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News & Views | 5/7/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"President Trump rewards a partisan donor by installing him at the United States Postal Service. This crony doesn't cut it."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Government watchdogs on Thursday called the U.S. Justice Department's decision to drop its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn "an outrage," saying the move was made for the political benefit of President Donald Trump.


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) removes a mask he is wearing to protect himself and others from Covid-19 as he arrives to speak to the media following the weekly Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 5, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a joint letter Wednesday to the Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress, six consumer rights groups expressed concern that "a broad range of businesses are seeking immunity from potential liability related to contracting Covid-19" and urged the federal lawmakers to block any attempts to weaken state-level protections.


Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are seen at an event with House and Senate Democrats in the Capitol on Wednesday, June 26, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Let's see what they propose. Not holding hope too high though."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Pelosi has run the House of Representatives by fiat for close to two months, and there hasn't been a single word of protest as she locks every other member of the Democratic caucus out of policymaking."


Rep. Ro Khanna

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Mega meatpackers have extracted profits from farmers, workers, and consumers for too long."


A 2019 coalition study found that U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Syria killed 1,302 people, but Amnesty International disputed that number as too low.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
International civil society groups responded to the Department of Defense's latest legally required report to Congress about the U.S. military's killing of civilians by sharing evidence that the death toll is actually much higher and demanding greater accountability and justice for victims and their families.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Economists and progressive lawmakers on Thursday pointed to new unemployment numbers as the latest evidence that Congress must pass bold legislation to give direct financial assistance to Americans.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Who will care for our patients when we get sick?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Half-measures that maintain the status quo won't move the needle or protect us from the next crisis."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were told by the White House that the agency's detailed guidance on reopening local economies would "never see the light of day," according to an Associated Press report published Thursday. 

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US President Donald Trump tours a Honeywell International Inc. factory producing N95 masks during his first trip since widespread COVID-19 related lockdowns went into effect May 5, 2020, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

by Les Leopold
Here is the chilling truth: To win reelection Trump is willfully allowing the virus to kill more and more of us, especially our most vulnerable—the old, the infirm, the poor, and the essential low-wage workers.


The Congressional Budget Office projects that without additional relief, the unemployment rate will average 16% in the third quarter of this year and 10.1% for the entire calendar year of 2021. (Photo: Getty Images)

by Heidi Shierholz
Congress must act to mitigate harm from unprecedented joblessness.


A worker installs solar panels at the Solarpark Eggersdorf solar park on September 4, 2012 near Muencheberg, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

by Sarah Lazare
We can get out of this depression and save the planet all at once.


More to the point, with any population, the difference between success and failure is preparation, swift action, and the techniques applied to overcome the pandemic. (Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

by Ann Jones
A journal of the onset of the plague year.


It has been obvious to many that the nation needs significant reform in health care funding and in the delivery of health care so that all in the U.S. have access to health care without financial impediment. (Photo: Rrenner—CC BY-SA 3.0)

by Cornelia van der Ziel, Jonathan King
One needs only to look at the Pentagon budget to find a ready source of funding for basic human needs.


A supporter holds a Bernie action figure outside a campaign event of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at Ingersoll Tap February 2, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa caucuses will be held on February 3. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
"We have had enough of the status quo policies that do not change the material conditions for the poor, working poor and middle class in this country," said former Sanders national co-chair Nina Turner this week. "We intend to keep pushing for a government that works for everyone."

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