by Andrea Germanos, staff writer "As our country faces the interlocking challenges of a global pandemic, economic downturn, racial injustice, and the climate crisis, we must transition to a brighter future for everyone."
by Jake Johnson, staff writer "He's afraid that if Amazon workers in Alabama vote to unionize, it'll give workers all over America the courage to take on his greed and win economic justice."
by Jake Johnson, staff writer "We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are and so much reason for hope, but right now I'm scared."
by Jessica Corbett, staff writer "The Georgia NAACP will continue to fight until every voter is able to freely and confidently participate in democracy," vowed the state president.
by Jenna McGuire, staff writer "The best we can do is implement a 21st century Marshall Plan and help to rebuild Central America in the same ways that we have destroyed it."
by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Vaccines must be treated as public goods available at affordable prices, available for all," said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
by Jon Queally, staff writer French President Emannuel Macron, said one demonstrator, "is going backwards—he's performing a moonwalk, he's an artist who pretends to go forward but in fact he's only going backwards."
by Kenny Stancil, staff writer "The malicious incompetence that resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths starts at the top, with the former President and his enablers."
by Andrew Bacevich The siege of ancient Troy, which lasted a decade, inspired Homer to write the Iliad . Although the American war in Afghanistan has now gone on almost twice as long, don’t expect it to be memorialized in an epic poem.
by Robert Reich The "surge" has been fabricated by Republicans in order to stoke fear—and, not incidentally, to justify changes in laws they say are necessary to prevent non-citizens from voting.
by H. Patricia Hynes The biggest Tax Day elephant in the room resides in the 5-sided military mansion, the Pentagon, with its criminally large budget—nearly a trillion dollars each year siphoned from our tax dollars.
by Servaas Storm Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse.
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