Tag: pandemic
Senate GOP slammed for allowing eviction moratorium to expire, putting millions...
"As a result of the Senate's failure to act, then leaving town, millions of vulnerable renters now stand on the brink of homelessness."
Noam Chomsky: Trump is using pandemic to enrich billionaires as millions...
“They’re just running wild.”
New analysis exposes pandemic profiteers
“Taxing excess profits during a crisis is an old idea whose time has come again.”
Exclusive: White House privately warns 11 cities must take “aggressive” action...
New red flags about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak come after Trump focused on upsides in televised briefing.
A pandemic has infected the Republican Party—it has one name and...
“What we do have is we have perhaps the lowest, but among the lowest, but perhaps the lowest, mortality rate—death rate—anywhere in the world.”
Despite surging need amid pandemic, GOP moves to roll back SNAP...
“SNAP delivered. Like it always does.”
The Pentagon confronts the pandemic
One thing is inescapable: as the disaster aboard the Theodore Roosevelt indicates, the U.S. military must reconsider how it arms and structures its forces and give serious thought to alternative models of organization.
Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and...
If pharmaceutical companies don’t voluntarily help people in poor countries, those governments can do what they’ve done in past health crises: let other companies produce generic versions of patented medicines, to protect the common good.
As COVID-19 cases spike, epidemiologist warns ‘the road to an uncertain...
We speak with Dr. Ali Khan, epidemiologist and the dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, about the Trump administration’s handling of the crisis and his hopes for a vaccine.
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Pentagon press clampdown under Trump sparks first amendment alarm
Journalists and free press advocates warn that new Pentagon restrictions requiring pre-approval of even unclassified information represent a dangerous assault on democratic oversight, despite Trump’s claim that “nothing stops reporters.”
Revealed: ‘Chilling’ surveillance of activists by meat and dairy industry
The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups.
The only way to stop Israel’s genocide: an embargo by a consortium of countries
Embargoes: how to bring peace to Israel, Palestine, and the surrounding Middle East.
Progressive Caucus backs bill to block bombs to Israel
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has endorsed legislation halting offensive U.S. weapons sales to Israel, marking a historic shift as outrage over Gaza’s devastation grows.
House bill would let Marco Rubio strip passports over political speech
Provision would let the Secretary of State deny or revoke passports over alleged “material support” as critics warn of thought policing and unchecked authority.