by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Redundant nuclear weapons, off-books spending accounts, and endless wars in the Middle East don't keep us safe."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Civil rights advocates slammed the president's law enforcement executive order as "a band-aid for a bullet wound."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As Congress continues to debate whether and how to keep helping workers and businesses impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, over three-quarters of House Democrats sent a letter Monday urging the lower chamber's party leaders to ensure the delivery of further relief to the "crucial" clean energy industry, which has been "decimated" by the public health crisis and resulting economic fallout.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After months of warnings that the coronavirus pandemic has turned U.S. detention facilities into "ticking time bombs" and a "nightmare waiting to happen," the New York Times reported Tuesday that deaths related to Covid-19 in prisons across the country have soared by 73% since mid-May.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
Forty-seven United Nations experts on Tuesday called on the international community to condemn Israel's plan to begin the annexation of large parts of the occupied West Bank next month, including a specific rebuke to the United States for its encouragement of the continued violation of Palestinians' human rights.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Anything is better than pretending that the market can deliver healthcare—because it can't," says laureate Angus Deaton.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Private equity firms will now be allowed to access—and skim fees off of—the $9 trillion in 100 million workers' 401(k) plans and IRAs."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is a major step forward."

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We will take it to the courts, to the halls of power, and to the streets."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This dishonesty has caused increased deaths and will cause more. They are effectively killing people for perceived political gain."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"These extremists cannot be allowed to silence peaceful protests or inflict violence."

by Thom Hartmann
Let's be very, very clear: the president is willing to take specific, willful, intentional actions that will lead to the deaths of other people in order to get what he wants, even when they are members of his own family.

by Jesse Jackson
Led by the passion of a young and diverse generation, the country must finally address the systemic inequality that increasingly endangers all of us.

by Alice Slater
Mother Earth is giving us a time out, sending us all to our rooms to reflect on how we address the triple evils about which Dr. King warned us.

by Michael Winship
Trump and Barr are at the forefront, trying to scare the citizenry with tales of anarchy and destruction.

by Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores
So great is the admiration for Cuban doctors that a global campaign has sprung up to award them the Nobel Peace Prize.

by Juan Cole
If 100% of the population would simply wear masks when they go out, evidence shows, the rate of transmission falls below 1 and the number of cases dwindles. Why don't so many people? Because the president has told them not to.