Armed Michigan Protesters Fueled Jon Hoadley’s Commitment To Run For Congress If he wins his bid to represent the state’s Sixth District, Hoadley says he would reallocate police funding, improve health care, and invest in rural communities. Dawn R. Wolfe
President Trump’s Eviction Moratorium Falls Far Short Of Calls For Rent And Mortgage Cancellation Tenants and progressive leaders who cried out for a national action must now grapple with two truths: This eviction moratorium will save lives, but everything about it is a page out of Trump’s re-election playbook. Tara Raghuveer
COVID-19 Exposes Stark Inequalities Across U.S. As Thousands Struggle Daily To Find Food ‘It’s not only poor people standing in food lines, or going to food pantries and soup kitchens. Now you have the middle class and businesses that are suffering, too,’ one organizer said. Elizabeth Brico
Governors Who Are Banding Together on Pandemic Response Should Adopt Universal Basic Income The federal government is not going to lead the way on addressing the economic pain caused by the shutdowns. But states have the power to do something about it now. David A. Love
Coronavirus Lays Bare The Staggering Class Inequalities That Divide America Neither the coronavirus nor anything else is a ‘great equalizer’ because we aren’t, actually, all in this together. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Voters Want Guaranteed Paychecks Through The Pandemic Voters want the government to take common sense measures that meet the scale of the crisis and preserve the economy so that when the coronavirus is contained, economic life can resume as rapidly as possible. It's time for lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to listen. Lindsay Owens, Ethan Winter
Inequality, Not Violence, Is Killing Americans At Record Rates Media coverage obsessively focuses on homicides, which are at historical lows. Meanwhile, suicides and overdoses skyrocket, quietly driving record declines in American life expectancy. Jonathan Ben-Menachem
