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News & Views | 8/9/19

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We’re used to thinking of Hitler’s Third Reich as the incomparably evil tyranny that it undoubtedly was. But Hitler didn’t take power by force. He used a set of rhetorical tropes codified in Trump’s bedside reading that persuaded enough Germans to welcome Hitler as a populist leader. (Photo: photolibrarian/Flickr/cc)

by Steven Rosenfeld
The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government can contain Trump and GOP power grabs.

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This attempted power grab at the expense of state-based clean water oversight is the epitome of hypocrisy."


At a June event in Kansas City, a Sunrise Movement activist confronted Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Tom Perez about refusing to hold a climate debate.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Why is Tom Perez trying to kill the momentum for a climate debate?"


bleached coral

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the human-caused climate crisis drives up ocean temperatures at a rate that has scientists worried, a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized.


President Donald Trump (L) sits beside Executive Vice President and CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA) Wayne LaPierre (R), during a meeting on Trump's Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 1, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Gun violence in the U.S. is a human rights crisis. This is an emergency. It will continue to be an emergency until our lawmakers treat it as such."


This image obtained through a FOIA request by the Center for Biological Diversity shows a dead wolf or coyote near a poison sign in New Mexico.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Conservation groups say the devices are indiscriminate killers that should be banned


phone and facebook

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Civil liberties advocates celebrated after a federal court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that Facebook users in Illinois can sue the social media giant on the grounds that its facial recognition technology violates a strict state privacy law.

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Artivists STL, an artist collective that formed in the midst of the Ferguson Uprising, created this liberation alter to honor Michael Brown Jr. (Photo: Harry Wadlington)

by Lornet Turnbull
On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown's death, his family and the town of Ferguson look to the past—and future—to bring about meaningful change.


Handcuffed workers at the Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss. await transportation to a processing center following an Aug. 7 raid by U.S. immigration officials. (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis / AP)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
We are going to require deep reserves of patience, persistence and militant, nonviolent resistance to Trump, Trumpism, racism, white supremacy and violence.


Globally, industrialized agriculture now emits extraordinarily high levels of GHG emissions as a sector. (Photo: Jason Johnson/Flickr/cc)

by Juliette Majot
Consumers will not understand how agricultural systems work (and what we must do to maintain them), without being taught and agribusiness will not cede power without the strong insistence of the public and political will.


Elizabeth Warren, looking more and more viable. (Photo: Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

by Ed Kilgore
Recent polls have clearly indicated that Warren is going places.


People attend a candlelight vigil at a makeshift memorial honoring victims of a mass shooting which left at least 22 people dead, on August 7, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. President Donald Trump visited the city earlier today. A 21-year-old white male suspect remains in custody in El Paso which sits along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Phil Rockstroh
Trump is not an anomaly of a morally bankrupt nation, but rather an emblem


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) participates in a Fox News town hall on April 15, 2019, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images)

by Shane Ryan
Ultimately, this is about reach. Electoral College Mindset has led us to believe that there are certain demographics who are lost to us totally, but this is ridiculous

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