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News & Views | 4/26/21

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Relatives of a person who died of Covid-19 at a crematorium on April 25, 2021 in Noida, India.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is a start. But not nearly enough. President Biden promised that intellectual property law would not block the Global South from producing the vaccine."

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U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (2nd L), Democrat of Massachusetts, speaks alongside fellow members of Congress and Supreme Court advocates as they introduce a bill in Congress to expand the number of seats on the court from nine to 13, in Washington, D.C., April 15, 2021. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The choice has never been so clear. And the stakes can be measured in human lives."


Former drug felons are partially or fully barred from Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in 34 states. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Once a person has served their time, we should be ensuring they have the tools to succeed and become productive members of society."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The report confirms that "n atural gas is the precise opposite of a climate solution," wrote author and activist Bill McKibben.

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View a transgenic Aedes aegypti OX513A mosquito, created by Oxitec, in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 26, 2016.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The release of genetically engineered mosquitoes puts Floridians, the environment, and endangered species at risk in the midst of a pandemic."


Peace activists gathered outside the Internal Revenue Service offices in Manhattan on April 15, 2021 to protest against spending federal tax dollars on the Pentagon and U.S. wars. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
At $778 billion, U.S. military expenditure—4.4% higher in 2020 than in 2019—accounted for 39% of the world total.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The government's mass deportations of Cameroonian and other Black immigrants are inhumane and targeted."


A first grade student at the Green Mountain School listens to his teacher on February 18, 2021 in Woodland, Washington.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is the most equitable change to Washington state's upside-down tax code in nearly 90 years," says the Washington State Budget and Policy Center.


Billionaire Bill Gates on Sunday argued against a temporary patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization during an interview with Sky News. (Photo: Screenshot/Sky News)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Who appointed this billionaire head of global health?" asked one critic. "Oh yeah, he did."


Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures at the gathering during a public rally for West Bengal Assembly Election at Barasat on April 12, 2021 in North 24 Parganas, India. (Photo by Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

by Common Dreams staff
"I'm sorry," said one critic, "but Modi's authoritarian government can go to hell if they dare to silence the true human suffering."


Doctor Emory Lewis gives a memory test to new Medicare patient, Helen Kinne, 88-years-old, while a concerned daughter, Deborah Kinne, looks on, at the family clinic in Reedville, Virginia, Monday, December 12, 2011. With approximately 65 percent of his patients insured by Medicare, Doctor Lewis, is closely watching the upcoming DocFix vote in Congress. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Lowering the Medicare eligibility age is not only the right thing to do from a public policy perspective," stated a letter to Biden on Sunday, "it is also what the overwhelming majority of Americans support."

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) speaks during a news conference with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to announce legislation that would tax the net worth of America's wealthiest individuals at the U.S. Capitol on March 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh
Leading research and movement organizations and progressive Democrats call for rapid passage of legislation to transform the economy.


Family members and relatives carry the body of a victim who died of the Covid-19 coronavirus amid burning pyres of other victims at a cremation ground in New Delhi on April 26, 2021. (Photo: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)

by Will Bunch
With people dying in India's streets, Biden's failure to share vaccine doses, ingredients, and tech is becoming a moral failure that will haunt America.


Corporate media sometimes showed us the victims of the housing crisis, but hardly ever their victimizers—and the policymakers behind the Great Recession. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jeff Cohen
Although it's acknowledged that Black people and other people of color are consistently at the bottom of the caste system, there's no examination of the powerful interests that put them there.


1 in 7 children were languishing in poverty before the COVID-19 pandemic began. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Hilary Hoynes
When families with young children get access to cash welfare, that support has even been linked to higher earnings in adulthood and longer lives.


A 2020 U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan notes that 2019 was the sixth straight year in which 10,000 civilians were killed or wounded. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

by Rajan Menon
The graveyard of empires redux.


A North Atlantic Right Whale sounds while feeding on plankton in Cape Cod Bay, off the coast of Provincetown. (Photo: Bill Greene/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

by Tim Whitehouse, Kyla Bennett
Cottontail, one of about 350 remaining North Atlantic right whales, did not have an easy life.

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