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Reader Comments: No One is Above the Law; Climate Briefing; Fast Food Workers; Affordable Housing - New York's Coops; John Sweeney; Black Panther Party; Jazz and Race; International symposium - Rosa Luxemburg; Working-Class New York Revisited; more.

The Green New Deal is all about a jobs and justice approach to climate policies, so I think that the new climate corps proposal really encapsulates that. One of the most popular programs from the New Deal is making a comeback, nearly 90 years later.

Healing the dual miseries of COVID-19 and economic insecurity requires relief sufficient to ensure that all individuals, their families and their loved ones can live through this pandemic. The time to go big is now.

Congress should immediately pass the Wall Street Tax Act,(A Financial Transaction Tax - FTT), which would tax the sort of high-speed trading that has turned the financial sector into a casino at the expense of our communities.

Texas brought this crisis on themselves by insisting on operating their own power grid that doesn’t connect with others; by failing to do anything to make the grid more resilient; by creating a political system that is controlled by power and money.

Essential workers prepare international strike on Women's Day, and more reports from popular movements and left parties

Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

More than ever, many entrenched Democrats are worried about primary challenges from the left. Such fears are all to the good.

Capitalism stands naked before the world, and other news