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Team Trump Won’t Let a Pandemic Get in the Way of Its Far Right Agenda
Thousands are dying but the administration is pushing regulatory rollbacks and new “emergency powers.”
Trump Is Preparing the Ground for a Totalitarian Dictatorship
We can beat his lies if we get angry and stay angry.
Sanders Calls for Boldest Legislation in Modern History to Halt COVID-19 Crisis
Sen. Bernie Sanders released his demands for six key priorities that he said must be included in the next relief bill.
Trump Endangers Lives by Feuding With Governors and Withholding Health Insurance
It’s unconscionable behavior, but it’s all that this empty suit of a president seems to know how to do.
Congress Must Reject Weakened Medicaid Protections in Next COVID-19 Bill
The pandemic hasn’t stopped some state policymakers from attempting to push harmful changes.
Trump Is Using the COVID-19 Pandemic to Wage a Partisan Civil War
Trump is ignoring blue-state Democrats who need supplies while making promises to GOP governors in swing states.
Neoliberal Austerity and Private Health Care Has Worsened US Pandemic
Gasping for air, gasping for care. What does global health justice look like?
Limiting US COVID-19 Deaths to 100,000 Is Trump’s Idea of Doing a “Good Job”
Trump repeatedly downplayed the threat of a pandemic over the last month.
Undemocratic Elections Have Citizens Reinventing Self-Governance Worldwide
Citizens are creating innovative models of self-governance to counter the failures of representative democracy.
Tom Perez Put Corporate Lobbyists in Charge of the DNC’s Budget
Headed into a historically expensive election, there remains no independent oversight of the DNC chair’s expenditures.