Tag: Coronavirus
‘We cannot test. We cannot test’: As coronavirus cases in us...
“Testing is central because that leads to early detection, it minimizes further spread, and it quickly treats those found with the virus.”
What’s missing from the coronavirus bill
Corporate tax cuts won’t save us. The coronavirus doesn’t distinguish between rich and poor.
Coronavirus is a historic trigger event — and it needs a...
Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation.
Senator dumped up to $1.7 million of stock after reassuring public...
Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat.
America doesn’t have a public health system
There is no public health system in the U.S., in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense.
Progressive lawmakers demand nationwide moratorium on ‘cruel and dangerous’ evictions amid...
“Evicting families puts their health at risk, imposes trauma on and disrupts the education of their children, and exacerbates the risk of outbreak in their communities,” said Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and other lawmakers.
Trump holds White House presser to announce much stricter separation guidance...
Hard to take him seriously when he and his team stand shoulder to shoulder and the press crowds in.
What the coronavirus says about us
Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.
No, President Trump, the coronavirus is nothing like H1N1 swine flu...
The president has been comparing his administration’s handling of COVID-19 to the way President Barack Obama’s team dealt with the H1N1 outbreak. He is wrong.
States halt new water shutoffs, leaves previously disconnected households without water...
Our country needs a national ban on water shutoffs for nonpayment with immediate restoration of service to all families who have lost water for an inability to pay their water bills."
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Minnesota sues Trump administration after federal agents withhold evidence in fatal immigration raid shootings
State officials say federal authorities blocked access to key evidence following deaths tied to Operation Metro Surge.
How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.
What I saw in Cuba was resilience
It was a country enduring a 66-year siege, and a people who, against all odds, continue to build, create, and care for one another.
The most dangerous country
From 2003 to 2026 and beyond.
From pollution to performance wear: Fair-trade clothes made from 100% ocean plastic
“My motto is: there’s already so much plastic out there, why are we making more? There’s so much we can be pulling from. It’s already a resource; we just have to get it.”