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Twenty-six-year-old Iman Saleh, on hunger strike for Yemen, speaks during a press conference while joined by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on April 9, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"My pain cannot amount to that of Yemenis under siege," said one hunger striker. "I am starving, but I am not being starved. I am suffering, but I can choose to end that suffering."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In most states, it is easier to buy an AR-15 than it is to join a union."


Critics of the Dakota Access and Line 3 pipelines urge President Joe Biden to "Build Back Fossil Free" at the Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 2021. The protest included a 200-foot-long black snake, representing the threats the projects pose to Indigenous communities. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"If Biden wants to be a climate leader on the world stage, he needs to start at home."



by Nick Jacobs
A misguided technological revolution is about to sweep through food systems, but civil society and social movements can stop it in its tracks.


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.


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.


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."


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."


The cover of the new report from Public Citizen—titled "The Corporate Sponsors of Voter Suppression"—features a photoshopped version of an image of Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signing that state's voter suppression bill into law last month with a painting in the background overlaid with logos of major corporate donors who have lavished campaign contributions on the GOP in recent years.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"No matter how many PR statements Big Business puts out, its complicity with the antidemocratic forces that want to make voting harder is clear."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A high global minimum tax can change the face of globalization—by making its main winners (multinational companies) pay more in taxes, instead of them paying less and less."

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