Hope on the cliff’s edge in Brazil
The country’s president has reacted to the ongoing tragedy not with compassion but with exaggerated toughness.
Sanders, Harris, Markey introduce bill to provide monthly $2,000 payments during the COVID-19 crisis
As rent comes due and bills continue to pile up, Americans desperately need assistance to financially survive this crisis.
GOP pushes for even larger Pentagon budget amid ‘unconscionable’ profiteering
"Free advice for the speaker of the House: if you want to cut spending so bad, start and end with the Pentagon budget," said one watchdog group.
Becoming stable geniuses
Seeking new and very old habits for a New Year.
France to ban all new development of shale oil and gas
The days of unfettered fossil fuel extraction are over.
Congress’s romance with cowardice
War without war powers (the not-so-new American way)
Our celebrity president and his media accomplice
Celebrities need an accomplice and Trump understood, after all those years of collaborating with the media, that they would fulfill that role for him with wall-to-wall coverage.
President’s “health reform vision”: $1 trillion in cuts, no plan to protect people with...
Despite the lack of detail, the budget sheds light on what the President’s vision for health care entails, including significant cuts and an empty promise to protect people with pre-existing conditions.
Law and disorder: Why corporatism will dominate US policy for decades to come
As long as this power remains in the hands of extremist ideologues, democracy and the rule of law are threatened, and corporations and monied interests will continue to get a free pass.
‘Our house is on fire:’ Activists urge G7 to immediately address climate, vaccine apartheid...
“What we’ve seen is simply rich countries doing too little too late and not taking up their responsibility, and unfortunately this G7 has not changed that at all.”