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People stand near the gate of a vaccination center with a notice saying "vaccine is over, closed for the day" in Mumbai. (Photo: Ashish Vaishnav/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
"W e can't count on the benevolence of Big Pharma c orporations" to end the pandemic, said one organization.

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A young mother from Honduras and her 1-year-old child are detained by United States Border Patrol after rafting across the Rio Grande on the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday, June 25, 2018, in Granjeno, Texas. (Photo Jahi Chikwendiu/<em>The Washington Post</em> via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We are happy that the first four families will be reunified this week, but this is only the beginning of a very long process involving more than 5,500 children."



An Israeli soldier points a rifle at a Palestinian man protesting then-President Donald Trump's so-called Middle East peace plan in the illegally occupied West Bank city of Hebron on February 28, 2020. (Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The United States cannot turn its back on the atrocities, including war crimes, enabled by U.S. policies, particularly its decadeslong policy of shielding Israel from accountability."



Hydrofluorocarbons, chemicals often used in refrigeration and air conditioning, are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of heating the planet. (Photo: PeopleImages/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
With this rule to reduce hydrofluorocarbons, "EPA is taking another significant step under President Biden's ambitious agenda to address the climate crisis," said the agency's administrator.



Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies via video conference during an Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We can't let Mark Zuckerberg continue to get filthy rich off of this exploitation of our personal info. We must reclaim our privacy."



In December 2016, the Belle Fourche pipeline spilled 180,000 gallons of crude oil into the Ash Coulee Creek in North Dakota, just a couple hours' drive from the site of a massive Indigenous-led protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock. (Photo: Jennifer Skjod/North Dakota Department of Health)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"There's simply no justification for allowing destructive and dangerous pipelines to avoid rigorous environmental review."



An employee at the Utah County election office prepares mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections on November 6, 2018 in Provo, Utah. (Photo: George Frey via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Still, as long as Senate Republicans refuse to support the bill, passing electoral reforms depends on eliminating the filibuster, which conservative Democrats have yet to endorse.



Activists protest outside of the home of Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) to denounce his comments opposing a coronavirus vaccine patent waiver on Sunday, May 3, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He is choosing to support vaccine apartheid to protect the pharma industry that has given tens of thousands to his campaign."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"President Biden's DOJ should ramp up enforcement to show that corporate criminals are not above the law," says author of new study.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
"After facing this crisis head on for far too long, our day in court is finally here," said the mayor of Huntington, W.V.


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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization, attends a session of the WTO General Council in Geneva on March 1, 2021. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

by John Buell
In the long term we must treat public health as a common good, a good upon which all of our virtues depend



In this screenshot from the DNCC’s livestream of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) addresses the virtual convention on August 18, 2020. The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: DNCC via Getty Images) (Photo by Handout/DNCC via Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd
This is the moment to put a stop to runaway spending on war and the nuclear arsenal.



Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference April 16, 2021 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo: Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jason Nickerson, Adam Houston
Expanding access to life-saving medical technologies during this pandemic is exactly what the world needs.




by Miles Mogulescu
Removing armed police officers from traffic enforcement and turning it over to civilians should be a major goal of the racial justice movement.



National Guard troops eat pizza while patrolling a street on January 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. Tens of thousands of National Guard troops were deployed to DC following the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. (Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

by Azadeh Shahshahani, Amith Gupta
We are told by some opponents of the far-right that supporters of equality and civil liberties should not be worried about expansions of U.S. surveillance and counterterrorism capabilities. They are wrong.



A farmer works on a broccoli field in San Bartolo, municipality, Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico on March 14, 2020. (Photo: Julio Cesar Aguilar / AFP)

by Timothy A. Wise
The pressure by the agribusiness industry continues, but we will keep up our fight.


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