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'Shameful': Millionaire Senators Vote Against Popular Minimum Wage Raise That Would Lift Millions Out of Poverty

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), worth more than $10 million, was one of eight Democrats to vote against including a federal minimum wage increase in the Senate's coronavirus relief package. (Photo: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post/AFP via Getty Images)

'It Has to Go': The Demand to End Filibuster Intensifies in US Senate

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

"The filibuster didn't come from the Constitution, or from our founders," argued Sen. Tina Smith, one of a growing number of Democrats now coming out against the arcane procdure.

Award-Winning Playwright, Longtime Common Dreams Contributor Bill C. Davis Dies at 69

Common Dreams staff

Playwright Bill C. Davis, in 2015, attends the Paris premiere of his play "Avow." (Photo: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images)

'Good Jobs for All': Sunrise Movement Launches Campaign to Fight Climate Crisis With Work Guarantee

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Roger Garbey and Andres Hernandez install a solar panel system on the roof of a home on January 23, 2018 in Palmetto Bay, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"With so much work to do building a better society that works for all of us,...

'We Need to Make Sure It's Done Right': Peace Advocates Welcome Biden Move to Limit War Powers

Here Are the 8 Democrats Who Just Joined GOP to Vote Down Sanders' $15 Minimum Wage Amendment

House Progressives Urged to 'Wield Their Power' to Fight Senate Sabotage of Covid-19 Relief Bill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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."