The Climate Movement Must Learn from Larry Kramer’s Fearless Truth Telling
Margaret Klein Salamon
An ACT UP protest outside the FDA headquarters in Rockville, Maryland in 1988. (Photo: Peter Ansin/Getty Images)
Margaret Klein Salamon
An ACT UP protest outside the FDA headquarters in Rockville, Maryland in 1988. (Photo: Peter Ansin/Getty Images)
Chris Hedges
"The entrenched racism in America has always meant that poor people of color are the first cast aside in society and disproportionately suffer from the most brutal forms of social control meted out by the police and the prison system," writes Hedges. "But there will not be, as Martin Luther King pointed out, racial justice until there is economic justice. And there will not be economic justice until we wrest power back from the hands of our corporate masters." (Cartoon: 'Blind Rage'/Mr. Читать дальше...
Jeanne Mirer, Jerry Wallingford
We must insist that all eligible voters have ready access to cast a ballot in the crucial upcoming 2020 general election. (Image: Craig Sunter/flickr/cc with overlay)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The White House ignored the threat of Covid-19 until it was too late to stop it, left states without the equipment to fight it, and didn't track its spread to contain it. Now they want to wave a magic wand and declare 'Mission Accomplished.'"
Julia Conley, staff writer
Three months into the coronavirus pandemic, which has now killed more than 116,000 Americans, people across the country are reporting lower levels of happiness than at any point in nearly 50 years, according to a new survey.