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Senators Bill Cassidy, Kyrsten Sinema, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney hold a bipartisan meeting on infrastructure in the basement of the U.S. Capitol building on June 8, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

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By Refusing to Tax the Rich, GOP Set Terms of Bipartisan Infrastructure Debate

Republicans refuse to revise tax cuts for the wealthy, so a bipartisan group looked to raise revenue off everyone else.

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

A police officer detains a child found drying cocoa in the village of Opouyo in the Soubre region of the Ivory Coast during an operation to remove children working on cocoa plantations.

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Supreme Court Ruled Against Enslaved Children Even as US Celebrated Juneteenth

Child laborers on West African cocoa plantations are beaten, locked up and forced to toil for U.S. corporate profits.

by: Barbara Ransby,; Truthout

Renters and housing advocates attend a protest to cancel rent and avoid evictions in front of a court house on August 21, 2020, in Los Angeles, California.

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California Rent Forgiveness Shows It’s Possible to Shift Our National Priorities

Government -- local, state and federal -- can actually help us if we invest in people's lives instead of wars.

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

White House Press secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing at the White House on June 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

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Filibuster “Conversation” to Happen If GOP Blocks Voting Rights Bill, Psaki Says

Republicans are poised to block a procedural vote on Tuesday that would begin formal debate on the For the People Act.

by: Chris Walker,; Truthout

Sen. Rand Paul speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on May 28, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

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20 Attorneys General Urge Postal Commission to Reject DeJoy’s Plan to Slow Mail

The postmaster’s plan to further slow mail would only compound the USPS’s service problems, the officials write.

by: Sharon Zhang,; Truthout

Black Lives Matter protesters march on the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, in Brooklyn, New York, on May 25, 2021.

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To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing

Activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective struggle to end neoliberal capitalism.

by: Henry A. Giroux,; Truthout

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema arrives for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee markup in Dirksen Building on June 16, 2021.

Sinema’s Op-Ed Defending the Filibuster Is a Triumph for Republican Obstruction

The senator’s argument comes just as Republicans are about to use the filibuster to block voting rights legislation.

by: Sharon Zhang,; Truthout

Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, who were hired by the Arizona State Senate, examine and recount ballots from the 2020 general election at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May 1, 2021, in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglass delivers a Sunday sermon at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on December 10, 2017.

Black Womanist Theology Offers Hope in the Face of White Supremacy

Resisting despair honors "all of those grandmothers who kept fighting for justice," theologian Kelly Brown Douglas says.

by: George Yancy,; Truthout

A new federal holiday, Juneteenth, is celebrated in the heart of Harlem in New York City on June 18, 2021. President Joe Biden signed legislation making June 19 a new national holiday.

On Juneteenth, Let’s Celebrate Momentum of a Growing Racial Justice Movement

by: Nicholas Powers,; Truthout

A mural of George Floyd painted downtown to memorialize the life of George Floyd is shown on the anniversary of his death on May 25, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Woman Who Recorded George Floyd’s Murder Receives Honorary Pulitzer Prize

by: Brett Wilkins,; Common Dreams

New Documentary Chronicles Historic Young Lords’ Occupation of Bronx Hospital

by: Amy Goodman &; Juan González,; Democracy Now!

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GOP Rejects Green Infrastructure Funding in Face of Historic Drought and Heat

Many western states are seeing record temperatures, drought and water shortages.

by: Amy Goodman &; Juan González,; Democracy Now!

Rand Paul Sows Confusion by Wrongly Implying COVID Survivors Don’t Need Vaccine

by: Victoria Knight,; Kaiser Health News

Protesters with the Sunrise Movement march against slow action on infrastructure legislation, job creation and addressing climate change in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2021.

Sunrise Movement’s 400-Mile Climate March Ends With Arrests at Ted Cruz’s House

by: Jessica Corbett,; Common Dreams

Trump Complained COVID Testing Would Lose Him the Election, New Book Says

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

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An intensive care medical staffer, protected by PPE, tends to a patient infected with COVID-19 at Municipal Hospital of Parelheiros on June 18, 2021, in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Throughout the Pandemic, Some Hospitals Still Sued Patients Over Medical Debt

A new study says that most of the hospitals doling out lawsuits, liens and garnishments are registered nonprofits.

by: Jenny Deam,; ProPublica

A worker prepares amazon packages in a warehouse

Coalition Demands Federal Ban on Amazon’s Punitive Worker Surveillance

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont speaks at SiriusXM Studios on December 20, 2019, in New York City.

Fighting Inequality in One of the Nation’s Most Unequal States

by: Puya Gerami,; Inequality.org

President Joe Biden holds a semiconductor during his remarks before signing an executive order on the economy in the State Dining Room of the White House on February 24, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

K Street Sets Sights on New Semiconductor Policy Amid Global Shortage

by: Alyce McFadden,; Center for Responsive Politics

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