Pressure from progressive advocacy groups and lawmakers bore fruit on Wednesday when the U.S. Postal Service announced that it would be making 40% of its…
Voters in the United States overwhelmingly support Democratic proposals to expand Social Security for all recipients to cover higher costs of living and…
The Biden administration came under fire this week after paving the way for an oil railway that its own projections suggest would increase planet-heating pollution…
“The Supreme Court doesn’t get the final say on abortion”
The president of far-right National Rally, meanwhile, celebrated a “historic breakthrough” as Le Pen’s xenophobic party won a record 89 seats
“If all these plans materialize, they will either end up as massive stranded assets or they’ll lock the world into irreversible warming.”
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Medicare “is under threat today from the constant efforts of private insurance companies and for-profit investors who want to privatize it and turn it into yet another shameful opportunity to make money”
“It’s been 54 years since the sanitation worker’s march,” said Bishop William J. Barber II, “and right here in Memphis they still don’t have union rights.”
“I can no longer work for a company that ignores all the alarms and dismisses the risks of climate change and ecological collapse.”
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