Police officer charged with assault after using pepper spray on video
“I commend Acting Prosecutor Mayer for acting swiftly to hold this police officer accountable for the appalling and completely unjustified use of force alleged in these criminal charges.”
‘It should be easier to raise minimum wage than to drop bombs on Syria’:...
"We need to work to extricate from the Middle East, not escalate."
Trump attorney sues Greenpeace over Dakota Access in $300 million racketeering case
“They are apparently trying to market themselves as corporate mercenaries willing to abuse the legal system to silence legitimate advocacy work.”
Veterans groups condemn Trump as ‘a national disgrace’ over reports he called fallen soldiers...
Trump denied the comments attributed to him in The Atlantic, writing—falsely—that he never called late Republican Sen. John McCain a "loser."
Bernie urges McConnell to bring $15 minimum wage bill to Senate floor
“Workers in America have seen 40 years of wage stagnation.”
‘Grotesque’: While 41 million people lost jobs due to COVID-19, US billionaires grew nearly...
"This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society."
Women approaching retirement face financial insecurity over healthcare and drug costs
"Those results underscore the reality of an uneven playing field for women in the American economy and the economic opportunity cost after years as mothers and caregivers and not wage-earners."
The disaster of Andrew Cuomo and New York’s pandemic response
If the failures of this pandemic have taught us anything, it’s that when we finally come out of it we need a new normal.
Trump’s Election-Fraud Big Lie assaults everyone’s voting rights, mandating punitive laws against sedition
If a “loser” can offset his loss with lying bluster, then elections are mere puppet shows – and democracy withers.
Progressives pressure Biden administration to extend student loan moratorium
“Let’s act NOW to protect them, before it’s too late.”