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News & Views | 5/15/20

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Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing December 12, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Alex Edelman -Pool/Getty Images)

by Pramila Jayapal
Our response here in Congress must match the true scale of this devastating crisis. The Heroes Act—while it contains many important provisions—simply fails to do that.

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A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample from a resident to test for Covid-19 at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on May 13, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Countering a proposal from Democratic congressional leadership to subsidize private health insurers, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday led a group of progressive lawmakers in introducing a competing bill to leverage the existing Medicare payment infrastructure to cover all out-of pocket health costs for every person in the country during the coronavirus pandemic.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Esteemed medical journal The Lancet on Friday took an unusual step towards calling on American voters to remove President Donald Trump from office in November, condemning the Trump administration's "incoherent" response to the coronavirus pandemic.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This unprecedented crisis needs us to show leadership today, not tomorrow."


U.S. Space Force Senior Enlisted Advisor Roger Towberman, with President Donald Trump, presents the Space Force Flag on May 15, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"An actual quote by the sitting president of the United States."


Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) wears a face mask as he walks out of the House chamber on April 23, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is not the time to invest in dirty energy through federal petroleum purchases."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Environmental campaigners vowed to fight President Donald Trump's EPA Thursday after the agency said it would propose that the rocket-fuel chemical perchlorate does not need to be regulated, despite its links to cognitive damage in fetal and child development.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"President Trump's clear intent is to raise prices and force a crisis at the Post Office so that his political benefactors at the corporate shippers can increase their company profits at the expense of the people."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A sick and twisted sentiment... Inadequate PPE is not beautiful."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
An analysis of the paycheck guarantee proposal showed it would cost less than what Congress has already appropriated for its flawed small business loan program.


Education Secretary Betsy DeVos last week released new rules for how schools should handle sexual harassment and assault allegations.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The ACLU on Thursday filed suit to block provisions of the Department of Education's controversial new rules set to take effect in August governing how all U.S. schools, including higher education institutions, must handle sexual harassment and assault allegations involving students.

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by Diane Archer
There's only one group that benefits handsomely from the COBRA proposal: The health insurance industry.



by Jamie Henn
A more comfortable apartment. Cheaper electricity bills. Your stove cooks faster, your dishwasher washes cleaner, and the lightbulbs look great. Even the food is more delicious!


New Jersey Department of Corrections. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

by Michelle Chen
Advocates say the extreme restrictions on movement are punitive and dangerous.


Given Gates’s track record of expensive failures in the realm of education reform, this partnership is understandably drawing criticism from teachers and parents, as well as allegations from progressives that it is disaster capitalism at work. (Photo: Michael Cohen/Getty Images/The New York Times)

by Sarah Lahm
For education "disruptors" like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVos, COVID-19 isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity.


A street under quarantine in Iriga City, Philippines (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Amee Chew
Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte is using the pandemic to crush his opposition—and the U.S. is poised to arm him to the teeth.


If so much of our money hadn’t gone into the military-industrial complex, perhaps there would have been enough health-care workers to weather this crisis better. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Andrea Mazzarino
A military spouse's perspective on fighting this pandemic.

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