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"The federal government should be stepping in to supplement food distribution networks to get our abundant frozen meat supplies to stores and food banks that need them."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We only wish that this administration cared as much about the lives of working people as it does about meat, pork, and poultry products."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If $600 a week is a big raise, that's because workers were undervalued."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Trump deflecting blame for his handling of the pandemic onto the WHO and making Yemenis pay for it in the end."


German Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze participates in the Petersberg Climate Dialogue XI.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the year's first major meeting of climate ministers—held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic—wrapped up Tuesday, climate campaigners welcomed world leaders' calls for a "green recovery" from the ongoing public health crisis but demanded that the lofty rhetoric be matched by ambitious, detailed plans and actions.

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The new film from Michael Moore is coming under fire from climate activists.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Throughout, the filmmakers twist basic facts, misleading the public about who is responsible for the climate crisis."


A resident of the Casa Nepal safe house stands in the upstairs common area on May 8, 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The shelter houses approximately 60 women and their children annually.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Lockdowns around the world triggered by the coronavirus pandemic could contribute to millions more cases of gender-based violence, child marriages, female genital mutilation, and unintended pregnancies resulting from lack of access to contraceptives in the months ahead, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.


Then-Vice President Joe Biden listens to former President Barack Obama during a meeting in the Situation Room of the White House, Feb. 2, 2015. (Photo: Obama White House Flickr)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Republicans already basically dismiss sexual assault allegations against their co-partisans out of hand; if Democrats do the same for the leader of their party it will do a great deal to move us back to the pre-#MeToo past."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is one of the most appalling things I've heard in the context of this crisis."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It was made complicated so people would get discouraged and give up."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined forces on Tuesday to propose a bill that would ban mergers and acquisitions while the U.S. is facing the coronavirus pandemic.  



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's totally in our control to fix this. We should be spending $100 billion on the testing. We should just get it going. It's just not that hard."

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For the duration of this crisis, under the act, Medicare will cover all medically necessary health care, including prescription drugs, for the uninsured, whether those who have recently lost their jobs or those who have been long without insurance. (Photo: Sally Prevost/flickr/cc)

by Bernie Sanders
Empowering Medicare to cover our health needs is comprehensive and cost-effective.


Prisoners increasingly are protesting their conditions, objecting to being sentenced to die in prison. (Photo: http://organizingcatholicsforjustice.org)

by Jesse Jackson
Inmates awaiting trial, the elderly, and those who have served much of their sentence should get early release before deaths start to soar. Use the extra space to provide more social distancing,


To me the most misplaced invective is the treatment given to Bill McKibben. He comes across in the film as dishonest and corrupt. And yet he has done more for the climate justice movement than almost anyone else in the world. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Cynthia Kaufman
Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs's new film is so full of weak analysis, misinformation, and misplaced invective that I worry it will cause more harm than good.


My mind turns to the Great Depression, too, but to a source that is often overlooked—to older black women who grew up during that time in the rural South. (Photo: Bettmann / Contributor)

by Katherine Van Wormer
It is taking the scale of a horrific pandemic to expose flaws in the social structure that should have been corrected earlier.


It does appear that the present still-raging pandemic is forcing dramatic shifts in the way we consume energy and that many of these changes are likely to persist in some fashion long after the virus has been tamed. (Photo: Brian Katt, Wikimedia Commons)

by Michael T. Klare
Energy in a post-pandemic world.


By Election Day, we may have suffered more than 100,000 U.S. dead, twice the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War. It will be extremely difficult for Trump to spin away the horrific human cost. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Les Leopold
Total deaths and job loss.

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