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Children and teenagers filed a climate lawsuit against the U.S. government in 2015. (Photo: Our Children's Trust, with permission)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The 9th Circuit failed to correct the legal errors in the panel decision," said the lead attorney in the case, who added that the case is now up to the nation's highest court.

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"If you want to become the number one country in the world when it comes to electric vehicles, we won't stand in your way," said Sunniva Whittaker, rector of the University of Agder. (Photo: Twitter screengrab from Universitetet i Agder)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
After the comedian noted that per-capita sales of electric vehicles are higher in Norway than in the U.S., a video from the Scandinavian country pointed out a few more reasons why life is better with social democracy.



Security forces respond with tear gas after President Donald Trump's supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, storming the building as lawmakers were set to sign off on President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory.

by Common Dreams staff
The new footage, said one Democratic aide, "shows a view of the Capitol that is quite extraordinary."



This picture taken February 10, 2021 in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh shows a woman viewing a tweet posted by the sister of Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul, Lina, showing a screenshot of them having a video call following Hathloul's release after nearly three years in detention.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Her ordeal remains a flagrant miscarriage of justice."



Taxi drivers block the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday, February 10, 2021.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We shut down the Brooklyn Bridge because only direct action will get us what we need: medallion debt forgiveness now!"



Flares burning off gas at Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site which is the fourth largest oil field in California. (Photo: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Our elected officials are sold out to Big Oil," said Public Citizen.



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during the confirmation hearing for Neera Tanden, nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), before the Senate Budget Committee on February 10, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee also pressed Tanden on her think tank's prolific fundraising from such corporate giants as Amazon, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase.



"This is not a feel-good story," said Public Citizen on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. "It's a dystopian nightmare." (Photo: Twitter screengrab from ABC7 News)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Americans owe $70 billion in back rent that they won't be able to pay. If we don't get them relief, there will be millions of stories like these."



Then-President Donald Trump speaks on the phone  in the Oval Office of the White House. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The former president also faces the ongoing U.S. Senate impeachment trial as well as civil and criminal probes in New York.



A placard by protesters lies on ground during the demonstration in Barcelona on January 25, 2021 against the imprisonment of Julian Assange.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"None of this is inevitable. At every step of the way, individuals with agency are actively choosing to continue the political case against Julian Assange that will have alarming consequences for journalism around the world."


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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 John Buell
America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation.



Luxury development, Hawai'i coastline. (Photo: Kai Nishiki)

by Kaniela Ing
If we invest enough, and we invest right, our communities—Black, Indigenous, Latinx, all of us—will finally get a taste of the good life that America has forever promised.



Attorney David Schoen, representing and defending former President Donald Trump, talks to reporters as members of former US President Donald Trump's legal defense team arrive prior to the start of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Trump, on charges of inciting the deadly attack on the US Capitol, in Washington,DC on February 10, 2021. (Photo by JOSHUA ROBERTS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

by David Hart
Do we, as a people, want the events of January 6th to be seen by history as the beginning of national healing, or will we allow it to be the start of an even worse time of division and violence in our nation?



Former Secretary of State, George Shultz died Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021 at the age of 100. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
By exclusion or distortion, establishment obituaries rewrite history to make the official heroes fit for adoration.



Farmworker Juan Antonio wears a face mask in a field in Riverhead, New York on April 14, 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis. (Photo: Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images).

by Jim Hightower
Here's a chance for progressives to rally a broad grassroots constituency to refocus the work of this huge public resource and make it The People's Department again.



The refusal to enforce the Buy American Act had also continued under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. (Photo by David Endelhardt via Creative Commons)

by Roger Bybee
The President’s plan to reinforce the Buy American Act is the first step in reviving the U.S. industry.


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