by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We should have been prepared to start inoculating millions of people the day a vaccine was approved. This is a massive policy failure."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need $2,000 stimulus checks, not $740,000,000,000 for the Pentagon and private 'defense' contractors," said advocacy group CodePink.

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Additional arms deals this week include $4 billion in helicopters to Kuwait, $169 million in military equipment to Egypt, and $65 million in drones and fighter jets to UAE.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
A group of United Nations experts on the use of mercenaries said Wednesday that President Donald Trump committed an "affront to justice" earlier this month when he pardoned four former Blackwater security contractors for the war crimes they were convicted of in 2015.

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The radiation levels reported around shield plugs at two reactors are high enough to kill a worker exposed for even an hour.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"For countries reeling from the consequences of conflicts, disasters, and climate change, Covid-19 has turned a nutrition crisis into an imminent catastrophe."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is a victory for the women's movement in Argentina, which has been fighting for its rights for decades."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senate Republicans are going to try every conceivable way to try to kill the $2,000 checks."

by Julia Conley, staff writer
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley was accused of attempting to "overthrow democracy" and catering to his own political ambitions on Wednesday after he announced he plans to contest the Electoral College vote on January 6, when the U.S. Congress convenes to certify the election results.

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The bottom line is, there are still thousands of people who are at very high risk of death trapped in a prison system where there's no way that they can avoid the virus."

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The Rice family has been cheated of a fair process yet again," said family attorney Subodh Chandra.

by Gleb Tsipursky
These new strains should make you very worried indeed: they’re much more infectious.

by Joel Blei­fuss
New rules will help Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) turn the caucus into a force to be reckoned with.

by Sarah Lahm
Though the 2020 murder of George Floyd inspired a global racial reckoning, the injustices he faced date back to his childhood in the 1980s.

by Jim Hightower
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman documents that Golding had no knowledge of behavioral science and was hardly an impartial judge of children's propensities.

by Barbara Koeppel
Trump's benevolence has yet to reach two Black men who’ve been on death row since the 1990s and are slated to be killed in mid-January at the federal government’s maximum security prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

by Ken Kimmell
In a year in which virtually every trendline was in the wrong direction, this change in direction was a welcomed gift.