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Your Week in Review
Donald Trump, Resign Now for America’s Sake: This is No Time for a Dangerous, Law-breaking, Bungling, Ignorant Ship Captain
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by Ralph Nader
A Tale of Two Pandemics
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by Robert Reich
We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same
boat.
In a Class War—Like It or Not—the System Always Makes a Killing
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by Norman Solomon
While negative coverage of Donald Trump has been common due to his
handling of the pandemic, media outrage has been muted in relation to
the magnitude of the dying in our midst.
Getting a Covid-19 Education: From Race to the Top to a Plunge to the Bottom
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by Stan Karp
The pandemic and federal education policy.
Now Is the Time to Practice Beauty
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by Sandra Lubarsky
Beauty is intimately and evolutionarily connected to the urge to live.
It is the value associated most keenly with experiences that affirm our
vitality in relation to the vitality of other beings.
After Coronavirus Triggers 17% Emissions Drop, Experts Say Only 'Fundamental Structural Change' Can Save Humanity's Future
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After an analysis revealed Tuesday that lockdowns from the coronavirus
pandemic caused planet-heating emissions to drop in early April by an
unprecedented 17%, climate scientists and activists warned that progress
will quickly be erased if the world returns to business as usual and
called for systemic changes in the global energy, food, and
transportation sectors.
Poisons Mean Extinction: For Bees and Humanity
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by Vandana Shiva
Protecting bees is an ecological duty, pushing them to extinction is an
ecological crime. The threat to bees is a threat to humanity.
Never Have So Few Done So Much to Destroy America
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by Michael Winship
Comparing Trump to Winston Churchill is a laugh riot.
'Neither Ironic or Funny': Cell Data Reveals Right-Wing Lockdown Protesters May Be Spreading Covid-19
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The behavior we're seeing at protests carries a high risk of
infection," said Dr. Rob Davidson, an emergency care physician and
executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare.
'Save the News' Campaign Urges Immediate Covid-19 Relief Funds to Sustain Local Journalism in Time of Crisis
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In response to the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the news
industry—forcing tens of thousands of layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts
in recent months—the nation's largest labor union for media workers
launched a new "Save the News" campaign on Monday and urged Congress to
provide relief to an industry that should be considered an essential
service in a democracy.
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