Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday applauded the Biden administration's decision to support temporarily waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines.
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Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"A nuclear bailout is wrong for taxpayers, wrong for ratepayers, and wrong for the climate," said Lukas Ross, program manager at Friends of the Earth.
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Julia Conley, staff writer
Without Trump's independent contractor rule in place, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "more workers can fight for the pay they deserve."
David Armiak
"RAGA, RLDF, its members, and donors will be forever tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection, especially now that they have apparently doubled down on fanning the flames of Trump’s Big Lie."
John Feffer
"Immigrants didn’t just build America. They are essential to the health and prosperity of the country today."
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Sonja Scherndl, Adam Parsons
"Imagine what could be achieved if just a portion of the money spent on military expenditures were pooled into a global fund, and redirected towards ending hunger and massively investing in public health systems."
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"A government unable to produce results that significant majorities of the public elect their representatives to deliver is no longer a representative government," hundreds of academics wrote in a call for filibuster reform.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Once you put enough heat into the climate system, you are going to lose those ice shelves, and once that is set in motion you can't reverse it."
Robert Reich
"Biden's plans might be the antidote to Trumpism—creating enough decent-paying working class jobs, along with benefits such as childcare and free community college, as to forestall some of the right-wing dyspepsia that Trump whipped into a fury."
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Housing rights advocates urged the Biden administration to appeal the ruling and "continue to vigorously defend and enforce the moratorium."
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