Elon Musk and the Billionaire War on Public Health
Billionaire Elon Musk recently defied local public health officials and reopened his flagship Tesla auto assembly plant in Fremont, California. Public safety officials had ordered that plant shut down — over Musk’s fierce opposition — almost two months earlier. “This...
How Pro-Trump Millionaires Robbed Small Businesses of Coronavirus Aid
Monty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list of high-dollar donors to Donald Trump — until he suddenly surfaced in April as the nation’s biggest bagger of government cash in the emergency Paycheck Protection Program. Bennett got $76...
To Save Lives — and Democracy — We Need to Vote by Mail
For many Americans, vote-by-mail will be a matter of life and death come November. In a pandemic, it is immoral to force voters to choose between their health and their freedom to vote. And it is immoral to knowingly trigger a major outbreak of the coronavirus when...
A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons
If you’ve ever had a parent or loved one incarcerated, you know how scary it can be. There’s so much that can go wrong in prison, and neither you nor your loved one have much control over it. Thanks to mass incarceration, millions live with this fear every day — 64...