A growing movement led by a number of champions in Congress is working tirelessly to have important improvements to SSI included in the upcoming reconciliation package.
Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention.
"Voters deserve better," said one advocacy group.
GOP-appointed judges sided with Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and right-wing lawmakers in the state, who are seeking to secure a quorum to pass legislation attacking voting rights.
"We must take actions that prevent pandemics from starting by stopping the spillover of diseases from animals to humans."
Pennsylvania and other places want to push forward on carbon removal plans, but there's little evidence for their impact.
"I don't think Democrats will flip Ohio if we nominate another establishment insider," she told supporters.
To build a different system—one that values healthy soils, biodiversity, clean water, and human capital over exploitation and profit at all costs—we must invest in the knowledge that supports it.
"The divide between the haves and have-nots will only grow larger if manufacturers and leaders prioritize booster shots over supply to low- and middle-income countries."
"This is a moral imperative for the United States," said James Risen of the Press Freedom Defense Fund.
But George Bush was fighting a war for oil and empire, and victory would pose a huge tactical difficulty: with no enemy to fight he would have to demobilize his forces in the Mideast and bring them home.
"If your dress code can enforce skirt lengths, it can enforce masks."
The U.S. lawmakers warned construction of the Enbridge-owned tar sands pipeline has "grave implications" for nearby ecosystems.
Companies and rich nations are creating a deadly Covid-19 vaccine "protection racket."
"With kids going back to school and cases surging, we need to know when children under 12 will be able to get vaccinated," said Rep. Katie Porter.
"War and conflict never produce peace and stability. Violence and militarism, even when cloaked in the language of humanitarianism, are fundamentally at odds with human flourishing and opportunity."
"Abbott will have access to the best healthcare, the best doctors, the best treatments… The kids who he refuses to protect from Covid in his state's schools? Not so much."
"It is essentially science denial to permit a pipeline of this magnitude during a climate crisis."
