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News & Views | 3/4/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If she can make the case for Sanders, she'll help build a progressive front against a moneyed and well-organized moderate force."

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Amazon forest canopy at dawn in Brazil.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We've found that one of the most worrying impacts of climate change has already begun."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
While most political observers were watching the primary election results in 14 states Tuesday evening, the EPA quietly published a proposed change to a rule the Union of Concerned Scientists has called "nonsensical and dangerous"—expanding the agency's so-called "secret science" rule to further limit the scientific evidence the EPA will consider in its work.


Former Vice President Joe Biden's performance in the Super Tuesday contests March 3 prompted a stock market rally on Wednesday.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Biden is the preferred candidate for the financial markets."



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After Texas voters waited in hourslong lines on Super Tuesday, voting rights experts and advocates highlighted the state's systemic problems with election administration, expressed concerns about the possibility of similar issues in November, and urged elected officials to make it easier—not harder—for Texans to get to the ballot box.


Temperatures in the waters around the Great Barrier Reef Wednesday were higher than usual.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's a sobering reality we're in."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Medicare for All is winning," said Alyssa Kang, community organizer with the California Nurses Association.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need transparency. Instead we are getting this."


Collage. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, his wife Jane and his other family members arrive at a Super Tuesday Rally inside the Champlain Valley Exposition Center in Burlington, VT on March 3, 2020. Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a Super Tuesday event in Los Angeles on March 3, 2020. (Sanders Photo: John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe/Getty Images | Biden Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
While Sen. Bernie Sanders laid claim to the big-delegate prize in California, former Vice President showed with multiple wins in key states that he is now the corporate Democrat's only hope. "May the best candidate win."


Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) looks on as Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) speaks

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Pelosi, the DCCC, and Charles Koch all teamed up for Cuellar."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Progressives celebrated the end of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's short-lived presidential campaign Wednesday after the billionaire dropped out.

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Charles Brave, president of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, speaks during an "I'm a Medicare for All Voter" campaign press conference in Charleston, South Carolina on February 24, 2020. (Photo: Medicare for All — South Carolina/Twitter)

by Adolph Reed Jr., Willie Legette
By reducing all of black Americans' concerns to race or exploiting the idea of a singular "black vote" in the first place, the elite political class continues to undermine our ability to organize the majoritarian social movement we need to combat the ruling-class assault on all working people in...


Trump is not ending wars, but preparing for more war. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Khury Petersen-Smith
Trump has sent more new troops to the Middle East than he’s bringing home from Afghanistan.


If media really cared, they would make some distinctions between the different kinds of money corrupting our elections, and their size and impact—context that’s been lacking in the “they all do it” coverage of the issue. (Photo: The Intercept)

by Julie Hollar
All that soft money doesn’t go to the candidates—most of it goes directly toward ad buys, so it supports the salaries of people like Maddow and Bolduan. They aren’t about to bite the hand that feeds them.


Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden speak during the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019. (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
As Democratic establishment coalesces around Biden, 2020 primary starting to look a lot Like 2016.


Biden’s approach will also leave millions without proper health care, which is unacceptable in a civilized society. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
On three big issues of major concern to the public, Biden ranges from being fairly good to being wholly inadequate. Sanders is superb on all three.


Those of us who have been with this unprecedented social justice movement with our heart and soul for the last many years expect that Bernie goes to this climactic fight with Biden with nothing left unsaid. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Anis Shivani
The gloves must immediately come off when it comes to treating Joe Biden.

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