Tag: Biden
A leaking oil refinery on St. Croix gives Biden his first...
Nearly 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for the closure of a controversial oil and gas facility that has sickened residents of the U.S. Virgin Island.
How upskilling America will rebuild the middle class
Providing workers with a pathway for that upskilling will be essential to meeting the nation’s infrastructure needs.
Biden promised to end standardized testing in schools—it was never going...
In education policymaking in Washington, D.C., the “bean counters” are still in charge.
How Biden’s agenda is shaped by the corporate class
A national government that represents corporations and routinely lies to its voters needs Silicon Valley and the corporate press to maintain a stranglehold over the dissemination of information.
The American Rescue Plan is for real
“People are hurting enough already. They don’t need more worries about the future.”
Pandemic may have left over 250 million people with acute food...
As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries.
Why U.S. labor laws need a major update—the PRO Act is...
The PRO Act will help to level the playing field and arrest the decades-long erosion of labor rights that significantly accelerated under the previous, anti-worker presidential administration.
Restoring our water systems should be top priority for Biden administration
Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the “nice-to-have” column of environmental progress.
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Unfettered and unaccountable: How Trump is building a violent, shadowy federal police force
And even when its investigations didn’t fix problems, the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties provided an accounting of allegations and a measure of transparency for Congress and the public.
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
The quandary of contraries in human nature – half problem-solving genius, half destroyer of...
If we do not find common ground, then the ground of being on which we depend will dissolve.
The lab mouse paradox: Why science still depends on animals who don’t represent us
Despite significant advances in human-based research, millions of mice and rats are still used in U.S. laboratories each year—at immense ethical and scientific cost.
Showered with lies
Kennedy, Trump, and a “reckless disregard for science and the truth”