by Kenny Stancil Republican governors vowing to sue over new vaccine rules are being "cavalier" about their constituents' health, said the president. "This isn't a game."
by Jessica Corbett Addressing those who call such policies attacks on personal freedom, one doctor said that "people also have a right to be able to go to work and not get infected and not get sick and not die."
by Jon Queally "I wondered if I would live to see one of America's most iconic weather records fall—the record for hottest summer, set in the great Dust Bowl of 1936," said one meteorologist. "Finally, in 2021, the record has fallen."
by Kenny Stancil The court's decision, said a coalition of civil rights groups, "serves as a powerful reminder that such unjust and unconstitutional efforts cannot stand."
by Jake Johnson "This is a nationwide crisis that requires a nationwide solution, and Congress must also do its part... This is a fight we cannot and must not lose."
by César Chelala New York has not been the same since the events of September 11, 2001. Twenty years after that dreadful day, the echoes of the tragedy persist.
by Rana Abdelhamid Because as much as American history is about triumphing over hardship, too often it's also been about finding a minority—of religion, of race, of sexuality, of immigration status—to blame for that hardship.
by Jeffrey C. Isaac If the Democrats are not able to pass both a substantial Democratic "infrastructure" bill and a very substantial voting rights bill, it is quite likely that the entire country will soon be Texas.
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