Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"It is time to end the carceral approach to immigration... Instead, we urge the Biden administration to pursue humane and just immigration policies that aim to end mass incarceration, criminalization, and deportation of immigrants."
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Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Chile will be the grave of neoliberalism!"
Yanis Varoufakis
"Even if everyone agreed that printing another trillion dollars to finance a basic income for the poor would boost neither inflation nor interest rates, the rich and powerful would still oppose it. After all, their most important interest is not to conserve economic potential, but to preserve the power of the few to compel the many."
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Already strained by 14 years of economic blockade, Gaza's medical infrastructure is reeling amid an inlflux of wounded patients and the killing of two top doctors in an Israeli airstrike that killed 33 people over the weekend.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The cruelty is the point. Abolish the death penalty," said Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
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Ronnie Kasrils
"It is imperative that we of the international community redouble our efforts to aid the Palestinian people in solidarity actions," writes former South African minister and anti-apartheid veteran Ronnie Kasrils.
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Julia Conley, staff writer
"Now is not the time to relax protective measures, and we are outraged that the CDC has done just that while we are still in the midst of the deadliest pandemic in a century," said National Nurses United.
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Laura Packard
"The American Families Plan will make (Affordable Care Act) subsidies permanent—ensuring that millions of Americans can keep their care. And the top 1% of taxpayers will pay for it."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Alarm bells are ringing loudly about the threat to reproductive rights. The Supreme Court just agreed to review an abortion ban that unquestionably violates nearly 50 years of Supreme Court precedent and is a test case to overturn Roe v. Wade," says the head of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Endorsing former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner for Congress, the Sunrise Movement says "she understands what our communities are going through and is not afraid to stand up and work against the tide when it comes to helping her people."
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Richard Eskow
"Let's be clear," writes Richard Eskow. For Israel, recent statements from the Biden administration "are a license to kill."
Patrick Gathara
"Rather than seeking "moral clarity", the West is using moral obfuscation to justify attacks on a refugee population by a colonial power that has evicted them from their land, blockades them in what is, in essence, an open-air prison, and then claims the right to do so in peace and quiet."
Todd Miller
"What I did know was that there were no border patrols trying to stop the mining companies, the military-security assistance crews, the economic dispossessors, or the greenhouse gas emitters. The border patrols were reserved for the displaced, not those responsible for their displacement."
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Tax the Rich. Save America. Yes, it's really that simple."
Phyllis Bennis
"It’s easy to say no one benefits. But it’s not true."
