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Rep. Bennie Thompson

Don’t Sleep on the January 6 Committee Don’t Sleep on the January 6 Committee

I’d like it to be more public and to have more hearings. But it’s finding devastating evidence that Trump and friends broke the law.

Feb 3, 2022 / Joan Walsh

Hang-Ups

Hang-Ups Hang-Ups

Supreme injustice.

Feb 3, 2022 / OppArt / Harry Campbell

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Getting Personal About Climate Change Made Me a Better Reporter Getting Personal About Climate Change Made Me a Better Reporter

Journalists need to start demanding solutions and stop worrying about bad-faith critics.

Feb 3, 2022 / Sammy Roth

Close up of a Male Health care worker wearing protective equipment, mask, gown and gloves, sitting in a chair beside a closed hospital room looking exhausted.

Why Wishful Thinking on Covid Remains As Dangerous as Ever Why Wishful Thinking on Covid Remains As Dangerous as Ever

Pundits urging us to treat Covid “like the flu” or pushing “the urgency of normal” are just variations of the siren song of surrender to needless death and preventable disease.

Feb 3, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

It’s Boris’s Party and Apparently He Can Booze if He Wants To

It’s Boris’s Party and Apparently He Can Booze if He Wants To It’s Boris’s Party and Apparently He Can Booze if He Wants To

The interim report into British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s flagrant disregard of his own lockdown rules was devastating. But that doesn’t mean he’ll be forced out of office. At...

Feb 3, 2022 / Gary Younge

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In This Latest Covid Surge, Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet Without Sick Leave In This Latest Covid Surge, Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet Without Sick Leave

With the country in the throes of the deadliest Covid wave yet, American workers are back to having no federally mandated paid sick leave.

Feb 3, 2022 / Bryce Covert

The Police State Is Failing Officers Too

The Police State Is Failing Officers Too The Police State Is Failing Officers Too

Alternatives to policing are critical to the health and safety of both overpoliced people, historically and predominantly Black and brown, and the police themselves.

Feb 3, 2022 / Scott Hechinger

The 2 Pandemics Ravaging America

The 2 Pandemics Ravaging America The 2 Pandemics Ravaging America

They’re both taking our country apart at the seams.

Feb 3, 2022 / Tom Engelhardt

In Search of Self-Destruction on an Oil Rig

In Search of Self-Destruction on an Oil Rig In Search of Self-Destruction on an Oil Rig

Tabitha Lasley’s Sea State is an intimate and blistering memoir of a writer’s life amidst the UK’s offshore natural gas industry.

Feb 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman

A man wearing a black face mask in a crowd.

Will the Gates Foundation’s Board Ever Hold Bill Accountable? Will the Gates Foundation’s Board Ever Hold Bill Accountable?

Though described as “strong independent voices,” the new board members all have financial ties to the Gates Foundation.

Feb 2, 2022 / Tim Schwab

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