“The NCAA has failed generations of young men and women even when it comes to their most basic responsibility — keeping the athletes under their charge healthy and safe. The time has come for change.” ...
(Peace Data) On July 22, 2020, Twitter executives announced that the social media platform would suspend 7,000 accounts pushing the QAnon (Q) conspiracy. A spokesperson for the company stated that the move by the platform comes ...
The Anti-Money Laundering Act would expose the owners of shell companies now sits alone on a shelf in the US Senate while the Federal Reserve shrugs its shoulders in the face of blatant manipulation by ...
Republican John Kasich will enjoy a full speaker slot at the Democratic National Convention With the Vice President selected, the Democratic Party is gearing up for the Democratic National Convention. To the surprise and frustration ...
The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its Five Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to win back manufacturing that the U.S. and European ...
Revenge is as sweet to Trump as a race war. What could happen to America if Trump were to further, severely crash the U.S. economy the day after Joe Biden is announced as the winner ...
Nurses are losing lives and jobs while execs rake in million after million. (Common Dreams) How’s pandemic life been going for you? If you work in America’s healthcare industry, that depends. That totally depends. If ...
In a three-week period leading up to the VP announcement, Harris’s page was edited over 400 times, magnitudes more than her rivals. Yesterday, the Joe Biden campaign announced Senator Kamala Harris as the Democratic ticket’s ...
The U.S. imports everything from food to toilet paper, medical supplies to widgets. How one American state is changing that. “An incredible opportunity for domestic manufacturing.” That’s how Mercedes Gonzalez, a director at Global Purchasing ...
The conditions of isolation foster not only physical but also psychological violence, which can be even more devastating for the victims. (Common Dreams) One of the most neglected consequences of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 is ...
“Trump’s erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump’s trade policies during his first term have “failed to ...
“No citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding.” Lawyers for US President Donald Trump responded to legal pressure from Manhattan District ...
“He is working to dismantle a fundamental institution of our democracy. He needs to resign or be removed, now.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) On the heels of a “Friday Night Massacre” at the U.S. ...
The unrest and riots in Chicago took place early Monday morning After a heated confrontation with police over a Sunday afternoon officer-involved shooting, an uprising of riots and looting erupted early Monday morning. Chicago police ...
“America is in a dead sprint to authoritarianism. The man is pulling out all the stops to prevent the citizens of this country from holding a legitimate election in which he might face removal from ...
“Anything that’s going on social media that’s negative or alike without permission, photography, that’s video or anything, there will be consequences.” Autumn normally is a time for schools to welcome back students, but during the ...
The fact that the president and his supporters want us to tolerate hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths from the pandemic reveals their true nature. When President Donald Trump was challenged by Axios national political correspondent Jonathan ...
People have the right to know how CEOs and major corporations do on the “Hedonistic Index” of greed and power. (Common Dreams) The combination of greed and power often spin out of control and challenge ...
In the fight for racial justice, teachers have a heavy job, for schools are both microcosms of, and preparation for, society. Because teachers serve as significant adult figures in children’s lives, their interactions with students ...
“This push to open schools is guaranteed to fail.” Many of the states to have the first schools reopen in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic have faced multiple growing pains. The growing laundry ...
“The NRA’s influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets.” New York is taking on the National Rifle Association as Attorney General ...
The Food Industry Scorecard is the result of a year-long audit of the nation’s largest food companies to see what animal welfare promises they made, kept and broke. Like countless animal lovers, I have always ...
Cori Bush, activist and nurse, was the highlight of the results as she defeated a Missouri political dynasty in her Democratic primary. Two big Democratic victories are being held as a benchmark for the success ...
Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not attend the Democratic convention in Wisconsin. Schools and work have turned to virtual settings during the COVID-19 pandemic, so it should come as no surprise ...
In June the U.S. Department of Energy published the Report on the Status of the Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands. The report claims that the decades old nuclear waste dump in the Marshall Islands ...
