“President Biden should forswear future U.S. production and use of anti-personnel landmines and fulfill the previous U.S. goal of eliminating this inherently indiscriminate weapon.” As a benchmark report on worldwide landmine casualties showed a 21% increase in deaths and injuries in 2020, one of the paper’s editors on Wednesday renewed calls for the Biden administration to […]
“In any other workplace, a person would be fired immediately for sharing content threatening violence and murdering a coworker. There should be no difference in Congress.” As U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday urged investigations into Rep. Paul Gosar’s tweeting of an animated video that depicts him murdering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a leading gender justice […]
“Now is the time for leaders in all walks of life—for citizens of all political backgrounds and persuasions—to come to the aid of the republic.” Warning that the Republican Party—which “remains under the sway” of former President Donald Trump—poses a “serious danger” to U.S. democracy, a group of writers, academics, and political activists spanning the ideological […]
The right-wing West Virginia Democrat and fossil fuel investor has previously confessed his intent to quash his own party’s sweeping $3.5 trillion Build Back Better package. Underscoring the yawning chasm between progressives’ demands for a $3.5 trillion Build Back Better package and right-wing Democrats’ refusal to accept such spending, U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders wrangled over the bill’s […]