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'They Should Be Ashamed': With Jobless Benefits to Expire in 9 Days, Republicans Pull Out All Stops to Obstruct Relief Bill

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) speaks at a press conference on school reopening during Covid-19 at U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

'Stop Nickel and Diming the American People': Anger Grows as Dems Move to Deny Relief Checks to 17 Million

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) talks with reporters at the end of the third day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021.

"While you're quibbling over who you want to exclude, people are suffering. SEND THE CHECKS."

Bernie Sanders Slams Ron Johnson After Republican Forces Reading of 628-Page Coronavirus Relief Bill on Senate Floor

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing for Neera Tanden, nominee for director of the Office and Management and Budget (OMB), on February 9, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Ting Shen/Getty Images)

"Good thing we have time during a national emergency to do this," quipped the...

'We Need to Remain Vigilant': Health Experts Warn Rollback of Covid Restrictions Threatens Life-Saving Gains

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

"The next three months are pivotal," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. "I'm asking you to reach deeply to protect our nation's health, and to protect your loved ones." (Photo: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

"We must not relinquish the ground we've gained," said Dr. Barbara Alexander,...

FBI Urged to Probe Corrupt Vaccine Favoritism by Florida's GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis

'Outrageous,' Says Sanders After Corporate Lobby Calls Sharing Vaccine Recipe With World's Poor 'Misguided'

'No One Is Above the Law': Rashida Tlaib Rips Biden Admin's Opposition to ICC War Crimes Probe of Israel

As House Passes For the People Act Without One GOP Vote, Progressives Warn Bill Is 'Dead' If Filibuster Remains

GOP Bill That 'Does Nothing But Criminalize Peaceful Protest' Advances in Florida Legislature

GOP Senators Opposed to Becerra for HHS Have Taken Nearly $10 Million From Big Pharma: Analysis

Analysis Finds Jan. 6 Insurrectionist Mob Was 'Hodgepodge' of Unaffiliated Right-Wing Extremists

'Utterly Damning' Docs Reveal Meatpacking Industry Fought Feeble Covid-19 Safeguards Under Trump

In Bid to Force SCOTUS Review, Arkansas Lawmakers Pass 'Plainly Unconstitutional' Near-Total Ban on Abortion

After Airstrikes in Syria, Senators Introduce Resolution to Repeal Some Presidential War Powers

AOC Warns Biden That Giving Relief Checks to Fewer People Than Trump Would Be Nonsensical 'Own-Goal'

Wolf Slaughter in Wisconsin Spurs Call for Biden to Reinstate Federal Protection for Iconic Species

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Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars

Richard Eskow

Ma Bell with Mind Control: Liberalism, Radicalism, and the Evolving Face of Censorship

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Why Biden Is Dead Wrong on the ICC and Occupied Palestine

Sandra Steingraber

How Austerity Killed the Center for Climate Justice: A Farewell to Ithaca College

Michael Winship

Same Old, Same Old from the Mouth That Roared

Lorah Steichen

The Only Good "National Security" Approach to Climate Change Is to Make the Planet Itself Safer—for Everyone Who Lives on It

Robert C. Koehler

The US War Machine Doesn't Want Us to Take War Personally

Mike Lofgren

Wait, Don't Tell Me: The Capitol Riot Was Yet Another "Intelligence Failure"

Helen Jaccard

Marshall Islanders Remember "Castle Bravo" Nuclear Bomb with Honolulu Veterans and Supporters

Lynn Parramore

Meet the "New Koch Brothers"–the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal

Ellen Brown

Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?

William Astore

Rewarding Failure: Why Pentagon Weapons Programs Rarely Get Canceled Despite Major Problems

Domenica Ghanem

Biden Is Bending Rules to Drop Bombs But Not to Raise Wages—That’s a Mistake

Rev. John Dear

My Long-Lost Conversation With John Lewis on His Vision of Nonviolence

Molly Scott Cato

The Joy of Tax: An Economy for the Common Good

Andy Rowell

John Kerry Tells Big Oil to Stop Resisting Energy Transition or "You’re Going to End up on the Wrong Side of This Battle."

Jim Hightower

'Pathetic and Disgraceful': The GOP's Shameful War on Voters

Michael Eisner, Jack Steele

With Biden Refusing to Act, It's Time to Take Mohammed bin Salman to Court

Danny Sjursen

Biden Is Following a Failed Blueprint for Forever War

Madeleine Johnsson

To Restore American Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultra-Wealthy

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Banksy Does Oscar Wilde

Banksy's newest, a two-fer Oscar Wilde tribute and call for prison reform, shows a prisoner climbing down bedsheets ending in a typewriter from Reading Gaol, known for housing Wilde during his two years' hard labor for "gross indecency" - being gay. Video juxtaposes Banky creating it with TV artist Bob Ross burbling about freedom; both are haunted by Wilde's final searing poem about the cruelty and bleakness of life behind bars: "Something was dead in each of us/and what was dead was hope."