by Jake Johnson "The climate crisis has not disappeared," said Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. "It's the opposite—it's even more urgent now than it was before."
by Jake Johnson Public health campaigners said the investigation confirms "what we suspected all along. Vaccine nationalism and pharma profits trumped Covid solidarity."
by Kenny Stancil The latest passage of the NDAA "is particularly strong evidence that Pentagon contractors' interests easily take precedence over national security and the public interest for too many members of Congress," said one critic.
by Jessica Corbett "This is a moment of crisis," said one activist. "We cannot allow the filibuster, or anything else, to stand in the way of safeguarding our fundamental freedoms."
by Charlene Dickerson, Shantonia Jackson We cannot confront or disband the links between structural racism and poor job quality in long-term care and create an equitable caregiving system for all without intentionally investing in a critical workforce that is majority women-of-color.
by Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Farah Brelvi There is a terrible theme that runs throughout the story of the United States: when a group of people are seen as a threat, state power has been used to oppress them.
by Chuck Idelson The racist underpinnings of Texas' crusade to hold back the tide of social and demographic change that threatens to upend the far right's hold on power should not be a surprise in a state that was founded by white slave owners.
by Yanis Varoufakis Donald Trump humiliated the European Union by annulling the Iran nuclear deal, and now Joe Biden has done so by announcing the new AUKUS agreement with Australia and the UK. But as much as Europe's leaders may protest, the EU's subordination to the US reflects a conscious choice that they have made.
by Subhankar Banerjee What makes biodiversity conservation so beautiful is that it is a pluriverse—so many ideas, so many practices, and so many forms of human-nonhuman kinship that exist around the world.
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