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News & Views | 4/9/20

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks during a news conference with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) at the U.S. Capitol January 25, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is a crisis of unprecedented scale, and Democrats need to use the full power of the House to advance solutions that match the needs of the moment."

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders listens as former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"These policies are what I would expect from Republicans. This is not a 'big overture' by any stretch of the imagination."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"That provision's a body blow to transparency when we need it most."


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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a ruling celebrated Thursday by rights advocates seeking the liberation of as many detained immigrants as possible during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the release of four men whose respective ages and medical conditions make them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.


A government health official sprays a chlorine solution in the streets as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Nairobi on March 19, 2020. (Photo: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
"We can only beat this virus through coming together as one...Rich country governments must massively upscale their help."


A resident waits in line to vote at a polling place at Riverside University High School on April 7, 2020 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Calls are mounting from rights advocates for Congress to fully fund a nationwide shift to mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic after a "civic catastrophe" in Wisconsin Tuesday, when the state's Republican legislative leaders and Supreme Court forced people to vote in-person despite the serious threat to public health.


A volunteer holds a specimen bag while conducting drive-through coronavirus testing at Malibu City Hall on April 8, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If anything, we should err on the side of testing 'too much'—we're *nowhere* near that."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"There's no evidence I've seen in the literature suggesting zinc in addition to hydroxychloroquine would be helpful."


Red sign hanging at the glass door of a shop says, "Closed due to coronavirus."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a development described as "absolutely staggering," the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed unemployment claims last week, bringing the three-week total to roughly 16.8 million—meaning about 10% of the nation's workforce has become jobless during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.


"People are dead because Eli Lily refused to lower the cost of insulin all along, instead price gouging us and raising prices year after year for no reason other than greed."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Good of them to help diabetics who will die without insulin while their lives at risk from coronavirus. Unlike all those other times when their lives are simply at risk from harmless diabetes."


Cesar, 35, an asylum seeker from Nicaragua waits with his wife, Carolina, 25, (Right) and his eight-year-old son Donovan as a U.S. Customs and Border agent looks on on April 6, 2020 at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juaarez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is cruel and unnecessary."

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As a trained healthcare worker, I could be helping with COVID-19 response efforts. Instead, I am fighting for my life. (Photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Tatalu Helen Dada
No one deserves to die from COVID-19 because of government abuse and indifference. The government has a duty to adequately and humanely care for those it has taken and detained.


Postal workers are rising to the challenge of a crisis unlike any we’ve ever experienced. (Photo: Ron Doke/Flickr/cc)

by Sarah Anderson
Trump and leaders in Congress must immediately fill the gap in the stimulus bill with direct relief on the scale needed to save our public Postal Service and the many businesses and families that depend on it.


Staff and volunteers with Project C.U.R.E hold a drive outside the United Center to collect donations of personal protective equipment from the community. The equipment will be used to supply hospitals and clinics that are experiencing shortages because of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 29, 2020, in Chicago. (PHOTO BY SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES)

by Ruth Terry
The efforts range from a Slack chat community connecting people around the world to suggestions about what to do with your stimulus check.


If cities, states, and the federal government can choose to release prisoners due to COVID-19, what does that tell us about the purpose and meaning of imprisonment? (Photo: Robyn Beck / AFP - Getty Images)

by Zoe Weil
We are being offered an opportunity to carefully examine a destructive, expensive, punitive system and transform it into one that could be just, restorative, and good for individuals and society as a whole.


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by Kevin Martin
The pandemic has shown how unsustainable our economy is, particularly continuing to forego investment in our human, physical and environmental infrastructure to feed a voracious war machine.


Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders raises his fist as he addresses the Democratic Party's 61st Annual McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club dinner at SNHU arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on February 8, 2020. (Photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
In these important battles we wage, we will often lose—but we must not give up.

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