, so long mocked and marginalized, must enter the political mainstream and begin to change the world.
Ben Tippet
U.S. economic recovery efforts will not succeed if the global economy remains weak and serves only a small rich minority.
Joseph Nevins, Suren Moodliar, & Eleni Macrakis
Perhaps more than any other day, Thanksgiving embodies the underlying embrace of endless growth and voracious consumption: normally the year’s biggest travel day, its reliance on massive amounts of fossil fuel makes the holiday a climate changing event.
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Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Leftist politicians, pundits, and people also reacted with indignation after a Daily Beast article claimed progressives are satisfied with Biden's selections so far.
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Men's violence against women is also a pandemic—one that pre-dates the virus and will outlive it."
