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News & Views | 5/11/20
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The Trump Administration's "Monstrous Idea": Direct Payments in Exchange for Cuts to Social Security Benefits
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Donald Trump and his administration will stop at nothing to cut Social
Security."
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'Why Me, Specifically?' Says Asian-American Reporter After Trump Tells Her to 'Ask China' About Testing
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Unbelievably ugly ending to Trump press conference."
Rights Groups Work to Stop 'Unnecessary and Potentially Disenfranchising Purges' of Voter Rolls in Pennsylvania
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
American civil rights groups on Monday moved to intervene in a lawsuit
filed by the right-wing activist group Judicial Watch that critics warn
could result in "the unnecessary and potentially disenfranchising
purges" of voter rolls in three Pennsylvania counties ahead of the
November elections.
'The Free Market Is Working,' Declares For-Profit Health Industry Front Group. No, Say Medicare for All Advocates, 'It Is Not.'
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It is not doing a good job. Never has. Never will."
Despite Haitians Who Tested Positive for Covid-19 Given Last-Minute Reprieve, Dems Demand Total Moratorium on Deportations During Pandemic
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Deporting people to Haiti in the midst of a global pandemic is both
inhumane and unsafe."
'Time for a Major Shift': Groups Demand Biden Vow End to Endless Wars and Destructive US Foreign Policy
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a letter Monday to former Vice President Joe Biden, over 50 groups
urged the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president to
embrace "a principled foreign policy, one that prioritizes diplomacy and
multilateralism over militarism."
Progressive International Launches 'To Form Common Front' in Global Struggle for Justice and a Better World
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Nothing less than the future of the planet is at stake."
Cartoon of "Campus Seen Through the Eyes of Conservatives" Goes Viral Because Right-Wingers Didn't Understand It Was Satire
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Right-wing idiots didn't realize the joke is on them not the students."
The Elders Issue Scathing Rebuke of Israel's Trump-Approved West Bank Annexation Plan
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians can only ever be
solved by finding a solution that guarantees peace, security, rights,
and dignity to both peoples. Unilaterally seizing territory and ignoring
international law achieves precisely the opposite."
As Covid-19 Devastates Already Struggling Industry, New Blueprint Sets Forth Bold Vision to Save Local Journalism
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the coronavirus pandemic continued to devastate local news outlets
across the United States—even as some have seen audience and
subscription boosts—the group Free Press Action on Monday unveiled a
proposal to provide crucial financial relief to newsrooms and reporters
while envisioning a more sustainable future for the industry.
'Conflicts of Interest Abound': Progressives Sound Alarm as BlackRock Prepares to Lead the Fed's Covid-19 Corporate Bailout Program
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We cannot afford to allow the interests of private corporations to
supersede the needs of the American people and the long-term stability
of our economy."
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This Empire Has No Clothes: In the Classroom That Zoom Built
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by Belle Chesler
Teaching across an abyss of silence.
If Only the US Had That $6.4 Trillion It Wasted on Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to Fight Covid-19 Pandemic
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by Juan Cole
Not only did we waste $6.4 trillion, we continue to wast trillions more
on war industries that don't actually do us any good or make us
perceptibly safer.
Botched Infiltration of Venezuela Leaves Guaidó Tainted Beyond Repair
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by Leonardo Flores
Unless Democrats begin to take advantage of the liability Guaidó
represents and push back against Trump's regime change efforts, there
seems to be little hope of improving U.S.–Venezuela relations,
regardless of who wins the presidency in November.
Republicans Are On the Wrong Side of History—and Everything Else!
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by Dan Brook
Republicans are conserving little beyond their own wealth, racism,
sexism, and homophobia, while eroding American democracy, health, and
the environment.
The Ride Gets Rougher: Gig Workers Organize Through a Pandemic
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by Bama Athreya
As companies around the world turn to contactless service, the
guidelines and protections gig workers win in the midst of coronavirus
will have an incredible impact in the future.
Appalachia’s Front Porch Network Is a Lifeline
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by Alison Stine
A traditional gathering place where the public meets the private is now
the critical point of contact for families isolated during the pandemic.
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Voting Rights Advocates Intervene to Stop Illegitimate Purge of Eligible Pennsylvania Voters
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More Than 50 National Organizations From Progressive, Anti-war, and Faith Communities Urge Presumptive Democratic Nominee Joe Biden and President Trump to Adopt a More Principled Foreign Policy
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Media Advisory: Press Call on the Need for Rent Cancellation in CARES 2
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Vote Climate U.S. PAC Urges Americans to Vote Climate and Vote-by-Mail
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Trump Economic Advisors Push "Work Til' You Die Plan" To Gut Social Security
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