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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to guests during a campaign stop at Berg Middle School on January 11, 2020 in Newton, Iowa. A recent poll has Sanders with a narrow lead in the state ahead of the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses being held on February 3. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
The 2020 Democratic frontrunner said the president is "trying to dismantle the right to a free press in the First Amendment by suing the New York Times for publishing an opinion column about his dangerous relationship with Russia."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor Wednesday to call out some of her Republican colleagues for failing to read the Green New Deal resolution she introduced over a year ago—and then read the entire 14-page proposal into the public record.


Locusts swarm from ground vegetation

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Top United Nations relief officials warned Tuesday that millions more in funding is needed to combat East Africa's worst outbreak of desert locusts in decades, arguing that "acting now to avert a food crisis is a more humane, effective, and cost efficient approach than responding to the aftermath of disaster."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The civil rights movement always was targeted by those that would use the Red Scare. They accused Dr. King of being a communist. We've been down that road before."

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Besides "massively invade our privacy, the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of the phone numbers we called produced only one 'significant' investigation," said Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. (Image EFF Photos/flickr/cc)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The whistleblower's call follows reporting by the New York Times showing the agency's sprawling photo data collection effort came with a $100 million pricetag and nearly no success.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Two days before IfNotNow members were set to protest at Sen. Amy Klobuchar's presidential campaign headquarters in Minneapolis to demand the senator skip this year's AIPAC conference, the senator and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg both announced that they would not attend the Israel lobby's meeting this year.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Nobody on the debate stage except Bernie has the guts to say the truth about the legacy of U.S. foreign policy."


Chris Matthews interviews Sen. Elizabeth Warren following a recent Democratic presidential primary debate. On Tuesday, Matthews questioned Warren's position that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is lying about reports that he sexually harassed and discriminated against his employees.

by Julia Conley, staff writer
Women's advocacy group UltraViolet called on MSNBC to fire host Chris Matthews Wednesday after he deployed what critics called typical tactics aimed at sowing doubt about discrimination allegations against former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, following Tuesday evening's Democratic debate.


H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, passed the House overwhelmingly on a 410-4 vote.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Today, we send a strong message that violence—and race-based violence, in particular—has no place in America."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I think it speaks to the fundamental, endemic corruption of the Democratic Party establishment that you had to pay... multiple thousands of dollars to get into that room."


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a lead sponsor of the Green New Deal, on Tuesday critized the Democratic presidential debate moderators for not asking any climate crisis-related questions. (Photo: Senate Democrats/flickr/cc)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
It's "honestly shocking that CBS , in the final Democratic debate before Super Tuesday, didn't ask a single question about the defining issue of our lives," said the Sunrise Movement.

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U.S. Attorney General William Barr during an interview on ABC News earlier this month. (Photo: ABC News/Screengrab)

by Robert Reich
What occurred under Nixon is happening again. Trump has usurped the independence of the Department of Justice for his own ends.


This disdain is both telling and absurd. In Europe, Sanders would be a mainstream social democrat. (Photo: Angel Zayas/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jeffrey D. Sachs
America's plutocrats and their media allies are certain that US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is unelectable, or that, if somehow elected, he would bring about the collapse of the republic. This disdain is both telling and absurd.


U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with supporters at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo: Gage Skidmore, courtesy of Flickr)

by Sophie Vaughan
There are deep parallels between what Bernie Sanders is proposing and what Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised.


MSNBC host Chris Matthews on "Morning Joe" Monday said he was unhappy with the direction voters are taking the Democratic Party. (Photo: screenshot/MSNBC)

by Jacob Bacharach
This ineffectual effort to red-bait Sanders and smear his supporters as wannabe Stalinists or violent revolutionaries, are absurd on their face.


We’d like for them to stop torturing animals and lying about it. (Photo: Eva Hamer)

by Eva Hamer
We don’t have the space to rescue ever piglet that dies on the floor of a Costco animal warehouse, but we do have the truth.


Buttar’s recognition and support are growing in the San Francisco district he hopes to represent and beyond as Californians, who moved the date of their primary from June to Super Tuesday, mail in their ballots or prepare to head to the polls on March 3. (Photo: https://shahidforchange.us/)

by Brett Wilkins
"He is the leader that we need right now to take on the influence of money in politics, the environment, criminal justice reform and labor rights, which will not survive or tolerate any more centrist inaction."

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