"Financial institutions that continue investing in companies building nuclear weapons face regulatory risks as more countries join the treaty. They also face an increased reputational risk."
"We are well on our way to winning the first unionized Starbucks store in the U.S.," said Workers United, an affiliate of the SEIU.
Gates' obsession with 'innovation' might have blinded him from addressing other issues that Israel is also 'known for'—namely, being the world's leading human rights violator, whose horrific track record of racial apartheid and violence is known to every member of the United Nations.
"We want generations after us to never know the destruction war has wrought on people and the Earth."
"There's no way we're going to" reduce greenhouse gas pollution "if we don't measure it and if we don't commit to it," said the New York Democrat, in a rebuke of the omission of military emissions from national climate targets.
How a perfectly decent phrase is used and abused at COP26.
In many of the areas seeing the sharpest price increases, the inflation is clearly due to factors associated with the pandemic and the reopening of the economy which are not likely to persist long into the future.
On all of the defining issues of the moment, US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has shown that his instincts are out of step with what the country needs. In deciding whom to appoint to the position next, US President Joe Biden must not be swayed by clichés about bipartisanship and continuity.
"As much as these companies might want to massage the facts, the numbers are crystal clear—they are still supplying the majority of their doses to richer parts of the world."
The erasure of Armistice Day tragically matched our country’s history of militarism and aggression.
The scientists warned that some climate impacts "are irreversible for generations to come."
The USDA's new pilot program "continues to put industry profits over protecting the safety of our food supply," said one attorney.
"A few thousand people at Europe's Polish border, many of whom have fled some of the worst crises in the world, is a drop in the ocean compared to the number of people displaced to countries that are much poorer elsewhere," said one refugee rights advocate.
"Costa Rica and Denmark and those that have joined them in the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance are changing the game."
I think of the current Critical Race Theory controversy more as a Ziploc bag: a quick, easy place to stuff American history and get it out of the way, so we don't have to think about—and therefore atone for—the criminal harm caused by four centuries of structural racism.
Polls say Americans should love the Build Back Better Act—but most are only hearing talking points about its price tag.
"More than ten million people have died from the pandemic so far. Humanity cannot afford the U.S. government's passivity. It is past time to share NIH-Moderna with the world."
"No student should be forced to make the choice of forfeiting their education or risking their health, and now they won't have to."
"If this reset is going to turn into a genuine breakthrough that builds confidence around the world, then they need to step up their level of ambition and their commitment to implementation."
"Though we can never undo what has occurred, this settlement makes clear that those who egregiously violate the law and harm their communities will be held accountable."
Other prominent Democrats also oppose further arming the country, arguing that "the only way to truly protect people in the region is to bring the war in Yemen to an end."
