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Stamp Purchases, Congressional Action Urged as Trump Threatens Postal Service
There is no vote-by-mail if there is no postal service.
Trump Says His “Authority Is Total.” In Response, Governors Are Rebelling.
Do not listen to the president.
Islamophobia Has No Place in the Fight Against COVID-19
We must reject both overt and subtle messaging linking COVID-19 to Islam.
HIV Prison Activists Are Leading a Freedom Movement in the Face of COVID-19
People who have long organized against HIV in prisons are demanding the release of incarcerated people amid COVID-19.
Trump Asserts He Alone Has Authority to Reopen Economy — Experts Say Otherwise
Experts argue Trump's reasonings don't make sense, since it was governors, not he, who closed things down.
Trump’s EPA Is Unleashing the Pollution That Makes Us Vulnerable to COVID-19
The suspension of air pollution regulations threatens to further harm communities struggling to cope with the pandemic.
Minimum-Wage Workers Are Dying to Keep Everyone Else Alive. They Deserve More.
Low-wage workers are standing between our society and calamity. They deserve health care and a living wage now.
Pandemic Shutdown Separates Parents From Their Children in the Foster System
Without emergency changes to foster care law during the COVID-19 crisis, parents stand to lose their kids.
Trump Shared a Tweet Urging Fauci’s Firing. Will Fauci Be Axed as a Scapegoat?
The tweet wrongly suggested Fauci said all of the same things the president was saying at the end of February.
Trump Will Risk Lives If He Reopens Economy at the End of the Month
Trump chose to do nothing for weeks -- now we're in a crisis with thousands of deaths and no end in sight.