Sarah Lazare
Sarah Lazare is web editor at In These Times. She comes from a background in independent journalism for publications including The Intercept, Common Dreams, The Nation, and Tom Dispatch. She tweets at @sarahlazare.
Articles by this author
 |
Views Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Biden Must Reject Trump's WTO Policy That Could Lead to "Vaccine Apartheid" in Global South President-elect Joe Biden has repeatedly pledged that, in contrast to President Trump, his administration will act swiftly and effectively to curb the Covid- 19 pandemic. But so far, the incoming president has said nothing about whether he will reverse a key Trump administration action at the World... Read more |
 |
Views Friday, December 18, 2020 Pfizer Helped Create the Global Patent Rules. Now It's Using Them to Undercut Access to the Covid Vaccine. The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, whose Covid- 19 vaccine with German partner BioNTech was approved December 11 for emergency use in the United States, has emerged as a vocal opponent of a global effort to ensure poor countries are able to access the vaccine. In October, India and... Read more |
 |
Views Wednesday, December 09, 2020 Biden’s Defense Secretary Pick Shows the Revolving Door for Military Contractors Remains President-elect Joe Biden has tapped retired Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III for the powerful role of defense secretary, news outlets revealed December 7. Speculation over who Biden would pick had been brewing for weeks. All three top contenders for the position — Obama administration... Read more |
 |
Views Friday, December 04, 2020 Congress Is Deadlocked on Covid Relief But Came Together to Fund the Pentagon for $740 Billion The annual approval of the gargantuan U.S. military budget is one of the most reliable rituals in Congress. It is so ordinary and overwhelmingly bipartisan, it’s barely considered newsworthy, and few outlets follow the details of exactly how much the government is allo... Read more |
 |
Views Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Biden's Hawkish Foreign Policy Picks Are a Very Bad Sign There was no reason to think that a Biden administration would be to the left of the Obama administration when it comes to foreign policy. Biden comes with a long political career of supporting the wars of the United States and its allies, from the 2003 invasion of Iraq to Israel’s... Read more |
 |
Views Wednesday, September 16, 2020 "Colonizing the Atmosphere": How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis The climate disaster fueling unprecedented fires across the western United States, threatening to swallow the Marshall Islands into the ocean, and unleashing perennial hunger crises on South Sudan is a global catastrophe. But the global responsibility is not born equally... Read more |
 |
Views Sunday, June 28, 2020 First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You're Praised for Sending in Aid. The United Nations describes itself in its charter as an international moral authority created to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." But activists who are trying to end the U.S. war on Yemen say that, in a dark twist on this mission, the international body is withholding... Read more |
 |
Views Thursday, May 07, 2020 Covid-19 Is a Reason To Start the Green New Deal Now Our political leaders, Republican and Democrat, are leaving tens of millions of people in free fall. Instead of a guaranteed income and universal, single-payer healthcare, we are offered paltry, one-time checks and unemployment payments (for those who qualify—and many don’t, including all... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Buttigieg and Centrist Dems Want a Military Response to Climate Change. That’s Dangerous. Mayor Pete Buttigieg says that if he were elected president, he would use the Department of Defense to fight climate change by creating “a senior climate security role in the Secretary of Defense’s office responsible for managing climate security risks” and boosting the Pentagon’s budget to “allow... Read more |
 |
Views Monday, January 06, 2020 To Stop Trump’s War with Iran, We Must Also Confront the Democrats Who Laid the Groundwork Since President Trump took office in 2017, the leadership of the Democratic Party has overwhelmingly supported the precursors to today’s dangerous U.S. escalation towards Iran: sanctions, proxy battles and a bloated military budget. Yet, now that we stand on the brink of a possible U.S. war of... Read more |