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News & Views | 8/1/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senate Republicans will stop at nothing to stack the courts with partisan judges who will push their radical agenda through at any cost."

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U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a letter Thursday to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, 33 House Democrats demanded that U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost resign over her participation in a secret Facebook group in which members of the federal agency shared racist, sexist, and violent comments about migrants and members of Congress.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
After two Democratic candidates in this week's presidential primary debates called for an end to government subsidies for fossil fuel companies, a new study revealed that even reducing the subsidies—as the world's wealthiest countries pledged to a decade ago—would kickstart "clean energy revolution."


Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) attacked Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) during last night's primary debate. Harris' allies responded with a theory about a nefarious Russian plot.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Why are people attacking the messenger rather than addressing the criticisms?"


snowden's memoir

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Exiled American whistleblower Edward Snowden, who rattled the U.S. intelligence establishment and ignited a worldwide debate about surveillance by leaking classified documents in 2013, announced Thursday that his memoir, Permanent Record, is set to be published globally on Sept. 17.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We can win this battle and guarantee health care as a human right, but we need a nominee who is going to fight hard for Medicare for All."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Lindsey Graham is so desperate to attack asylum seekers that he just broke the rules of his own committee to advance his bill."

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Despite the proposals to curb our government’s reliance on private prisons, the banks running for the hills, and legislators passing laws to make it challenging for the industry to operate, its future appears to be a mixed bag. (Photo: Getty/RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post)

by Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Controversy over immigration policy is shining an unwelcome spotlight on the private prison industry, which runs detention facilities that house tens of thousands of immigrants.


What's on display is the spiritual laziness of incredibly powerful men. (Photos: National Archives/Getty Images; AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

by Robert C. Koehler
Donald Trump, it turns out, is merely the inner Richard Nixon, live and uncensored. He’s also the inner Ronald Reagan—the inner voice, suddenly made public, of every white male racist who has ever occupied the Oval Office.


Food stamps are a huge stimulus to the economy. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Jill Richardson
Food stamps helped me get back on my feet during a tough time. Cutting them is lose-lose.


Their petulance is that of the underachieving rich kid who nevertheless manages to snatch power for himself and has only contempt for those who let him get there. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

by Sarah Jaffe
Four decades of relentless there-is-no-alternative propaganda has so many people believing that change is impossible, so you might as well stick your middle finger up at the world instead.


Inslee did use most of his time to hammer on the "climate crisis."(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Ryan Cooper
Kudos to Jay Inslee for trying to save America and human society.


There’s little discussion even now about preventing the workplace injuries that cause the pain that contribute to opioid use and abuse. (Photo: Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)

by Michael Felsen
In 2001, Congress rescinded the ergonomics standard that was designed to stem a range of common disabling workplace injuries. Absent regulation, injuries increased and large numbers of people were treated with addictive pain medications.

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