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News & Views | 5/11/20

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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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Reporters wearing masks ask questions as President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 11, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Unbelievably ugly ending to Trump press conference."


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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.


After an industry front group argued that the "free market" is filling the gap for vulnerable people amid the coronavirus, Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP), a membership organization made up of medical school students and which advocates for Medicare for All, took issue and responded. (Photo: National Nurses United / flickr / cc)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It is not doing a good job. Never has. Never will."


ICE agents backed down from an attempt to deport three Haitians ill with the coronavirus on Monday.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Deporting people to Haiti in the midst of a global pandemic is both inhumane and unsafe."


Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden on Jan. 7, 2020 delivers remarks about the Trump administration's recent actions in Iraq at Current, Chelsea Piers in New York City.

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."


"There is a global struggle taking place of enormous consequence," said Progressive International on Monday. "Nothing less than the future of the planet is at stake." (Image: Progressive International)

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Nothing less than the future of the planet is at stake."


A detail of "The Campus Seen Through The Eyes of US Conservatives" created by Chelsea Saunders for Current Affairs. (Image: Chelsea Saunders)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Right-wing idiots didn't realize the joke is on them not the students."


President Donald Trump talks with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jared Kushner in Jerusalem, May 22, 2017.

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."


Journalists wearing masks document a protest in Chicago where demonstrators were calling on the Illinois governor to suspend rent and mortgage payments to help those who have lost their income due to the coronavirus on April 30, 2020.

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.



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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Perhaps it’s a rare opportunity to acknowledge that our nation’s public schools should not be left so alone to provide food, mental health care, and digital connectivity for our nation’s children. That should be, in a fashion almost unimaginable in America today, the role of the larger society. (Photo: Ryan Stanton/flickr/cc)

by Belle Chesler
Teaching across an abyss of silence.


Bush first said he wanted to attack Iraq because it was close to having a nuclear weapon. This was a damned lie. Iraq did not even have an active nuclear research program, and UN inspectors who had been on the ground there until 1998 so attested. (Photo: h/t Wikimedia Commons.)

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.


The townspeople of Chuao, Venezuela, being honored for their role in the capture of eight mercenaries.

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 always destructive and regressive, both aggressively anti-people and anti-planet, if not individually, then certainly as a party. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Dan Brook
Republicans are conserving little beyond their own wealth, racism, sexism, and homophobia, while eroding American democracy, health, and the environment.



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.



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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