by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Just a day after the U.S. Labor Department announced that more than 30 million people have applied for unemployment benefits since mid-March, over 30 House Democrats came together to introduce legislation that would guarantee healthcare coverage to all Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
Telling the Canadian public that they "deserve more than thoughts and prayers" less than two weeks after a series of shootings in Canada that killed 13 people, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced a ban on "assault-style" semi-automatic weapons in the country.  

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"To start with these words is a 100% guarantee that you WILL be lied to on an EPIC scale."

by Julia Conley, staff writer
A home health aide who earns just under $13 per hour is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose department has continued collecting garnished wages from hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers during the coronavirus pandemic.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"People aren't striking because they don't feel like paying rent. They're striking because they can't pay rent."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the U.S. death toll from Covid-19 stood above 63,000 people Friday—with over a million confirmed cases nationwide—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a bill in the U.S. House that would enable a federal relief agency to provide disaster assistance during pandemics.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Trump is using a tactic of authoritarians who pretend that they have no influence over the actions of private militias or thug squads. This is failed state stuff right here."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He spoke for the first time about the allegations by Tara Reade, and issued yet another blanket denial of the assault, without any reflections on how women, and survivors of all genders, are treated in our society."

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The current crisis has elevated workplace whistleblowing and collective action to a matter of national health."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The European response guarantees that most full-time employees will see only limited drops in their income."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a move celebrated by advocacy groups across the globe as "a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who make .org their home online," a body that oversees web addresses on Thursday blocked a takeover of the top-level domain by the private equity firm Ethos Capital.

by Vandana Shiva
All three pandemics have their roots in an economic model based on profits, greed and extractivism, which has accelerated ecological destruction, aggravated loss of livelihoods, increased economic inequality, and polarised and divided society into the 1% and 99%.

by Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger
The 15 most rural states would face heavy blows to jobs, revenue, mail and package deliveries, and voting rights.

by Danny Sjursen
In this pandemic-era, it has become increasingly clear that we are only as healthy as the least insured—hence the poorest—in our society.

by Peter Dreier
Is it finally time for "Solidarity Forever" to be sung in unison across the United States?

by David Armiak , Alex Kotch
ALEC is attempting to use the national crisis to leverage movement on its pro-corporate policy agenda.

by Karen Gullo
The sale threatened to bring censorship and increased operating costs to the nonprofit world.