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Margaret Keenan, 90, who was the first patient in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine, talks with healthcare assistant Lorraine Hill while preparing to leave University Hospital Coventry on December 9, 2020, a day after receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Jonny Weeks/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Campaigners are warning that nine out of 10 people in poor countries are set to miss out on Covid-19 vaccine in 2021.


People wait in line to vote in Georgia's Primary Election on June 9, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

by Ralph Nader
Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running.


Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) talks with reporters during a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus in the Capitol on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The text of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids members of Congress from engaging in rebellion against the United States. Trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that."


Police barricades stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on December 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"It's over over over over and 90% of GOP needs to recognize reality."


Local residents line up outside the food pantry Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger to receive free food during the Covid-19 pandemic on April 23, 2020 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Honestly, if Biden is able to keep his own campaign promises," says Justice Democrats co-founder Saikat Chakrabarti, "that'll be pretty good."


The barriers to Medicare for All, wrote Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project, "are not technical deficiencies or costs, but rather political opposition from Republicans and conservative Democrats who would rather spend more money to provide less health care." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The analysis shows that administrative costs under a single-payer healthcare system "will be lower than what even the most rabid Medicare for All supporters have traditionally claimed."


People line up in cars to receive food at the Share Your Christmas food distribution event in Kissimmee, Florida on December 10, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
More than half of the House GOP caucus has endorsed a likely doomed-to-fail Texas lawsuit seeking to undo the results of the November presidential election.


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) arrives at the U.S. Capitol on October 20, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Corporate welfare? Endless amounts of money," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Now when children are going hungry in America and so many families are struggling, suddenly we don't have enough money?"


U.S. President Donald Trump introduces EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler during an event to unveil significant changes to the National Environmental Policy Act at the White House on January 9, 2020. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This is an egregious 11th-hour attempt to handcuff the incoming administration and undercut the benefits of clean air—in the worst days of a global health crisis."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Though the international community recognizes water access as an essential human right, hedge fund managers and public water agencies are poised to begin profiting off water scarcity, which experts say will worsen in the coming years in the U.S. as well as other countries.

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