by Jessica Corbett "It's time President Biden doubled down on his campaign commitments to end our reliance on fossil fuels by stopping the leasing of public lands for fossil fuel extraction and halting the construction of fossil fuel infrastructure projects."
by Julia Conley "Texas already had some of the most restrictive voting laws in the nation, and the passage of this egregious bill just made conditions for voters even worse," said one voting rights advocate.
by Kenny Stancil Miller, who traveled to Brazil to speak with the country's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of Tuesday's anti-democracy marches, has been permitted to return to the U.S. after being questioned at a Brazilian airport.
by Jessica Corbett Bolstering the case for urgent policy change, the sector's top 20 companies collectively produce more planet-heating emissions than some fossil fuel giants and European countries.
by Jake Johnson "If we don't deliver, then I think all of the people who came out and voted for Democrats to take control of the House, the Senate, and the White House are going to come out and say, 'that's it.'"
by Julia Conley "Urgent international action is needed to support millions of people with the necessities of life through the coming months and Afghanistan's harsh winter," said head of the Afghan Red Crescent.
by Jake Johnson "A safe, inclusive, and just global climate conference is impossible given the failure to allow vaccines to reach millions of people in poor countries."
by Norman Solomon Calling those who exploit this law "whistleblowers" is a way to turn the true meaning of whistleblowing on its head. We might as well have history books referring to enforcers of the Fugitive Slave Act as "good Samaritans," or monitors of Jim Crow compliance as "civic activists."
by K. Jessica Hsu, Mark Schuller Centering Haitian people as the true heroes in their own recovery is a first step in rewriting the disaster narrative, and an act of solidarity that makes the future of Haiti look different and brighter.
by Brian Terrell What the U.S. did to Afghanistan and its people is not a series of mistakes or good intentions gone awry, but crimes. And there's still no end in sight.
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