‘Go Big, and Stay Big’: Economists Call for $3 Trillion Covid Relief Package to...
To forestall the nation's ongoing plunge into financial devastation as some crucial relief programs expire and others are recklessly terminated by the Trump administration, economists are calling for a $3 trillion debt-financed coronavirus stimulus...
As Retail Giants Enjoy Soaring Profits, Workers Demand Hazard Pay Amid Soaring Pandemic
As the holiday shopping rush begins, organized frontline retail workers this week are demanding a $5-per-hour hazard pay increase and better protections for the duration of the pandemic—demanding that major corporations use their record profits...
‘Putting their lives at risk’: Coalition urges farmworkers be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine
The Desert Sun reports that as essential workers, farmworkers will likely have earlier access than most of the public to the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available for distribution. However, a coalition of California farmworker and health...
Vaccine Access Advocates Cautiously Optimistic As G20 Summit Ends With Pledge to ‘Spare No...
World leaders expressed cautious optimism about widespread coronavirus vaccine access as the virtual G20 summit wrapped up with a final statement from the world's 20 largest economies, expressing that the countries would make sure...
Watch Fauci get brutally honest about the COVID-19 vaccine and potential herd immunity in...
As the nation continues to face the novel coronavirus pandemic, we have lost 250,000 Americans. Among survivors, some live with long-term effects of the virus that we’re only beginning to understand. While no one is...
Rittenhouse out on bail as right-wing fans raise millions, while innocent Black men wither...
The headline was jarring: “Black Man Who Spent 25 Years Incarcerated for a Murder He Didn’t Commit Has Been Exonerated,” The Root’s homepage shouted at me. The story of 62-year-old Jaythan Kendrick, who was arrested...
Masks work: Show this to the mask skeptic in your life
It’s hard to imagine, but on the same day that America logged over 200,000 cases of COVID-19 for the first time, with record levels of hospitalization in two dozen states, and levels of death reaching...
‘A Disgrace’: Trump’s DOJ Schedules Three More Federal Executions in Days Before Anti-Death Penalty...
Two months before President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office and halt the use of the federal death penalty, President Donald Trump's Justice Department on Friday evening announced it plans to execute three...
DOJ kicked off the docket in E. Jean Carroll’s case against Trump!
Ladies and gentlemen, great news! U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a 1-page order yesterday making it perfectly clear that the DOJ has no business being the President’s personal legal representative in E. Jean...
Brian Williams breaks sarcasm meter over suggestion that vaccine should be named after Trump
So yesterday, Geraldo Rivera, whose career has run the gamut from dreadfully embarrassing to off-the-charts mortifying, had a great idea. Let’s name the vaccine after Donald Trump, because, well … we want the baby-man to stop pouting.
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