by Ken Butigan
The stark choice for a nonviolent future is here.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In this time of crisis, my office will not add undue stress or saddle New Yorkers with unnecessary financial burden."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The mayor's comments come as Gov. Cuomo says peak of infectious outbreak could still be 45 days away.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
" Good," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Now we must suspend student loan payments."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is not getting enough attention."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The healthcare industry will fight any threat to its profits with force and gobs of cash, even in the midst of a global pandemic. They cannot be bargained with. And they must be defeated."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a new video from The Intercept, author and activist Naomi Klein explains how the Trump administration and other governments across the globe are "exploiting" the new coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic "to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks," and how working people worldwide are resisting such efforts and demanding real support from political leaders during this crisis.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Only now is the White House coming out of denial and heading straight into saying it could not have been foreseen."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"There is no *good* coronavirus plan unless it includes compensation for these 18% of workers. Full stop."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise in Iran, one of the world's most impacted countries, global pressure is mounting on the Trump administration to ease economic sanctions that Iranian officials and other critics charge has hampered the government's ability to manage the public health crisis.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
The union representing flight attendants called on Congress to ensure airline workers—not executives and shareholder profits—are at the center of the effort to shore up the industry.

by Robert Reich
There is no public health system in the US, in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense.

by Mike Pappas
The virus is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health.

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
The most serious consequences of the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq confirm what millions of people around the world warned about 17 years ago.

by Julie Hollar
The pundits appear willfully ignorant of their own role in shaping electability narratives.

by Josh Bivens
Policy is needed now to curb further losses.

by Kevin Martin
Let's get all US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, make peace with Iran, and address the real threats to human security like pandemics and the climate crisis.