Before COVID-19, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority served 8 million people daily. Since COVID-19, it’s losing $200 million per week and suddenly has a predicted deficit of $16 billion over four years …
One struggle we can learn from was the struggle of coal miners that led to the “Battle of Blair Mountain” almost a 100 years ago in West Virginia …
The inhumane conditions facing those locked in prisons across the U.S. today are not new …
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about herd immunity in relation to COVID-19. But what is herd immunity, and what does it mean in relation to COVID-19? …
New York City was the first place where COVID reached critical proportions in the U.S. …
Following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, tens of thousands of people took to the streets around the country to protest this latest violence at the hands of the police …
The Milwaukee Bucks shocked the sports world on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 26, after the players decided to boycott Game 5 …
The made-for-TV conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties were held to convince us to vote for them. …
A Tennessee a new law could strip protesters of their right to vote. …
As numbers of new U.S. infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to remain high, as U.S schools reopen and workers are called back into work, and as second waves of infection have begun to show up internationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly changed its COVID-19 guidelines and is recommending less testing in the U.S. …
During the Spring of 2020, an estimated 5.4 million people who lost their jobs, also lost their health insurance. …
The latest coronavirus “cure”? The highly toxic compound oleandrin, found in the poisonous plant, oleander. …
This week the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for another treatment for patients with COVID-19. This treatment relies on blood transfusions from patients who’ve recovered from the virus, and thus are would have antibodies present in their blood. …
Postal workers in Tacoma Washington defied their top management last week by reconnecting the sorting machines post office bosses had ordered shut down …
Economist Jack Rasmus provides a clear analysis of the current economic situation and what the prospects are in the near future. …
Trump’s former senior advisor Steve Bannon was charged with fraud for pocketing donations to a campaign to help build more wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. …
As tens of millions find their financial situation more desperate by the day, and millions of small businesses are squeezed into failure, the big tech companies are booming! …
Trump’s recent attacks on the USPS are not the only ones that have happened. The Postal Service has been under attack for decades. …
Women in the U.S. have had the right to vote for a century, but they still suffer from inequality today. …
At the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden began his nomination acceptance speech with a quote from the civil rights activist Ella Baker: “Give people light and they will find a way.” …
Recently, the Trump administration announced a new development in U.S. pharmaceuticals. The Kodak Film Company is expected to be given a $765 million loan to help launch a new wing of the company producing generic pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients. …
A desperate Trump has decided to speed up the attacks on the U.S. Postal Service, hoping to significantly suppress mail-in voting. …
On August 17, the Trump administration opened up the coastal plane of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling …
A Gallup poll recently found that 35% of Americans wouldn’t get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available right now, at no cost to them …
Just days after a massive explosion in Beirut, Baltimore residents were shaken by an explosion that killed two, injured seven, and flattened three rowhomes …
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
For months, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have taken turns stalling the passage of any new round of relief for unemployed workers …
This public health crisis has provided a rationale for employers to strengthen their hand against workers …
The CDC now recommends looking at symptoms instead of test results to decide when employees can return to work …
Millions are left vulnerable to eviction during a time when shelter is an even more important necessity …
Public transit, like the rest of our society is in an extraordinary crisis …
John Lewis was a civil rights leader and activist that fought to end racial segregation in the United States …
Joe Biden recently announced his policy proposals for addressing climate change. So what does this supposedly revolutionary plan entail? …
In West Virginia, there is only one abortion care clinic to serve the population of the entire state …
For nearly ninety years, Native Americans have protested that a racist slur was the name and mascot of the Washington, D.C. NFL team …
We’re only halfway through the year and 2020 is already expected to break global temperature records. …
At the height of the recent Black Lives Matter protests, the Supreme Court ruled that doctors performing abortions did not have to have admitting rights at a nearby hospital …
In Portland, Trump has taken advantage of ongoing demonstrations against police brutality to send in officers from the Department of Homeland Security …
On Monday, July 13, with coronavirus cases in California rising steeply, Governor Gavin Newsom reintroduced some restrictions on the reopening …
On July 10, Trump’s administration announced that international students had the option of either taking in-person classes or losing their student visa …
At Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, a 30-year-old man who attended a so-called “COVID party” died after being infected with the virus …
5.4 million people lost health insurance coverage in the U.S. during the pandemic between February and May …
It was recently announced that the Dakota Access Pipeline, the largest oil pipeline out of North Dakota, will be shut down, as well as the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. …
The administration is “of the belief that people will get over it or if we stop highlighting it…the public will learn to accept 50,000 to 100,000 new cases a day” …
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of oil and gas companies on Monday when they approved fast-track permitting for pipeline construction …
ICE has announced that they will deport any immigrant on a student visa in the US who is enrolled only in online classes this fall …
Workers at a Whole Foods in MA staged a walkout on July 1 to protest management’s decision to not allow employees to wear Black Lives Matter masks …
July 4, the United States celebrates Independence Day. But what does that mean? And independence for whom? …
people across the country are focusing their anger on tearing down and demanding the removal of monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy …
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