by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The Trump-appointee's comments came as the president's reelection campaign filed yet another lawsuit challenging the election outcome.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
A collection of letters from American children to Santa Claus, sent through the U.S. Postal Service's Operation Santa program and posted on social media Tuesday, revealed the despair millions of children are facing amid the coronavirus pandemic, months after any federal aid has been offered to the public.

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"All on his own," Warren said during a hearing with Fed chairman Jerome Powell, the incoming president "will have the ability to administratively cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"These findings shock the conscience."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"There may not be bipartisan support for an additional check" among Republican and Democratic lawmakers, said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, "but there is support outside of Congress."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Millionaire tax dodgers like Donald Trump get away with paying little to no federal income tax in part because IRS funding has dropped over 20% since 2010."

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Instead of acting to prevent the increase in deforestation, the Bolsonaro government has been denying the reality of the situation, dismantling environmental agencies, and attacking NGOs."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Small donors who give to Trump thinking they are financing an 'official election defense fund' are in fact helping pay down the Trump campaign's debt or funding his post-presidential political operation."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"McConnell and the Senate GOP still haven't reinstated the $600 unemployment checks, extended unemployment programs, passed rental assistance, or anything else in months to help struggling families during this crisis."

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Atlas brought no expertise in infectious diseases but plenty of misinformation to the position.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
"We don't train our attention on these neighborhoods but many of them are already suffering significantly from these problems."

by Richard Eskow, Sean McElwee
An appointment for the notoriously abrasive former mayor of Chicago should be of even more concern to the new administration and the Democratic Party than it is to the left.

by Jackie Smith, Joshua Cooper
We have seen over the past four years that the U.S. political system is unable to hold leaders accountable even to its own Constitution, and we’re watching as the system’s legitimacy crumbles, along with protections for basic rights and the most vulnerable.

by Robert Reich
If the underlying trends don’t change, after Biden we could have Trumps as far as the eye can see. And health and environmental crises that make the coronavirus another step toward Armageddon.

by Linda McQuaig
Unfortunately, we’ve ventured a long way from the days when we had a publicly owned and medically innovative enterprise that dazzled on the world stage and kept Canadians at the front of the line for vaccines.

by Jesse Jackson
The two U.S. Senate races there are a microcosm of America’s struggle to find a way forward.

by Tom Engelhardt
Or what it means to fall on a failing planet.