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The Week in Review

At Least 58 Dead After Migrant Boat Breaks Apart Near Italian Coast

20 minors are among the dead, including one newborn

February 26, 2023

Progressives Urge Senate Dems to Ditch Tradition That's Allowing GOP to Veto Biden Judges

"Senate Democrats should eliminate every barrier possible" to confirm President Joe Biden's judicial nominees, said Indivisible.

February 24, 2023

'I Am Disturbed': Locals Alarmed Over Plan to Inject Toxic Ohio Wastewater Underground in Texas

"It's foolish to put it on the roadway," said one Houston-area resident. "We have accidents on a regular basis. Do they really want to have another contamination zone?"

February 24, 2023

Sanders Pushes Biden to Embrace Social Security Expansion

"It is not enough to point out the reactionary, anti-worker vision of the Republican Party," the democratic socialist senator stressed. "We have to present a positive, pro-worker alternative."

February 24, 2023

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to 'Unconstitutional' Arkansas Anti-BDS Law

"The struggle for collective liberation requires global solidarity and economic pressure," said U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib. "Today's decision is a travesty, but the people will not be silenced."

February 22, 2023

'Gift to the Ruling Class': Florida Bill Would Make It Easier for Officials Like DeSantis to Sue Critics

"Floridians should not tolerate their governor's experiments in authoritarianism in their name and at their expense."

February 21, 2023

Investigation Shows Rail Giant Donated to Ohio Governor a Month Before Toxic Crash

If Norfolk Southern "can pay for lobbyists and politicians, they can pay to clean up the mess they made in our community," said one local group.

February 20, 2023

Biden DOJ Supporting Rail Giant Norfolk Southern's Effort to Block Future Lawsuits

If the U.S. Supreme Court sides with the company behind the East Palestine disaster, workers and consumers could have less freedom to sue corporations.

February 17, 2023

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Opinion

Inequality Causing Massive Loss for Our Social Security System

When Congress set the cap on Social Security contributions in 1983, they didn’t anticipate forty years of rising inequality. And it’s cost us — a lot.

Linda Benesch

Why NPR's Layoffs Are a Public Policy Problem

The struggle to find the revenue to keep NPR reporters on their beats is a failure to advocate for policies that would increase the public funding it and other noncommercial media outlets need to thrive.

Tim Karr

Expanding Social Security Is Winning Policy and Politics for Democrats

Biden is right to highlight Republican attacks on Social Security. He should also propose a plan to expand it.

Nancy J. Altman

Seven Things We Could Do If We Cut the Pentagon by $100 Billion

About half of the Pentagon budget every year goes to corporate contractors who pay their CEOs multi-million dollar salaries.

Lindsay Koshgarian

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