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A healthcare worker administers an Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to her colleague at Mutuini Hospital in Nairobi.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We have the means to avert this failure but it's shocking how little has been done to avert it."

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President Joe Biden speaks, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris, at Emory University in Atlanta on March 19, 2021. (Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"It's time for the rich and corporations to pay their fair share in taxes."


Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) was one of seven Democratic senators to vote against including a $15 federal minimum wage in the American Rescue Plan. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The verdict is clear—in Arizona, voting to raise the minimum wage is the smartest political move."


Migrants are shown at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas. (Photo: provided by Rep. Henry Cuellar)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Photos of children packed into makeshift detention centers highlight the need for press access to such centers so people can see the 'inhumanity' in U.S. immigration policy."


(Taken Pre-Pandemic) A demonstrator holds a sign at a rally in front of the New York Stock Exchange on November 14, 2019.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The time is now to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and say enough is enough."


Joe Biden speaks alongside Barack Obama during a signing ceremony on December 13, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"With a new wave of Big Tech antitrust investigations today, it's time to stop appointing industry allies to top regulatory jobs."


United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Agnès Callamard delivers her report on the execution of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 26, 2019. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"It didn't stop me from acting in a way which I think is the right thing to do," said Agnès Callamard, the top investigator into the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.


Healthcare workers walk out of a King Sooper's Grocery store after a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You're going to see another round of 'we can't do anything yet, there was a tragedy' hand-wringing, but we must end gun violence now."


A group of protestors hold a demonstration in front of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's home in Greensboro, North Carolina on August 16, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Fire the entire Post Office board. Then fire this corrupt man before he destroys the entire USPS for good."


Postmaster General Louis DeJoy departs a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on February 24, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This so-called plan from Louis DeJoy should itself be a dead letter. This is a blueprint for the Post Office's continued decay and destruction."

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A construction crew works on a fallen section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall as seen from Mexicali, Baja California state, Mexico, on January 29, 2020. (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

by Todd Miller
The greater the disaster, the greater the profits.


The debt whiners are fond of telling stories about how the debt is a burden on our children, or how the debt can lead to financial crisis and other bad things, but these claims are inventions, not economic realities. (Photo: Getty/Stock Photo/eyegelb)

by Dean Baker
The national debt is a meaningless number.


A U.S. fighter jet practices maneuvers over the desert. (Photo: U.S. Air Force by Master Sgt. Benjamin Bloker)

by Alfred W. McCoy
China and the U.S. struggle over Eurasia, the epicenter of world power.


Three handguns and three long guns. (Photo by: David Underwood/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
American mass murders are a remnant of our slave patrols; RBG was right that Heller was wrongly decided and needs to be overturned.


Richard Trumka, President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), speaks during a press conference advocating for the passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act in the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

by Nora De La Cour
Labor unions reduce inequality, promote cross-racial solidarity, and boost democratic participation.


Members of the Bad Asian and Civic Walls groups paint a mural near Krog Street Tunnel on March 21, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. The murals are in remembrance of the eight lives lost at the three spa shootings in Atlanta this past week. All across the United States people have banned together to show support for Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities after the shootings that left eight dead, six of whom were Asian women. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
The pandemic and the poisonous rhetoric of Donald Trump have exposed once more the hard work that must be done to bring together an inclusive society.

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