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U.S. Coast Guard crews work to put out a fire during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Ten years after the nation's worst oil disaster, the impacts remain, but the Trump adminstration moves to expand dangerous drilling.

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I'm not here for a $5 bill. And I will not insult my community with one."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Despite President Donald Trump's efforts to prop up oil prices in recent weeks, economists were stunned Monday to see the price of U.S. crude oil collapse to below zero for the first time on record—falling to negative-$37 and forcing oil producers to pay buyers to take the product off their hands. 



by Julia Conley, staff writer
While human rights groups and a number of U.S. allies have expressed support for the U.N.'s call for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. and Russia are reportedly standing in the way of an international agreement.

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Staff and volunteers with Project C.U.R.E hold a drive outside the United Center to collect donations of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on March 29, 2020 in Chicago.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The federal covid response has entered a new phase of political sadism."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our job now is to join the rest of the industrialized world and pass the Paycheck Security Act."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When they're telling us not to contribute to what they're seeing in the hospital every day, listen."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The House Speaker's selection of Rep. Donna Shalala for the oversight role "makes a mockery" of the congressional committee, said one critic.


Betty Bailey of SEIU Local 1 protests with Whole Foods Market employees and other union activists outside a Whole Foods Market store on July 31, 2013 in Chicago.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The company, which is owned by Amazon, uses factors like race, turnover, and "loyalty" to determine each store's score.


A closed sign is displayed in the window of a business in a nearly deserted lower Manhattan on April 17, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that a deal with congressional leadership to provide more relief to small businesses impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic could be finalized as early as the end of the day, some progressives highlighted what's been left out of the emerging aid package and urged Democratic lawmakers to keep fighting to expand it.


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the opinion section of the New York Times on Sunday to make the case that in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and an economic meltdown, "it's imperative that we re-examine some of the foundations of American society, understand why they are failing us, and fight for a fairer and more just nation."

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Nurses and doctors rallying for Medicare for All in Chicago over the weekend outside the annual gathering of the American Medical Association which currently opposes the plan to make healthcare coverage in the United States available to all. (Photo: National Nurses United/flickr/cc)

by Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care
Big problems demand big solutions: Congress Must Expand Medicare Coverage to Everyone in America for the Duration of the Crisis.


For him, governing is nothing but a performance. (Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

by Rebecca Gordon
(Un)Reality TV, 2020-Style.


I wish one of the extremely rich, white men physically close to Trump at his daily pep rally would turn to him on camera and say “No. You’re a president, not a king, you’re a crook and a phony and a moron, too mean and stupid to be allowed to destroy the nation we love.”

by Heather Mallick
Titles are very important to Americans. So is paperwork.


To many around the world, we appear dangerously disoriented, eager to spend mind-boggling amounts of money to fight distant and half-imagined military threat, but not so interested in saving lives here and now. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Stephen Kinzer
We can’t make the masks we need, but we pour billions into an unnecessary military build-up.


Fauci has become a familiar figure standing beside Donald Trump at media briefings, never openly contradicting him but subtly trying to steer him away from his worst ideas. (Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images)

by Gwynne Dyer
If Fauci hangs in there and stresses the inevitability of a second wave of deaths closer to election time if the lockdowns end prematurely, he might just manage to steer Trump away from this cliff.


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by Harvey Wasserman
Neither the human race, nor American democracy, nor the US economy will survive more of this. Our further existence as a species depends on you.

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