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A recent decision out of New York is turning heads in the legal community over what law professors and environmental activists say is a turning point for the state's energy economy, with potentially broader implications nationwide. In a long-awaited decision, New York...
By the time the coronavirus pandemic reached a crisis level in the United States in March, José Velásquez had already spent almost 900 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. A Guatemalan asylum seeker, Velásquez had celebrated his 18th and 19th...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing new criticism after the Associated Press reported Friday that a state directive led to over 4,300 still recovering coronavirus patients being sent to New York's "already vulnerable nursing homes." "It was a death...
Not just Trump, but the whole US ruling class must pay for the mass Covid death toll among Blacks, because only the ruling class has the power to systematically allocate life-death chances for whole populations over generations. “To limit the indictment to Donald...
Prominent scientists have warned of a grim future for the coronavirus pandemic, while President Donald Trump has said the virus will “go away,” even without a vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is splitting the difference. The nation’s top public...
The COVID-19 pandemic’s global spread has highlighted inequities in the world like inequality of income and access to resources in many communities. The response to the crisis has been a varied patchwork of public health measures and economic assistance, but in most...
It was called “one of the most brazen acts of voter suppression in modern history.” With an unsigned opinion, believed to come from Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court voted 5–4 that it was OK for Wisconsin to disqualify ballots postmarked and received after their...
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling reinstating the presidential primaries in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Letitia James, sought to block the vote from happening. Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will be on...
Time for Progressives to Seize House Relief Bills On Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership revealed their proposal for the latest stimulus bill, titled the HEROES act. While it allocates $3 trillion to relief—including another one-time $1,200...
Despite never having heard of a pension plan before this year, 18-year-old Natalie Penna finds herself discussing New York state's retirement fund, and its role in financing the fossil fuel industry, quite a lot lately. "We're investing in these things that will...