by Julia Conley, staff writer
"If you paid up to $10,000 for membership and have a history of donating to Richard Burr, you would have received significant insight about COVID-19 by Feb 27."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate advocacy groups responded with swift condemnation Thursday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he will recommend that President Donald Trump ask Congress for as much as $20 billion to purchase oil in what Barron's reported "would essentially equate to a bailout of the U.S. oil industry, because several U.S. producers would likely go out of business if demand and prices stay low."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"$2,000 checks every month to every household during the emergency, means test it by raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires," said David Sirota of the Sanders campaign.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Aggressively, purposefully, maniacally, loathsomely racist."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As it was reported Thursday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States rose by over 40% in just 24 hours, frontline medical workers across the country expressed alarm about "severe shortages" of testing and protection equipment.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Progressives and economists are demanding major government action to stimulate economy.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If one of these Republicans (or two!) is your senator, call their office right now and tell them you saw their vote and you won't forget."

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I wonder how many 'freedom payments' this senator has gotten for his campaign from the corporations they are about to bail out?"

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This policy is unconscionable and flagrantly against international law. It is imperative that the U.S. lift these immoral and illegal sanctions."

by Julia Conley, staff writer
Demands for nationwide protections for grocery store workers grew Thursday after Minnesota and Vermont officially designated such employees as emergency workers as the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the country.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Brazil can't take it anymore," declares a petition demanding Bolsonaro's impeachment.

by Chuck Idelson
"As nurses, we know that kindness and humanitarian compassion are at the core of healing, they are also at the heart of public health and safety."

by Eileen Appelbaum, Dean Baker
The president appears not to know what he's doing.

by Louis Fantasia
Creative people will not only survive, they will create.

by Jonathan Cook
Coronavirus will bring into focus the depraved inefficiency of this system—the model of profit-driven health care, of market forces that look out for the short-term interests of business, not the long-term interests of us all.

by Heidi Shierholz
Large fiscal stimulus is needed.

by Hazel Henderson, Fritjof Capra
What will we say at that point, after we have finally learned what we so desperately needed to know?