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Andrew Cuomo's Power Grab Is Off Camera
The failure of the White House to respond to the Coronavirus pandemic has given Andrew Cuomo an unlikely turn in the spotlight. Cuomo, for his part, has taken the opportunity and run with it: hosting daily news briefings and running comedy routines with his younger...
Scalia Is OSHA's Fox In The Henhouse
Thousands of workers across America begged the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to investigate when their employers failed to take steps to protect them from COVID-19. They reported a lack of face masks, gloves, soap and hand sanitizer. They warned...
The Path From Pandemic To A Green New World
It feels like everything is on the line right now for our country, our planet, and for humanity. We have a global pandemic in the middle of a climate emergency. The corporate-conservative Radical Right has taken over country after country. Inequality and inequity are...
America's Backbone Under COVID-19: Blue-Collar Workers
At the start of each shift, Eric Jarvis takes a handful of anti-bacterial wipes and sanitizes the equipment he uses at the Packaging Corp. of America mill in Valdosta, Ga. He worries about getting the coronavirus every time he leaves for work, but knows the nation...
Homeschool Entrepreneurs Love COVID-19
In the early days of the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., when the number of known cases was barely cresting 1,000, advocates for homeschooling were greeting news of the outbreak as an opportunity to promote their cause. “While the virus has caused illness and...
The EPA Just Gave Polluters A License To Kill
Hear Lois Gibbs and other environmental activists talk about the EPA's rollback of environmental enforcement on People's Action Live. TOTAL refinery, Port Arthur, Texas. Photo credit: Hilton Kelley, CIDAInc.org / cc Our government just told polluters they are free to...
Trump's Reelection Strategy: Pit Workers Against Democrats
Photo credit: James Barragan / Facebook / cc The politics of the pandemic is about to get nasty and divisive. And Trump thrives on the politics of nastiness and division. Chants of “lock her up” will likely be replaced by chants of “open it up.” And unless Democrats...
Sanders Suspends, Fight Goes On
Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for president, but the fight is just getting started. Senator Sanders and the movements surrounding his campaign have brought to fore an agenda that has inspired tens of millions, on its way to creating a new common sense about...
What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know About Hospital Emergency Rooms
Doctor Ming Lin is the first emergency room doctor to be fired for going public with his concerns about poor hospital emergency room safety practices and shortages of medical supplies and protective gear for health workers. He won’t be the last. Like many hospitals in...
Judges Will Increasingly Decide How 2020 Elections Are Run
Photo credit: Wisconsin National Guard / Spc. Emma Anderson The jaw-dropping conclusion of a federal court hearing on April 1 about Wisconsin’s statewide elections on April 7 was no April Fools’ joke. U.S. District Judge William Conley said the state’s Democratic...
