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Activists hold signs reading "We Are Treating the Symptoms, Not the Cause" and "There Is No Planet B" during a climate justice demonstration outside the Spanish Parliament on September 25, 2020 in Madrid. (Photo: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"It is truly groundbreaking," Greta Thunberg said of the growing concentration of the heat-trapping gas. "And I don't mean that in a good way."

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Construction workers make infrastructure repairs on April 6, 2021 in New York City. (Photo: Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
A new survey shows that "every major aspect" of the Democratic president's plan to rebuild the country has majority support, regardless of party affiliation.



LGBTQ activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of New York City Hall, October 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This bill will drive families, doctors and businesses out of the state, and sends a terrible and heartbreaking message to transgender people who are watching in fear," warned the ACLU.



Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and dozens of House Democrats introduced the We the People Amendment—which would reverse the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and end corporate personhood—on April 6, 2021. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The Washington Democrat said the proposed amendment "ends corporate constitutional rights, reverses Citizens United , and ensures that our democracy is really of the people, by the people—not corporations."



Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks about Senate Democrats legislative accomplishments as he holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Democrats get owned on regulatory issues day in and day out," said one critic. "The problem is they didn't want to do the work."



Electric induction stovetops are more energy-efficient, healthier, and safer than gas ranges. (Photo: Dennis Schroeder via National Renewable Energy Lab).

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"A new technological revolution is underway to replace fossil fuel heating and cooking with electric technologies."



A picture taken on August 9, 2018 during a trip in Yemen organized by the UAE's National Media Council (NMC) shows Yemeni children whose legs were amputated after they were injured by landmines

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is the wrong approach," said the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines.



Students and community members listen to speakers on the steps of LAUSD headquarters urging LAUSD to defund school police and eliminate their budget. Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Students deserve more than an education system that is hell-bent on criminalizing them instead of providing them with the resources they need to succeed."



An activist holds a USPS envelope while protesting Donald Trump's visit on August 17, 2020 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Instead of holding DeJoy accountable, the USPS Board of Governors confirmed what I always suspected was true," said Sen. Tammy Duckworth.



Pedestrians wearing face masks walk past a commercial advertisement billboard of the American multinational financial services corporation and credit card business American Express in Hong Kong.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"That starts with ending incentives to ship jobs overseas and closing loopholes that allow companies to stash their profits in tax havens."


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Only 6.4% of America’s private-sector workers are unionized, providing little collective pressure on Amazon, Walmart, or other major employers to treat their workers any better. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
Today’s largest employers are Amazon and Walmart, each paying far less per hour and routinely exploiting their workers, who have little recourse.



U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, deploy from Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina on January 1, 2020. (Photo: Capt. Robyn Haake / US ARMY / AFP via Getty Images)

by Nan Levinson
Just how extreme are the soldiers in the U.S. military?



So long as Trump’s “sanctions wall” sanctions remain in place, there is no plausible way that the United States can provide effective sanctions relief to warrant Iran’s resumption of the nuclear constraints contained in the JCPOA. (Photo: Matt Anderson Photography/Getty/Stock photo)

by Tyler Cullis, Trita Parsi
Whether Biden will clear the minefield Trump has left behind will primarily be determined in Washington, not Vienna. It will require both political will and capital.



The Carbon Tax Center calls on Citizens Climate Lobby to develop meaningful, transparent criteria for maintaining membership in its Climate Solutions Caucus. (Photo: Guy Gorek/Flickr/cc)

by Charles Komanoff
We at Carbon Tax Center believe that removing climate deniers from the Climate Solutions Caucus could help rehabilitate carbon taxing in the public conversation.



In the richest country in the world, nobody should ever go without the care they need. (Photo: Getty Images/Stock Photo/Malte Mueller)

by Laura Packard
We should be working to strengthen the protections of the Affordable Care Act and expand health care to all, not punch holes in the foundation.



Members of El Maizal Commune celebrating their 12 year anniversary. (Photo: Marcos Rubén García)

by Leonardo Flores
For Venezuelans, there is no one "January 6." There are at least half a dozen.


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