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Omicron Spike Is Straining Hospitals as Health Care Workers Leave the Profession
The staffing shortage has added to the strains of increasing hospitalizations due to COVID-19.
WHO Says Omicron Variant Is Not “Mild” as New COVID Wave Overwhelms Hospitals
The extraordinary volume of cases is filling up emergency rooms nationwide and exhausting health care workers.
GOP Attack on “Election Fraud” Is Really an Attack on Black Voters
Trump's false claims about voter fraud prompted a wave of racist assaults on voting rights, says author Carol Anderson.
Far Right Organizing Has Shifted to the Local Level, Making It Harder to Track
Thursday marks one year since a violent mob of thousands of Trump supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol.
Immigrants Held in ICE Jails at Risk Amid New Omicron Surge
More than 22,000 people being held in jails run by ICE face COVID with no option for social distancing.
Winter Wildfire Fueled by Climate Crisis Destroys 1,000 Homes in Colorado
The fire comes after a year of drought across the western U.S. and an unusually warm December.
Chomsky: Rising Anti-Science Rhetoric Feeds the Pandemic and Climate Crisis
Anti-science skepticism is prolonging the pandemic and sending life over a dangerous precipice of the climate emergency.
Arundhati Roy Talks Media, Authoritarianism in India and Challenging US Wars
The acclaimed author describes how we're caught between a corporate media and an even more corporate social media.
Angela Davis Speaks on Abolition, Justice for Palestine and Critical Race Theory
We are witnessing a profound clash between forces of the past and forces of the future, says Davis.
Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) Speaks on Apartheid, Palestine, Climate Crisis and More
The anti-apartheid icon was a leading voice for human rights and peace around the world.