"It's always helpful to remember that big fossil fuel companies (besides being overwhelmingly responsible for carbon pollution) are also skeevy disinformation hucksters."
A collective statement locates Trumpism and the Republican Party as twin dangers to U.S. democracy, and it calls for serious voting rights legislation and a broader effort to defeat these twin dangers.
One peace advocate urged all sides to reconvene negotiations "as soon as possible and with renewed urgency" to avert "disastrous" consequences for Iran and the world.
It's gut-check time, quite literally. And the Build Back Better Bill is gutted, House Democrats should vote down the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and hold out for a program that meets the needs of most voters.
"Moving the infrastructure bill forward without the popular Build Back Better Act risks leaving behind working people, families, and our communities."
The Build Back Better program isn't just inadequate on climate—it may be a disaster. Here's what movements are demanding next.
"Virtually no one responsible for alleged U.S. war crimes committed in the course of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars has been held accountable... and yet a publisher who exposed such crimes is potentially facing a lifetime in jail."
"For too long, families have been denied basic supports... while billionaires evade taxes on obscene amounts of wealth. This dynamic is economically dangerous and morally unsustainable."
New research reveals how six fossil fuel giants captured European climate politics.
The US government's efforts to extradite the Wikileaks founder pose a grave threat to press freedom both in the US and abroad.
Working people in poorly-run, wildly-infected Red states are singing along with Johnny Paycheck.
"Giant corporations have been exploiting tax loopholes for too long, and it's about time they pay their fair share to help run this country, just like everyone else," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
The challenge ahead is to turn every city and every town in virtually every major country in the world into a stronghold of the global climate movement.
It is well past time for the Post opinion section to stop offering a platform to the new climate denialism.
"It is evident that the president of the republic is the main culprit for most of the more than 600,000 deaths."
"What if it was your family starving to death?"
"The fossil fuel lobby's grimy fingerprints are all over yet another congressional deadlock on meaningful climate action," warned one campaigner.
Wishful thinking aside, the threat of nuclear war has not receded.
The live address comes as the Senate Budget Committee chair continues to push for including Medicare expansion and drug pricing reforms in the Build Back Better package.
"We need to have a vote ready for the Build Back Better plan, not a framework," insisted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "We want to have both of these votes together."
One striker participated because "McDonald's still refuses to take responsibility for the countless women and teenagers who face harassment on the job at its stores across the globe."
