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Tyonna Stinnie working toward her certification at SED Child Development Center training for potential child care workers on August 3, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Heidi Shierholz
Care isn't a burden for women and families to shoulder alone. It's the foundation of our economy, and it deserves to be treated as such.


Then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr holds a news conference at the Department of Justice on December 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Michael Reynolds-Pool via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"When the government spies on journalists and their sources, it jeopardizes freedom of the press," said the ACLU.


Tom Barrack, a real estate investor and founder of Colony Capital, delivers a speech on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
America does have a serious fascism problem, but it goes way beyond the kinds of authoritarianism displayed by people like Donald Trump, Rick Scott, Ted Cruz, or Tom Cotton.


A medical worker inoculates a man with a dose of the Covaxin Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination centre in KC General government hospital in Bangalore on May 7, 2021. (Photo: Manjunath Kiran / AFP/Getty Images)

by Jayati Ghosh
The world desperately needs the TRIPS waiver and stronger measures to ensure the transfer of knowledge and technology to produce Covid-19 vaccines.


Activists across four continents held protests on Friday calling on banks to stop backing the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. (Photo: Stop the Money Pipeline)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Those who financially back Enbridge are directly implicated in its crimes," says a Red Lake Anishinaabe citizen and organizer. "To put it bluntly, blood is on their hands."


Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian man during May 7, 2021 demonstrations against the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. (Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The U.S. government, she said, "must show more leadership in safeguarding Palestinian rights."


A male gray wolf walks through fresh snow in Montana. (Photp: Dennis Fast / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"State 'management' of wolves in Idaho and Montana harkens back to an era when people sought to exterminate wolves altogether, and nearly succeeded."


People living with diabetes, activists, faith leaders, and healthcare advocates rallied in front of the New York Stock Exchange to commemorate World Diabetes Day as part of a National Day of Action called by the Lower Drug Prices Now Campaign on November 14, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We can do it with all lifesaving pharmaceuticals," tweeted one group.


Demonstrators hold a rally to "Free the Vaccine," calling on the U.S. to commit to a global coronavirus plan that includes sharing formulas with the world to help ensure that every nation has access to a vaccine, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2021. Shortly after the rally kicked off, the Biden administration announced its support for a global waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines, and said it will negotiate the terms at the World Trade Organization. (Photo: Saul Loeb / AFP

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This has a real potential to help save lives, strengthen the economy, improve international relations, and eventually end this awful pandemic."

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