Along with many other things, Covid-19 has underscored the individual and communal harms of a water affordability crisis in this country that usually remains hidden.

"We see high prices, recurring shortages and declining innovation, but also these issues about drug safety and mass marketing, as the natural outcomes of an industry that is oriented around the singular goal of maximizing profit."

"The economic system has got to shut down. It is not an option to leave the economy running while we fight this virus; that is not a possibility."

As we now sit, eyes glued to every media, journalists carry a great responsibility: to translate evolving information, projections and recommendations into accessible news that reflects appropriate gravity without being unhelpfully alarmist.

"For people to actually understand that we need to audit the debt, that we need to understand the debt, and that we shouldn't be paying any debt that was created illegally, has been a struggle in itself."

The vast majority of Venezuela’s voting machines were incinerated on March 7 in a fire that engulfed the main warehouse of the National Electoral Council. Corporate outlets followed the familiar script of blaming the victim,

"The pundits that are put on television have connections to defense contractors, and they see their stocks going up as there's talk about 'will America go to war again?'”

Puerto Rico is a living lesson about climate disaster capitalism, the failure and cruelty of austerity, and the need for new ways forward.

"In an epidemic like this, the absolute worst thing is people who don't get tested, or don't get treated, because they're worried about cost. But that's a reality of life in America; lots of people forgo healthcare because they think it's going to be t...

Election Focus 2020: News organizations seemed unable to process that a major national political figure could say something positive about a socialist country, leaving these outlets flailing around in absurd ways.