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News & Views | 3/5/20

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a campaign rally at the Charleston Music Hall on February 26, 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina. South Carolina holds its Democratic presidential primary on Saturday, February 29. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
How Warren answers that question might determine the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. In the process, she will profoundly etch into history the reality of her political character.

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Warren, Biden, Sanders

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After Sen. Elizabeth Warren formally ended her presidential campaign Thursday, progressives nationwide highlighted the Massachusetts Democrat's contributions to the 2020 primary race and elevated the call for her to join with Sen. Bernie Sanders to defeat the corporate establishment that has now coalesced around former Vice President Joe Biden.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Dozens of civil society groups on Thursday demanded that the Trump administration bar monopolies and price-gouging on vaccines and coronavirus treatments, rejecting any effort by private companies to profit off of the COVID-19 public health crisis which has affected more than 100 Americans so far.


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) being interviewed by activist Ady Barkan during a campaign stop in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: NowThis News/Youtube Screengrab)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It's not about him. It's about us."


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), with husband Bruce Mann, announces that she is dropping out of the presidential race during a media availability outside of her home on March 5, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I will not be running for president in 2020," Warren said, "but I guarantee I will stay in the fight for the hardworking folks across this country who have gotten the short end of the stick over and over. That's been the fight of my life and it will continue to be so."


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) gestures as former Vice President Joe Biden listens during the Democratic presidential primary debate at Loyola Marymount University on December 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"We're spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people of any other country and yet 27 million are uninsured, 30,000 people die, half a million people go bankrupt every year because of medical-related debt, and we spend far and away the highest prices in the world for prescription...


Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 4, 2020 in New York City.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Trump staking his presidency on a good stock market was once just an annoying tic," said The Nation 's Jeet Heer. "But now there's a situation that makes it actively harmful."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"These are really dangerous lies."



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Civil rights groups and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. are calling on Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to halt the execution of 44-year-old Nathaniel Woods, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening despite serious questions about his guilt and serious concerns about the legal process that led to his sentence.


A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We just don't have the capacity in the hospitals and health systems to deal with a massive influx of patients and keep them isolated."


Afghan children look on as a U.S. soldier from the Provincial Reconstruction team (PRT) Steel Warriors patrols in the mountains of Nuristan Province on Dec. 19, 2009.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Human rights advocates celebrated Thursday after the International Criminal Court determined that an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by United States forces and others in Afghanistan during the so-called War on Terror can proceed.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren pictured with the author and her husband, Larry Smith. (Photo: Progressive Democrats of America)

by Donna Smith
Warren has been and ever will be the kind of powerful, American woman I will look up to with wonder and gratitude.


As early as tonight—Thursday, March 5—a black man in Alabama, Nathaniel Woods, is scheduled to be executed for three tragic murders that another man has confessed to. (Photo: Alabama Dept. of Corrections)

by Bill Kitchen
Sanders probably has little, if any, influence with Gov. Ivey. But he does have the ability to bring national attention to an issue just by mentioning it.


Even in the midst of the most serious epidemic of recent times, Azar's thoughts at his press conference signify he's comfortable with a system that puts corporate profits over public health. (Photo: CNN/Screenshot)

by Jeffrey D. Sachs
What Alex Azar appears to be saying is that a coronavirus vaccine, once it is developed, will be left to the private marketplace rather than to government procurement.


Hundreds of Oberlin College students protested a recent announcement that the Ohio college is "formally considering" contracting with outside vendors, potentially cutting 108 United Automobile Workers union jobs. (Photo: Mallika Pandey / Oberlin Review)

by Les Leopold
Only the strongest actions from Alumni are likely to prevent the carnage that the College is about to unleash on these workers, on the community so dependent upon it, and on itself.


Voters who waited absurdly long hours in line to cast their ballots, or even would-be voters who were unable to vote. I wonder how Sanders did among these categories? (Photo: Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
We are not yet the nation we are struggling to become, but the Sanders campaign, however it fares in 2020, is helping to shape that future. It’s doing so one voter at a time, whether or not their vote is counted.


Fundamental health reform would benefit typical American families in all sorts of ways. (Photo: NNU/flickr/cc)

by Josh Bivens
Job loss claims are misleading, and substantial boosts to job quality are often overlooked.

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