On this 20th anniversary of 9/11, the rich keep getting richer, always calculating how to squeeze more cash from calamity.
New York has not been the same since the events of September 11, 2001. Twenty years after that dreadful day, the echoes of the tragedy persist.
It's time to defund hate and build a humane immigration system.
The only way to combat terrorism is to end these wars for vengeance and profit.
Assembly Bill 701 would bar companies from using quotas that impede workers' health and safety.
Republican governors vowing to sue over new vaccine rules are being "cavalier" about their constituents' health, said the president. "This isn't a game."
Because as much as American history is about triumphing over hardship, too often it's also been about finding a minority—of religion, of race, of sexuality, of immigration status—to blame for that hardship.
"The bottom line is this: We have the scientific tools we need to turn the corner on this pandemic."
Addressing those who call such policies attacks on personal freedom, one doctor said that "people also have a right to be able to go to work and not get infected and not get sick and not die."
If the Democrats are not able to pass both a substantial Democratic "infrastructure" bill and a very substantial voting rights bill, it is quite likely that the entire country will soon be Texas.
"We must learn from the horrifying consequences of U.S. war and begin down a path towards peace."
"Deep seabed mining is an avoidable environmental disaster," said one expert on global ocean policy.
"When the U.S. chooses war over aid, Big Tech profits."
American political and military leaders exploited 9/11 to advance their own agendas, plowing more and more of our hard-earned tax dollars into the pockets of military contractors while curtailing civil liberties both at home and abroad.
This policy of consistently burying the facts about the impact of the war on Afghanistan must make the pundits at Fox proud. But journalists who care about the principles of the profession should be embarrassed.
The 9/11 attacks were a surprise. The response wasn’t.
"I wondered if I would live to see one of America's most iconic weather records fall—the record for hottest summer, set in the great Dust Bowl of 1936," said one meteorologist. "Finally, in 2021, the record has fallen."
The court's decision, said a coalition of civil rights groups, "serves as a powerful reminder that such unjust and unconstitutional efforts cannot stand."
"This is a nationwide crisis that requires a nationwide solution, and Congress must also do its part... This is a fight we cannot and must not lose."
"This is what they told us for a decade they couldn't do, and today, the students, faculty, and alumni have been vindicated."
"Today we celebrate. Tomorrow, we get back to the hard work of seeing this through."
"If President Biden believes this is an actual 'code red' situation, he should treat it as such by declaring a climate emergency immediately through an executive order and stopping all fossil fuel projects."
Legal battle heats up as India Walton fights Mayor Byron Brown and corporate allies who created a new political party after missing the filing deadline for the general election.
"Thank you, President Biden and the Department of Justice, for joining this fight with us to protect Texans from this dangerous, unjust, and unconstitutional law."
