Tag: Covid-19 pandemic
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.
Democratic legislators introduce COVID Whistleblower Protection Act
The bill seeks to institute stronger legal whistleblower protections for employees who work for entities that receive COVID-19 relief funds
Critics smell ‘economic sabotage’ as McConnell unveils COVID plan with $0...
"As the Covid crisis only grows more deadly, this disgraceful proposal puts the lives of everyday Americans at even greater risk."
‘Housing is healthcare’: Evictions have exacerbated Covid-19 pandemic, research shows
“This is a time where it’s not an overstatement to say that for many people, eviction can lead to death.”
Supreme Court blocks New York’s restrictions on religion amid COVID-19
The Supreme Court's majority ruled that "even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten."
A people’s vaccine? Drugmakers set to profit from COVID vaccines made...
“The investment in these vaccines, as for most drugs, has really been underwritten by the taxpayer, by the government.”
What happens when leaders won’t shut disease-spreading businesses and make mask...
Natural selection at work...
‘It’s even worse on video’: Trump adviser welcomes killing loved ones...
“Eat, drink, and be merry, because tomorrow my policies may kill you.”
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States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.