Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Given the enormous economic desperation facing working families in this country today, I will not be able to support the recently announced Manchin-Romney Covid proposal unless it is significantly improved."
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Kassandra Frederique
We will not—and cannot—wait any longer. The drug war is an infestation that continues to grow, and every day we wait is another day tragedy unfolds.
Bonnie Kristian
This is at most a conflict of regional import in which the US role has been to protract hostilities, facilitate unconscionable treatment of innocents, and unintentionally benefit the very terrorists we oppose.
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Julia Conley, staff writer
The Democratic-led U.S. House passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act Friday in what advocates called an "historic moment."
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Carmen Scurato
Trump may have soured on Fox since he lost the election, but it seems his FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, has not.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As U.S. daily deaths set a new record on Wednesday, topping 2,800, the president posted an "unhinged" 46-minute-long rant on Facebook, claiming without any evidence that "this election was rigged."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The relocation of so many Rohingya refugees to a remote island, which is still off limits to everyone including rights groups and journalists without prior permission, poses grave concerns about independent human rights monitoring."
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
A joint congressional resolution would close the 13th Amendment's "slavery loophole," from which the prison-industrial complex and businesses big and small profit.
Sarah Lazare
There is always money for war.
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"If things carry on as they are, the outlook is bleak, unquestionably. But I think it's not too late to introduce measures now."
Jon Queally, staff writer
"It’s so insane, it just makes sense."
Shenaz Kermalli
Public discourse on these state-sponsored acts of terrorism (we wouldn’t hesitate to characterize these acts as terrorism if Iran assassinated an Israeli or U.S scientist, would we?) has historically been largely absent.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Instead of passing a relief bill, Senate Republicans have been confirming judge after judge—filling the federal bench while Americans fill hospitals across the country."
Jim Hightower, Jane Kleeb
For years, the Department of Agriculture has been run by Big Ag acolytes. Biden has a chance to change that.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Ms. Montgomery was the victim of an extreme level of physical and sexual abuse throughout her life against which the state never provided protection and for which it failed to offer remedies."
Ari Paul
If more people reap the benefits of student loan forgiveness, allowing them to enjoy freer lives with more chances for economic advancement, then other progressive and social democratic policies are going to be more appealing.
Sister Helen Prejean
No matter how terrible the crime, God-like decisions of life or death at the hands of government officials are too weighty and unwieldy for humans to handle.
Julia Conley, staff writer
"The real news here is that Denmark will apparently go on extracting fossil fuels for another three decades," said climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Declaring that "we do not need a hawk with relationships with the weapons industry," Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Jody Williams also urged Biden not to pick Michèle Flournoy as defense secretary.
Ben Price
Seen through her guileless eyes, the humble truth of our kinship and solidarity beneath the real—though disproportionately unequal—oppressions of empire, became clear.
