by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Since day one, this president has thought he's above the law, above criticism, and can get away with anything—including a fake 'emergency' to sell bombs to Saudi Arabia," says Sen. Bernie Sanders.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
While giving fossil fuel companies access to relief funds ostensibly meant for small businesses struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration on Monday slapped solar and wind power firms with retroactive rent bills dating back two years.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As workers, employers, and elected officials continued to grapple with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns nationwide, the ACLU on Monday released a set of principles to help guide federal, state, and local policies governing the use of digital contact tracing technologies that could help curb the spread of Covid-19 but have generated serious privacy concerns.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This should be political suicide. Let's make sure it is."

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"We'll need just this kind of climate ambition to make way for a livable planet in the next four years."

by Julia Conley, staff writer
A new study published Monday showed a strong correlation between last month's in-person primary election in Wisconsin and increase in coronavirus infections in the state, prompting new calls for a national vote-by-mail system.  

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Collecting this information is as close to reading minds as surveillance can get. It is digital mining of the personal lives of Americans."

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"The reality of reopening school buildings and college campuses is that any missteps could cost lives... Once again, this administration has politics trumping science."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"There is no form of corruption too small for this administration. Leave nothing behind. They'll take the doorknobs too if they can figure out how to unscrew them."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"How can federal employees feel safe to speak up when the president wants to take away their legal protections?"

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a protest Monday to call for more ambitious action from the U.K. government to tackle the climate crisis, activists with the group Extinction Rebellion lined up over 2,000 pairs of children's shoes in London's Trafalgar Square and unfurled a banner that read "Covid Today > Climate Tomorrow > Act Now."

by Esha Bhandari, ReNika Moore
A system of immunity passports in the United States threatens to exacerbate racial disparities and harm the civil liberties of all.

by Karen Greenberg
Over there is now over here: America’s pandemic role reversal.

by Basav Sen
Only a recovery based on principles such as those of the people’s bailout would be able to create a more just society out of the ashes of the coronavirus crisis.

by Pierre Tristam
As heartening and important as these food drops are, they’re a supplement, not a replacement for what government can and must do.

by Ellen Brown
Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities.

by Kumar Venkat, Susan Cholette
As we come out of this pandemic with an altered business landscape and more awareness of our personal consumption patterns, we have a rare opportunity to make sure that the planet’s climate doesn’t become an even bigger crisis than the one we are battling now.