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Your Week in Review


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) walks to the Senate Floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on December 18, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"As a government shutdown looms, and as the pandemic rages on across America, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to push through Trump's judges until the very end."


Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) attends a rally on December 04, 2020 in Savannah, Georgia.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"With U.S. senators brazenly trading stocks to profit off a raging pandemic, the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act is more urgent than ever."


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) walks to the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol on December 17, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The paid leave benefits have helped prevent thousands of coronavirus cases each day, but Republicans want them to expire.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talks during an interview with MSNBC in the Russell Rotunda in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The American people cannot wait any longer. They need economic relief now."


News organizations have big megaphones, and in 2020 we used them well to help steer our societies through a terrible pandemic. (Photo: Takver/flickr/cc)

by Mark Hertsgaard
Let 2021 be the year that we declare, in accordance with science, that humanity is facing a climate emergency—an emergency we promise to illuminate and, we hope, help humanity overcome.


Diane Yentel of the National Low Income Housing Coalition said that the consequences of congressional inaction on housing relief "will be deadly and costly—for children and families, for communities, and for our country's ability to contain the pandemic." (Photos: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images and John Moore/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Blackstone was a huge winner coming out of the global financial crisis, and I think something similar is going to happen," said the private equity firm's billionaire CEO Stephen Schwarzman as millions brace for eviction.


A grizzly bear takes a stroll on an autumn day in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (Photo: Ania Tuzel Photography/Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Today's rule will have devastating consequences for some of America's most iconic species, including the grizzly bear, whooping cranes, and Pacific salmon."


Young people, clergy members and essential workers rallied to call on congressional leaders to pass federal relief that goes directly to individuals and state governments on May 15, 2020 in Los Angeles. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Congress cannot continue to ignore the hunger, pain, and economic uncertainty that millions of people are facing," argues a grassroots coalition.


A medical staff member closes the zipper of a body bag that contains a deceased Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on November 25, 2020 in Houston. (Photo: Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"It is equal to a 9/11 attack every day for more than 100 days."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
To win on January 5, organizers say, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock should focus on getting direct economic relief to struggling Americans, raising the minimum wage, and the greed of the Republican Party.

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