How Americans can help the frontline workers battling Covid-19
The pandemic highlighted the essential work that nursing home staff members perform—and the necessity of treating them as essential workers from now on.
Biden should give thanks to First Peoples for giving him the White House
This Thanksgiving, Biden supporters can give thanks to Indigenous Peoples. But please don’t blame them if Biden turns out to be a turkey.
Trumped up tantrums boomerang, fully affirming election legitimacy plus dividing the right
How do even smarter politicians than Trump defend themselves against being slammed as anti-democratic, majority-hating Betrayers of Legitimate Elections?
Fired police officer charged with killing unarmed man on video
“Bayview residents deserve to know that law enforcement officers who inflict violence and harm in the community will be held accountable."
CO2 levels hit record high despite pandemic lockdowns
Scientists calculate that emissions must fall by half by 2030 to give a good chance of limiting global heating.
The great clanging, self-inflicted, farcical Trump implosion
I conclude Trump took himself out of the race because he was and is in self-destruction mode.
Former supervisory corrections officer sentenced to prison for tasing restrained teen
"Our citizens have a fundamental and constitutional right to ethical treatment by employees of federal, state, and local government."
Hey Joe, where you going with that Pentagon in your hands?
If past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, there are ample reasons for apprehension about the top of the military and foreign-policy team that Biden has begun to install for his presidency.
Fossil fuel industry received $110 billion in direct and indirect COVID-19 relief
Since March 26, the United States government "provided between $10.4 billion and $15.2 billion in direct benefits to coal, oil and gas companies" and nearly $95 billion in indirect benefits.
Changes to National Environmental Policy Act increases logging in national forests
The new rule will "authorize logging and other activities without following NEPA’s public notification and environmental review requirements."