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Emergency Medical Service workers unload a patient out of their ambulance at the Cobble Hill Health Center on April 18, 2020 in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo: Justin Heiman/Getty Images)

by Alex Lawson
The president is desperate to deflect from the truth: Over 54,000 nursing home residents and workers are dead. Those deaths were preventable. Their deaths are his fault.

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ayanna Pressley joined 1,700 people Tuesday evening to launch Renew New England, a coalition of grassroots volunteers and advocates fighting to elect candidates who are committed to a rapid shift to renewable infrastructure and energy. 


U.S. Senate candidates Andrew Romanoff of Colorado and Charles Booker of Kentucky were defeated in Democratic primary races in June.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"These were not races that progressives could afford to sit out, but too many organizations did."


James Holt and Nicole Smith-Holt held a picture of their son Alec—who died in 2017 at age 26 after rationing his insulin—at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul after state representatives passed the Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act on April 14, 2020. (Photo: John Autey/MediaNews Group/St. Paul Pioneer Press via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The law is named for Alec Smith, an uninsured 26-year-old who died in 2017 after rationing his insulin.

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A koala named Pete from Pappinbarra at The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital on November 29, 2019 in Port Macquarie, Australia.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"If urgent action isn't taken now, NSW is taking a chainsaw to the last koala tree in the bush."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In response to the national outrage, armored vehicles, assault weapons, and military gear once again filled our streets and communities, turning them into war zones."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's a very concerning precedent because if we see the vaccine coming from a U.S. company, we're likely to see the same type of behavior and hoarding by the U.S. and other developed countries."


Demonstrators take part in a rally as Palestinians call for a 'day of rage' to protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in Gaza City July 1, 2020. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The Palestinian struggle today is not just about fighting annexation, which we must continue to do. It is about dismantling the entire system of apartheid."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Voters are tired of politicians ignoring the problem or worse, trying to take their healthcare away, and they're rejecting that approach in even the deepest of red states."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"National security," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, "means doing everything we can to improve the lives of our people, many of whom have been abandoned by our government decade after decade."


Mount Rushmore National Memorial on April 23, 2020, in Keystone, South Dakota. (Photo: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Nothing stands as a greater reminder to the Great Sioux Nation of a country that cannot keep a promise or treaty than the faces carved into our sacred land on what the United States calls Mount Rushmore."

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This militarism at home is linked inextricably to U.S. militarism abroad. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Phyllis Bennis
We need to end systemic racism and the militarism that makes it even deadlier—from Kabul to Atlanta and Baghdad to Minneapolis.


It’s tempting for progressive Kentuckians to want to check out of this election, as many of us have after the corporate wing of the Democratic Party threw a wet blanket on Bernie Sanders’ post-Nevada momentum to circle its wagons around Joe Biden. (Photo: @Booker4KY/Twitter)

by Carl Gibson
Only by ousting obstructionists like McConnell and freeing the Senate from Republican control can a progressive vision be achieved.


President Donald J. Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing on Marine One on Saturday, June 20, 2020 in Washington DC. President Trump is scheduled to hold his first campaign rally since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Photo: Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
The president's opponents are limited because they believe in democracy. Trump has no limits because he doesn't.


We will not rescue our country from the iron grip of the military-industrial complex by picking the lesser evil and hoping for the best. (Photo: CD/CC BY 2.0)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Building a new anti-war movement that is connected to the domestic anti-police struggle is the only thing that can rein in US militarism.



by Michael Winship
Now that the pandemic is raging in the south and west, Trump’s governors finally are face-to-face with reality. Wear your damn mask.


Medical staff wearing full PPE clean a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on June 30, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have spiked since Texas reopened, pushing intensive-care wards to full capacity and sparking concerns about a surge in fatalities as the virus spreads. (Photo: Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

by Jim Hightower
With nearly 130,00 US deaths and 2.6 million infections—gosh, what to do now? Of course! Let's take away the health care coverage of some 23 million Americans!

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