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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) shouts at journalists as she goes through security outside the House Chamber at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on January 12, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The focus has to be on the Republican leadership of this House of Representatives for the disregard they have for the death of those children," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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"We now need to know more about Robinhood's decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday, January 28, 2021. (Photo Illustration: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"They're blocking the ability to trade to protect Wall St. hedge funds, stealing millions of dollars from their users to protect people who've used the stock market as a casino for decades."



Activists participate in a rally urging the expansion of Social Security benefits in front of the White House on July 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Wonderful news," said one activist.



Medical staff members treat a patient suffering from Covid-19 in the intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on October 31, 2020 in Houston. (Photo: Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The GAO reveals that even after the agency "made 27 different recommendations aimed at improving the response, the Trump administration failed to implement them."



Missiles stand at a Raytheon installation during the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England, in July 2018. (Photo: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The head of the world's fourth-biggest arms maker showed no concern that the Saudis can't buy his bombs—for now.



David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida., speaks on the East Front of the Capitol during a rally to organize letters to be delivered to congressional offices calling for an expansion of background checks on gun purchases on Monday, March 25, 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The Parkland mass shooting survivor's comments come as a March 2019 video of Greene chasing after and yelling at him circulates online.



Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on December 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Congress should err on the side of offering generous relief to a larger pool of people, rather than too little."



A woman walks past the GameStop store inside the Susquehanna Valley Mall. An online group sent share prices of GameStop (GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. (AMC) soaring in an attempt to squeeze short sellers. (Photo: Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Wall Street and stock market are metaphors for a society rotting from self-indulgence, greed, widening inequality, and financial entrepreneurship that builds nothing, improves nothing, creates nothing, and solves nothing."



"For too long Corporate America has been able to influence our democracy in the shadows with CEOs welcoming the opportunity to push their agenda in Washington," said Lisa Gilbert of Public Citizen. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The attack at the Capitol warrants more than shallow promises to merely pause political donations. We must rededicate America's grand experiment to its foundational principle—government of, for, and by the people."



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks at a press conference at Corona Plaza in Queens on April 14, 2020 in New York City.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"No consequences means that they condone it."


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The first day of the 2020 school year in Taiz, Yemen. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Nothing in Biden's long record in public life suggests that he will, unless the American public and the rest of the world act collectively and effectively to insist that America must end its war on children and finally become a responsible, law-abiding member of the human family.



Artist Jonas Never (@never1959) applies finishing touches to his mural of Senator Bernie Sanders in Culver City, California on January 24, 2021. Standing out in a crowd of glamorously dressed guests, Bernie Sanders showed up for the US presidential inauguration in a heavy winter jacket and patterned mittens—with an AFP photo of the veteran leftist spawning the first viral meme of the Biden era.  (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

by Laura Flanders
"If you like the Bernie meme, you’re going to love Healthcare For All."



A Trump supporter in Washington, D.C., draped in the Confederate battle flag. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Kerri Kennedy
I’ve spent my entire career on peacebuilding after conflict. Here’s how we avoid becoming a failed state.



Ronald Scott, a central neighborhood resident for more than 10 years, takes a photo of the memorial mural over flowers and banners laid in the memory of George Floyd outside of Cup Foods on May 29, 2020. (Photo: Steel Brooks/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Marjorie Cohn
Testimony elicited at the hearings exposes two systems of justice—one for whites and one for Blacks.



Among the top funders of outside groups that helped elect the GOP election deniers are (clockwise from top left) Sheldon Adelson, Miriam Adelson, Ken Griffin, Stephen Schwarzman, Joe Ricketts, Richard Uihlein, and Liz Uihlein. (Photo: U.S. Air Force, David Rubenstein/YouTube, World Economic Forum, Cornstalker/Wikimedia, Uline/YouTube)

by Alex Kotch
Major companies and executives of Wall Street firms, fossil fuel businesses, a casino empire, and a shipping giant supplied super PACs and other outside spending groups with hundreds of millions of dollars to elect the Republican election deniers.



To add insult to injury, the FCC is now seeking the Supreme Court’s approval for changes in regulations it made in 2017 that, among other things, relax the agency prohibitions on ownership across different media. (Photo: PJMixer / Flickr)

by Beth Brodsky, Daniel A. Hanley
The Supreme Court, hearing a challenge on Tuesday, should reject insufficient regulatory oversight.


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