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News & Views | 5/19/20

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U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, deploy from Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina on January 1, 2020. (Photo: Capt. Robyn Haake / US ARMY / AFP via Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"America needs a coronavirus cure, not more war."

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Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sits across from Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-Mass.) during a roundtable discussion about refugee and human rights at the Oxfam America Boston headquarters on Oct. 1, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Hoyer does not actually have a problem with primary challengers, he has a problem with progressives."


"Despite its peaceful reputation, Canada is not acting as a benevolent player on the international stage," states an open letter published by activists, artists, and academics on Tuesday. (Image: Canadian Foreign Policy Institute)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Despite its peaceful reputation, Canada is not acting as a benevolent player on the international stage," warns open letter from activists, artists, and academics.


Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp attends his victory night party at the Classic Center on November 6, 2018 in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will be permitted to select the state's next Supreme Court Justiceafter canceling the special election that was set to take place Tuesday, the state's high court ruled.


Signs hang from the Meridian Heights apartment building in Northwest Washington on Monday, May 18, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The economy is currently approaching a knife edge in how recovery will proceed."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Human rights defenders in Hungary and around the world on Tuesday condemned legislation that was pushed through Parliament by the extreme right-wing ruling party, which would end legal recognition of transgender people.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We're in a situation where 35 million Americans have filed for unemployment. You're in charge of nearly half a trillion dollars... and you are leaving the American people behind."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is a phenomenally damning letter—of the president's own response. All of those early dates? Late December and January? Were known to U.S. officials and relayed to Trump. Who did nothing."


On the night before JPMorgan Chase's annual shareholders meeting, activists with Stop the Money Pipeline projected 30-foot-tall images of people holding protest signs with messages calling on CEO Jamie Dimon to "stop funding fossil fuels" on a wall across from his apartment in New York City.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Activist and shareholder frustrations with JPMorgan Chase's funding of global climate catastrophe were on full display Tuesday during the multinational investment bank's virtual Annual General Meeting.


President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House May 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Doug Mills—Pool/Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"There is no evidence of benefit and there is evidence of harm. Trump is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands. Let's not add to that number."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump has decimated the foundation of independent oversight within the executive branch."

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President Donald Trump hands out pens to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (L) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (C) after signing the CARES act, a $2 trillion rescue package to provide economic relief amid the coronavirus outbreak, at the Oval Office of the White House on March 27, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
Comparing Trump to Winston Churchill is a laugh riot.      


Last Friday, Trump notified Congress of the removal of Steve Linick, the State Department’s inspector general. This was reportedly done at Secretary Mike Pompeo’s urging to ensure a friendlier IG was at the helm so Pompeo could avoid accountability in at least two investigations Linick was pursuing into his actions. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Elizabeth Shackelford
A government without avenues for dissent is a dangerous authority indeed.


Musk’s thin-skinned, petulant narcissism bears an uncanny resemblance to Donald Trump, who last week tweeted, "California should let Tesla and @elonmusk open the plant, NOW."(Photo: flickr/cc)

by Robert Reich
Those in power must stop viewing the pandemic as an obstacle to personal ambition.


Near the Capitol in Washington, people attend a rally in 2019 to mark the 65th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that ended public school segregation and fueled the civil rights movement. (Photo:Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
The Supreme Court decision fueled the civil rights movement and the call for voting rights that are now under assault across the country.


In the U.S., a variety of evangelical religious leaders have failed the test of reasoned public policy in outrageous ways. (Photo: CC)

by Juan Cole
What evangelicals could learn from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam


In the midst of this pandemic, we must do everything possible to spare millions of animals from unnecessary suffering and death. (Photo: Peakpx)

by Joseph Winters
In the long term, we must not waste this opportunity to start mending our broken relationship with animals. This begins with the end of factory farming and the redirection of all government relief and future subsidies towards plant-based agriculture and food processing.

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