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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
From a tax on Wall Street speculation to slashing the military budget, Sanders' presidential campaign summarized how it would pay for its plans.

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Supporters hold Bernie placards as Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a Get Out to Caucus Rally at Springs Preserve Amphitheater in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 21, 2020. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Ahead of South Carolina debate, new ad features uplifting speech of unity by campaign surrogate and rapper "Killer Mike" about shared burdens and hopes of the 99%.



Public Citizen truck

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As activists and experts descended on the U.S. Department of the Interior building in Washington, D.C. Tuesday for a public forum and rally about the Trump administration's recent attack on one of the nation's landmark environmental laws, the advocacy group Public Citizen parked a truck with a massive screen nearby to play a video of a top official morphing into a "swamp monster" on loop for eight hours.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You've got candidates, you've got super PACs, all piling on to stop Bernie Sanders. They know he has the momentum in the race."


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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Public health experts on Tueaday were shifting their attention in discussing the coronavirus—which has infected more than 80,000 people and killed nearly 3,000 since it originated in Wuhan, China in December—as a virus which is expected to spread to much of the world population, including throughout the United States.



 Fred Hiatt

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
One journalist said the piece "tells the story of how your house burned down, from the arsonists' perspective."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The president is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Seven young Jewish Americans were arrested Tuesday at former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign headquarters in Philadelphia, where they staged a public action demanding Biden skip the annual conference held by right-wing anti-Palestinian rights lobbying group AIPAC.



A shop set on fire during clashes between a group of anti-CAA protestors and supporters of the new citizenship act, near Maujpur and Jaffrabad metro station on February 24, 2020 in New Delhi, India.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"That this recent burst of anti-Muslim violence comes during Trump's visit to India is only proof of not only Trump's own legitimizing power of violence against Muslims but also the Pavlovian fascist reactionism in India to a fascist like Trump."



JPMorgan chase protest

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Faced with mounting public pressure to take the climate crisis seriously and to end its financing for the fossil fuel industry, the investment bank JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that it will stop backing extraction projects in the Arctic and phase out loans for coal by 2024 but keep funding oil and gas developments across the globe.



Democratic elites bandying about the idea of stealing the nomination from Sanders in a brokered convention should think twice, say progressives.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"While we can see why they'd want to exploit existing processes however they can, there's no reason we should let them. Besides, if a candidate did win through a brokered convention, it would be a disaster for the Democrats in November."


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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) waves to guests after being interviewed by Rev. Jesse Jackson at Operation Rainbow Push on March 12, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Residents in Illinois go to the polls on March 15 for their state's primary. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
Sen. Sanders isn't talking about making America into Cuba or Venezuela. He's talking about extending social guarantees like those offered in other advanced countries, such as Denmark and Sweden.



A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wears a sign reading 'Don't shoot the messenger' while she demonstrates outside Woolwich Crown Court prior to his extradition hearing on February 25, 2020 in London, England. Assange is wanted by the United States on charges related to the publication of classified US military documents and faces a possible maximum 175-year prison sentence. (Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

by Nozomi Hayase
Major human rights organizations and press freedom groups, including Amnesty International and The Committee to Protect Journalists, have now come out strongly against Assange's extradition to the United States.



A Green New Deal might be expensive, but doing nothing about climate change will almost certainly cost far more. (Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr/cc)

by Robert Reich
If we don’t launch something as bold as a Green New Deal, we’ll spend trillions coping with the consequences of our failure to be bold.



Donald Trump—bully, boss, and self-appointed protector of his followers—reminds us to be afraid, be very afraid. (Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

by Phyllis Eckhaus
Politics is about power…and only the most privileged can afford to ignore the looming terror of navigating the world with neither power nor protection, of being at the mercy of ruthless others.



while the attacks on Sanders contributed to his defeat in 2016, they proved less effective than the red-baiting of old.

by Bill Blum
If Donald Trump is to be unseated in November, the red-baiting of the Democratic frontrunner and the demonizing of his supporters must end—full stop, once and for all.



Despite leadership’s rejection of Sanders he won an overwhelming victory in Nevada and appears to have done very well in union households. (Photo: Gary Cameron/Reuters)

by John Buell
Sanders defenders have done a good job explaining that freedom of choice of one’s physicians and cost savings are better secured by Medicare For All than by any private plan.


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