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Your Week in Review


The Psagot Winery—which is located in the illegally occupied West Bank, in the exclusively Jewish settlement of Psagot—has named a wine after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Such a decision attempts to legitimize settlement-manufactured goods as well as the theft of Palestinian land and products," said Palestine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


President Donald Trump climbs into golf cart number 45 as he golfs at Trump National Golf Club on December 13, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The ability of millions of Americans to pay rent and buy groceries hangs in the balance, and Donald Trump spent the day golfing."


Rev. William Barber speaks during a rally in Washington, D.C. on June 12, 2019.

by Erik Gunn
The Poor People's Campaign and Congressional Progressive Caucus team up to chart a course for the future.

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Tens of millions of people at risk of eviction in one week "can't wait for Trump and McConnell to get on the same page," said former HUD secretary Julián Castro, adding that the CDC "must extend the moratorium immediately." (Photo: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Allowing tens of millions of people to be evicted in the dead of winter in the middle of a resurgence of Covid-19 cases and deaths is unconscionable."


Trump rolled out an additional list of pardons that includes longtime adviser Roger Stone. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Ralph Nader
Trump and future presidents cannot be allowed to brazenly dishonor justice and undermine the rule of law.


A protest against Morocco's illegal occupation of Western Sahara on December 20, 2020 in San Sebastian, Spain. (Photo: Javi Julio/SOPA Images/Light Rocket via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The move comes two weeks after the U.S. became the first country to recognize Morocco's claim of sovereignty in the illegally occupied territory.


House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), surrounded fellow House Republicans, speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol December 10, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Pathetic," said the Vermont senator.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"I feel like she wanted to insert a choice expletive in the middle of that."


House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) arrives for a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on December 18, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The House GOP is spending this holiday season trying to block $2,000 survival payments for families struggling to keep food on the table."


While Dems failed to get an antiwar candidate nominated in 1968, the movement was alive and influential within the party. In 1972, McGovern (pictured above) was nominated. His landslide loss empowered the nation’s pro-war interests to marginalize progressives for the next half-century. (Photo by Ron Pownall/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
It’s time for Democrats to matter: to become a party that stands for something again, to be more than simply safe, bipartisan Republicans-lite, whose MO is to offer voters the lesser evil candidate on Election Day.

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