“It is sadly predictable that Big Pharma responds to a global pandemic by trying to bring to market only those drugs that maximize its profits.” (By: Lisa Newcomb, Common Dreams) As Covid-19 cases and deaths ...
“I do not want to be an experiment.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The hashtag #DemandSafeSchools lit up Twitter on Monday as teachers and students in districts across the country took part in protests over ...
With signature-gathering deadlines for drug reform initiatives now having passed nearly everywhere, the picture of where voters will have a chance to vote on them in November becomes clearer—although not yet finalized because state officials ...
Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Ten days before this, the Chinese government had said—to great alarm—that ...
The use of force detailed in the report “is ultimately a symptom of the very issue that started these protests: unaccountable police violence.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) In a report titled “The World is ...
Meat companies’ evasive language about what is happening to animals during the COVID-19 crisis is part of a larger pattern that suppresses open debate about the ethical costs of food production in the U.S. Big ...
The president’s attack on the Nevada mail-in voting initiative elevates the state’s position as a strong predictor of the presidential victor, having only chosen two losers in over the past 100 years. President Donald Trump ...
“It was a hellhole long before COVID happened.” Prisoners at Georgia’s Ware State Prison rioted Sunday after reports of high tensions due to coronavirus cases and poor living conditions. Two staff members and three prisoners ...
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed us to conduct an experiment on how government assistance is good for people and the economy. When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans ...
“We are going very quickly. I do not believe that there will be vaccines so far ahead of us that we will have to depend on other countries to get us vaccine.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, ...
Microbes do not recognize borders. We are all safe only when everybody is safe. In a pandemic, to attack the only body we have for global cooperation endangers everyone. That is why the U.S. withdrawal ...
“You can’t have a contractor supervising government officials.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The White House on Friday awarded a record-breaking $2.1 billion contract for development of a Covid-19 vaccine, raising questions about a former ...
We must take these public health choices out of the hands of corporate executives and put corporations in their proper place: subservient to public welfare. (Common Dreams) Should constitutional rights be used to shield corporations ...
We should not fool ourselves: It could happen here. (Common Dreams) On Sept. 11, 1973, I was living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. That morning, one of my roommates, a Chilean ...
“Never in the history of the federal elections have we ever not held an election and we should go forward with our election.” With the US elections nearly three months away, President Donald Trump tweeted ...
Not only are deaths up, but the state’s positivity rate is pushing 20% as Tropical Storm Isaias approaches. On the same day 216 Floridians died from the coronavirus, officials announced they would close all state-run ...
“Mnuchin and the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service appear to be exploiting this public health pandemic to hold the Postal Service to unreasonable loan terms without even consulting Congress.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. That inherent tendency is only occasionally stopped or reversed when masses of people rise up against it. That happened, for example, ...
The federal moratorium on evictions expired this week, leaving 12 million renters at risk of losing their homes, and much as they did with healthcare, Democrats are offering little more than token non-solutions. (By: Alan ...
“Just how twisted is the Senate GOP coronavirus bill you ask? It includes $686 million for new F-35 fighter jets.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In a floor speech late Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch ...
Three weeks away from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) a group of delegates are poised to withhold support for Biden as the presidential nominee unless the party changes the platform to include Medicare for All ...
“It is unconscionable for the Trump administration to circumvent the rulings of a federal court in order to once again thrust into uncertainty the families and communities who rely on DACA to stay together and ...
What if we ignored corporations and their billionaire CEOs and owners altogether, gave them nothing, and instead directed all our efforts to providing unemployment and other benefits to individual human beings? (Common Dreams) It should ...
Solution: slash the prices and kill the ads. (Common Dreams) Prescription drugs have long provided two bad examples of American exceptionalism. They cost three-to-four times more than anywhere else, and we’re one of only two countries in the ...
$1,200 stimulus checks, cuts to unemployment benefits, no eviction moratorium, and a $1.75 billion FBI Building? Yesterday, the GOP announced their latest coronavirus stimulus package proposal, the HEALS Act, a $1 trillion bill in response ...
