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Farmers Are Plagued by Debt and Climate Crisis. Trump Has Made Things Worse.
Experts suggest that the U.S. must urgently look inward to address its own climate-related food security issues.
Sen. Thom Tillis Embraces QAnon’s Dangerous COVID Conspiracy Theory
Tillis also appeared to embrace the idea of “herd immunity,” a discredited practice many have likened to eugenics.
Trump’s Vaccine Czar Refuses to Divest From Company Developing COVID Vaccine
Moncef Slaoui owns $10 million in stock of a company working with his team to develop a vaccine.
Trump Threatens to Block Stricter COVID-19 Vaccine Standards
Trump claimed that he trusts for-profit pharmaceutical corporations to conduct adequate safety testing.
Anthony Fauci Slams Sen. Rand Paul: You Are Not Listening
The nation's top infectious diseases expert corrected the senator’s false claims about herd immunity.
Colleges Reopening Fueled 3,000 COVID Cases a Day, Researchers Say
The study almost certainly did not capture the full extent of the campus-linked surge.
Voters Want to Use Climate Change Policies to Rebuild the Economy After COVID
A new poll shows that voters want job training for workers who left the fossil fuel industry as well as a carbon tax.
Why the Fascists Don’t Want Us to Grieve
Trump knows the full expression of our collective grief would be the end of his presidency.
Trump Wrongly Asserts “Virtually Nobody” Young Is Harmed by COVID
Hundreds of thousands of children under the age of 18 have been diagnosed with the disease.
Meatpacking Industry Drafted an Executive Order to Keep Plants Open Amid COVID
The draft was submitted a week before Trump’s executive order, which bore striking similarities.