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A Yemeni child holds missile shrapnel outside a factory destroyed in airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition, which also killed three civilians and injured six others, on January 20, 2019 in Sana'a, Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"This decision is the result of years of activism from Yemeni Americans and grassroots activists all over the world. Congrats to lovers of peace everywhere who know #YemenCantWait."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a press conference on January 30, 2019, as Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and Ken Buck (R-Co.) stand around him as a bipartisan group announced reintroduction of a joint Senate and House resolution to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. (

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Yemen needs food, medicine, and healthcare—not bombs and blockades," said Sanders.



 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks at a news conference introducing the 'People’s Housing Platform' on Capitol Hill on January 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"You previously told reporters yourself that you barricaded in your office, afraid you'd be hurt," the New York congresswoman told one of her Republican colleagues.



A law enforcement officer watches flames launch into the air as fire continues to spread at the Bear fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The Sunrise Movement's executive director called it "a good sign that our leaders are finally understanding what young people and climate activists have been shouting from the rooftops for years."



Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del) walk out of the West Wing after meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House February 3, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Let's be really, really clear. Doing this will cost Democrats control of the Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024... It is a colossally bad idea."



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on January 27, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Eighty-three percent of the benefits of the Trump tax plan went to the 1% and large corporations... There was not one Democrat that voted for that bill."



Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks during a press conference about student debt outside the U.S. Capitol on February 4, 2021 in Washington, D.C., flanked by Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Sens. Warren and Schumer, along with Rep. Pressley, are leading the push for the president to "lift this impossible burden" on borrowers.



Demonstrators hold a banner calling for impeachment of President Donald Trump during a protest outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on January 7, 2021. (

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"You have... attempted to put critical facts at issue notwithstanding the clear and overwhelming evidence of your constitutional offense," the letter to Trump says.



Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) heads to the Senate floor before being called into session on January 26, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If the GOP actually wanted to provide Covid relief, they'd introduce amendments to do so. Instead they're going to introduce what they believe are gotcha amendments to try to trip up Dems."



Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) leaves her office at the U.S. Capitol on February 3, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The Republican Party backed Greene's run for Congress. Party bigwigs campaigned for her. The party faithful apparently would be happy to make Greene president in the future. They are now the RepubliQan Party."


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Civilians, who fled from the ongoing civil war where numerous civilian killed, are seen during their daily lives despite many difficulties at Al-Raqah refugee camp in Amran province of northern Sanaa, Yemen on November 24, 2019. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Shayna Lewis
It’s time to confront the powerful interests of the arms industry, stop arms sales to those who are indiscriminately bombing civilians, and end U.S. complicity in the war in Yemen for good.



President of the Republic of Haiti H.E. Jovenel Moise speaks onstage during the 2018 Concordia Annual Summit - Day 2 at Grand Hyatt New York on September 25, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

by Bianca Mugyenyi
Canadian officials have barely criticized any of Moïse’s authoritarian measures. On the contrary, Ottawa has backed Moïse at almost every turn.



Anti-mask and assorted right-wing protestors outside the Ohio statehouse (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Mitchell Zimmerman
There can be no reasonable compromise between those determined to confront the crises America faces and those who deny that the problems exist—and have indeed aggravated them.



Activists participate in a rally urging the expansion of Social Security benefits in front of the White House July 13, 2015 in Washington, DC. Social Security Works, the AFL-CIO and additional organizations held the event to deliver "more than 2 million petition signatures" in support of expanding Social Security benefits. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Max Richtman
Without Social Security, 38% of elderly Americans would fall into poverty.



Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. - Donald Trump's supporters stormed a session of Congress held today, January 6, to certify Joe Biden's election win, triggering unprecedented chaos and violence at the heart of American democracy and accusations the president was attempting a coup. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert Lipsyte
The Super Bowl ends the most toxic season ever.



A young migrant girl sits on the floor as her father, recently released from federal detention with other Central American asylum seekers, gets a bus ticket at a bus depot on June 11, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. (Photo: Loren Elliott/AFP/Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
As long as there are divisions in humanity, and thus in understanding, no one can possibly be secure.


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