Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"As our country faces the interlocking challenges of a global pandemic, economic downturn, racial injustice, and the climate crisis, we must transition to a brighter future for everyone."
Richard Eskow
Revolutionaries sees the potential in human beings—they see our world's potential to become something vastly better than it is today.
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Medhini Kumar
Climate equity has no borders, and in the Gaza Strip, the primary force mitigating these devastating consequences and protecting and ensuring the wellness of the most vulnerable—Palestine refugees—is UNRWA.
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Alex Lawson
Just because a new president is in the White House doesn't mean these two holdovers have stopped acting as Donald Trump's agents.
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"America, the whole world is watching. Do we really have equality and justice for all?"
John Buell
Biden's recent characterization of Putin applies to this dominant ideology as well.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are and so much reason for hope, but right now I'm scared."
Andrew Bacevich
The siege of ancient Troy, which lasted a decade, inspired Homer to write the Iliad. Although the American war in Afghanistan has now gone on almost twice as long, don’t expect it to be memorialized in an epic poem.
Jenna McGuire, staff writer
"The best we can do is implement a 21st century Marshall Plan and help to rebuild Central America in the same ways that we have destroyed it."
Jon Queally, staff writer
French President Emannuel Macron, said one demonstrator, "is going backwards—he's performing a moonwalk, he's an artist who pretends to go forward but in fact he's only going backwards."
Robert Reich
The "surge" has been fabricated by Republicans in order to stoke fear—and, not incidentally, to justify changes in laws they say are necessary to prevent non-citizens from voting.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Vaccines must be treated as public goods available at affordable prices, available for all," said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The malicious incompetence that resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths starts at the top, with the former President and his enablers."
Servaas Storm
Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse.
Ari Paul
Without the protection of the "actual malice" standard in libel suits, political and business leaders, with their bottomless legal war chests, can simply use the threat of litigation to throw a chilling shroud over journalists and political activists.
Sam Pizzigati
We have today, in effect, a "wealth defense industry," a billionaire-bankrolled juggernaut adept at punching out loopholes to our tax rules and regulations, but the tax cheating that has given our wealthiest an enormous boost need not continue.