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A screengrab from Andrew Romanoff's first campaign ad entitled "Home."

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It's a catastrophe of our own creation—but it doesn't have to end this way," says Andrew Romanoff, a Democratic hopeful for U.S. Senate running in Colorado.

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cover photo for WHO report

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A multi-part World Health Organization report published Monday in the British medical journal The Lancet detailed the need to urgently transform the world's failing food systems to combat the coexistence of undernourishment and obesity—or the "double burden of malnutrition."


South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg attended a swanky fundraiser Sunday night at a winery owned by billionaire Democratic Party donors.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Why would many, many billionaires be contributing to candidates if they didn't think they were getting something out of it?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The financial institutions would get significant tax breaks for their investments, thanks to the 2017 Republican tax law.

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Donald Trump and his advisers know that this will kill people, and they do not care. Every current and future Social Security beneficiary must band together to defeat this horrific proposal, or else all of our earned benefits will be next."


Sign reads: Finance the future not fossil fuels

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The smart money on Wall Street is drawing red lines on oil and gas, and exiting coal."


Placards and messages in support of Julian Assange sit outside Ecuadorian Embassy stands in South Kensington on April 5, 2019 in London.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"That we, as doctors, feel ethically compelled to hold governments to account on medical grounds speaks volumes about the gravity of the medical, ethical, and human rights travesties that are taking place."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The 2017 tax law was a clear giveaway to corporations and their shareholders."


Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer holds a press conference on the anticipated impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump by the US Senate at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, December 16, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"We know the facts. We know the Constitution. We know what needs to be done."


Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Advocates for the environment, corporate accountability, and public health on Monday welcomed Sen. Cory Booker's new agricultural reform bill—which would impose a first-ever national moratorium on factory farms—as "the bold approach we need."


A protest against a controversial citizenship amendment bill turned violent when Delhi Police shot tear gas and beat students of Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, India on December 13, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Is this democracy? Where are we living?"

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Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren greet each other at the start of the Democratic presidential debate at the Fox Theatre on July 30, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
The need is for supporters to openly explain reasons for preferring Warren or Sanders while avoiding the start of a mutual demolition derby. In the process of strengthening progressive forces, it’s vital to defeat corporate Democrats, before proceeding to defeat Donald Trump.


When Bernie Sanders campaigned on his plan in 2016, he was seen as a disruptor but not necessarily a threat. That much, very clearly, has changed. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Mark Kreidler
A deeply funded lobbying group is out to kill Medicare for All. Its ideological roots run back to the Truman era.


The decay and rupture of the social bonds that once held our societies together have unleashed the dark pathologies of opioid, alcohol and gambling addictions and led to an explosion of hate crimes and mass shootings, along with suicide. (Photo: Mr. Fish / Truthdig)

by Chris Hedges
Economic tyranny lies at the root of the unrest in Hong Kong, India, Chile, France, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon as well as the rise of right-wing demagogues and false prophets such as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


The time to act, to educate, to build stronger movements, to scale up our best practices, to gain political power, is now. (Photo: Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)

by Ronnie Cummins
Without mass grassroots awareness and collective action, without a political revolution—the billionaires and corporations will destroy us all.


In 2019, Pentagon spending is actually higher than it was at the peak of either the Korean or Vietnam conflicts and may soon be—adjusted for inflation—twice the Cold War average. (Photo: David B. Gleason/flickr/cc)

by William Hartung
The stubborn persistence of the military-industrial state.


A Superfund site on the left, and the Waukegancoal plant that has been polluting groundwater with coal ash. (Photo: Derrick Z. Jackson)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
Priority for abused communities must pervade every aspect of a Green New Deal.

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