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 ...
“Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his nation’s inoculation is safe for a mass audience, despite the fact that it has not yet finished its final round of testing.” As the world races to develop ...
“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 ...
The BBC unveiled the first trailer for Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove” — on the eve of the 50th anniversary of London’s Mangrove protest, when black people demonstrated against police harassment. On August 9, 1970, 150 protesters ...
“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 ...
“Elliott Abrams has made a career of lying and committing criminal acts that have led to the death and suffering of innocent people from Guatemala to Iraq.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Following the resignation ...
“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 ...
Geopolitical contests between the U.S. and China hinge on technology more than the ability to deploy a gunboat somewhere; Taiwan could resemble a prototype for a tech proxy war. The media likes to dabble in ...
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 ...
“It ought to be the people’s vaccine, not a new taxpayer burden.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Consumer advocates warned Wednesday that pharmaceutical giant Moderna is “taking taxpayers for a ride” after the company announced ...
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 ...
“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 ...
A new Netflix docuseries, “Immigration Nation,” explores the operations behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Trump administration. Directed by Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, the six-part series was filmed entirely during ...
“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 ...
If we think inequality was bad before Covid-19, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. (Common Dreams) Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, ...
Even as the government attempts to frame the debate over the banning of Chinese companies like TikTok and Huawei over privacy concerns, it continues to try to ban the encryption of data and communications at home. ...
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 legal battles between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Trump administration is the subject of a new documentary, The Fight. The legal battles between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Trump administration ...
“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 ...
A consortium of the most powerful tech players like IBM, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up with hospital networks with links to the Vatican and tech lobbying groups to shape the conversation about the future ...
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 ...
The pandemic makes one thing clear: We must change our relationship with wildlife or suffer the consequences. The term “zoonotic disease” wasn’t a hot topic of conversation before the novel coronavirus started spreading across the ...
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 ...