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SHARE        Tuesday, July 7, 2020
"They Don't Care About Our Health": Hunger Striker at Otay Mesa ICE Jail Speaks Out as COVID Spreads conditions at the for-profit jail, run by private prison company CoreCivic, which has seen a mass outbreak of COVID-19, leading to at least 167 infections and one death.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 29, 2020
Massive Case of Denial: COVID Surges in US, Tops 10M Globally, as Pence Touts "Remarkable Progress" As coronavirus cases top 10 million worldwide and spikes are being reported in 36 states, Vice President Mike Pence has touted "truly remarkable progress" on the pandemic.

SHARE        Wednesday, June 17, 2020
"Disruptor on Road to Reconciliation": Trump Doubles Down on Rally in Tulsa, Site of 1921 Massacre President Donald Trump says he will push ahead with a massive campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, even as COVID cases are surging there as the state reopens.

SHARE        Thursday, June 11, 2020
U.S. Passes 2 Million Coronavirus Cases as States Lift Restrictions, Raising Fears of a Second Wave The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has officially topped 2 million in the United States, the highest number in the world by far, but public health officials say the true number of infections is certain to be many times greater.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 2, 2020
"A Declaration of War Against Americans": Trump Threatens to Deploy Military to Quell Protests As a historic week-long uprising against police violence continues and curfews are in place across the United States, President Trump has declared himself "the president of law and order" and threatened to send thousands of heavily armed soldiers into the streets.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Harvard Doctor: As States Rush to Reopen, Lack of COVID-19 Testing Is "Achilles Heel" for U.S. As the COVID-19 death toll tops 90,000 in the United States, President Trump claimed Monday he's been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, even though multiple studies show the drug can be dangerous, is not effective in treating COVID-19.

SHARE        Friday, May 8, 2020
"A Lynch Mob": After Months of Inaction, 2 White Men Are Charged with Murder of Ahmaud Arbery in GA The two White men who were caught on film shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African American man, in February, were arrested and charged with murder, two days after the video was shared with the public, sparking widespread outrage.

SHARE        Thursday, April 30, 2020
WHO Adviser on Meat Plants: If We're at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization Center on National and Global Health Law Gostin discusses why he joined 40 leading center directors in a declaration this week that urges Trump and Congress to restore and increase WHO funding.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 23, 2020
"The Virus Is Still Out There": Infectious Disease Expert Warns Against Reopening States Too Soon Despite strong objections of public health officials, governors in Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina still plan to reopen parks, beaches and nonessential businesses. Even Trump reversed his support.

SHARE        Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Juan Gonza'lez: My 92-Year-Old Mother's COVID-19 Experience Shows Me How Rotten Our Health System Is "Why, in a country that spends so much money on healthcare, are we still having problems producing the most basic equipment, [such as masks, gowns and tests]," says Democracy Now! co-host, Juan Gonza'lez,

SHARE        Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders & Fight for a Progressive Future As millions hope to receive support as soon as possible from the massive coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress without adequate oversight mechanisms, we look at who will benefit from "extraordinary asymmetrical assistance" that went to corporations instead of working people.

SHARE        Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Economist Jeffrey Sachs: Trump "Understands Nothing, Listens to Nothing" as Pandemic Surges in U.S. After four days of negotiations on Monday, Senate Democrats stopped Republicans from advancing a nearly $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that critics say is a massive bailout for corporate America, that does little to aid hard-hit workers amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

SHARE        Tuesday, March 24, 2020
"Top Priority Is Release": Will Rikers Island Free More Prisoners as 60+ Test Positive for COVID-19? As COVID-19 begins to spread in the U.S. prison system, calls are growing in the New York City epicenter of the pandemic to release people from Rikers Island, the second-largest jail system in the country. At least 39 prisoners and 21 staff at Rikers Island have tested positive.

SHARE        Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Prisons Worldwide Face Coronavirus Crisis: Overcrowding, Lack of Sanitation & Labor at Slave Wages The United Nations confirmed that coronavirus had reached Iran's prisons, as the number of cases there continues to soar. Iran has temporarily freed some 70,000 prisoners in response to the coronavirus. In the U.S., New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing backlash after announcing Monday that New York state would respond to the growing coronavirus outbreak here by producing its own hand sanitizer made by prisoners.

SHARE        Friday, March 6, 2020
Progressives Urge Elizabeth Warren to Rally Behind Bernie Sanders After She Drops Out of 2020 Race Senator Warren's decision to end her campaign comes after she failed to perform as well as she had hoped in early primary states and on Super Tuesday, including placing third in her home state of Massachusetts. Warren gave no indication whether she'll endorse either of her former rivals, Sanders or Biden.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 4, 2020
The Case Against Joe Biden: Former VP's Long Career Shows a Recurring Theme of "Appeasing the Right" Following his Super Tuesday wins, we look closely at the record of former Vice President Joe Biden, from his central role in supporting the Iraq War to expanding the so-called war on drugs

SHARE        Thursday, February 27, 2020
"Pence Is Not a Medical Expert": Is the Trump Admin Ready to Stop a U.S. Coronavirus Pandemic? The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus outbreak an international health emergency. President Trump sought to play down the threat from coronavirus and announced Vice President Mike Pence would be his point person to coordinate government efforts to prevent a widespread outbreak.

SHARE        Friday, January 24, 2020
Trump Brags About Withholding Evidence as Democratic Impeachment Managers Lay Out Case in the Senate House impeachment managers spent about eight hours on Wednesday laying out their case for why President Trump should be removed from office. While the impeachment trial was taking place in the Senate, President Trump was across the Atlantic at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he tweeted more than 140 times and dismissed the impeachment trial as a hoax.

SHARE        Monday, December 30, 2019
Michael Moore on Trump, 2020 & Why "the Old, Angry White Guy" Doesn't Represent the Working Class Michael Moore said the working class in the United States is mostly women, people of color and young people all groups who tend to vote Democratic. Moore, who supports Bernie Sanders, said Democrats can win if they focus on these voters and on bold proposals like Medicare for All.

SHARE        Saturday, December 28, 2019
Michael Moore: Republicans Who Oppose Impeachment Are "Dying Dinosaurs," But Trump Could Win in 2020 Senator Lisa Murkowski said, in an interview in Alaska station KTUU in Anchorage, that she was "disturbed" by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's promise of "total coordination" with the White House.

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