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News & Views | 7/16/20

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Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who sparked the global Fridays for Future movement, joined weekly protests in Turin, Italy on Dec. 13, 2019. (Photo: Greta Thunberg/Twitter)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We need to face the full picture. We are facing an existential crisis, and this is a crisis that we can not buy, build, or invest our way out of."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"This Court's order prevents thousands of otherwise eligible voters from participating in Florida's primary election simply because they are poor," said Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent.



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The nextwork, said an MMFA researcher, "downplays the threat of the virus, dismisses the recommendations of public health officials, and misrepresents the scientific consensus on the disease."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday argued that schools should ignore Centers for Disease Control guidance on reopening.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Progressive lawmakers in New York on Thursday demanded that Gov. Andrew Cuomo impose a tax on the few wealthy New Yorkers who have benefited financially from the coronavirus pandemic in order to support immigrant workers who have been excluded from relief measures. 


Roger Garbey, from the Goldin Solar company, installs a solar panel system on the roof of a home a day after the Trump administration announced it will impose duties of as much as 30% on solar equipment made abroad on January 23, 2018 in Palmetto Bay, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
However, green groups and renewable advocates also expressed concern that another new FERC decision will hamper clean energy expansion.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
More than 200 delegates to the Democratic National Convention said Thursday that the party must support efforts to withdraw Israeli military aid if the further annexation of the West Bank moves forward.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's important to say this clearly and out loud: there is no crisis of Covid-19 litigation . It's made-up, it doesn't exist, it's a ploy to get businesses out of paying for compliance."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's hard to see how this step won't further sideline public health experts and obscure the severity of this crisis."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Shocker: Working people spend money when they have it."


A file photo shows the FSO Safer supertanker permanently anchored off Yemen's Red Sea coast, west of Hodeida.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The potential disaster would "directly affect millions of people in a country that is already enduring the world's largest humanitarian emergency."

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At more than $740 billion this year, the Pentagon budget is more than 100 times the budget of the CDC—and more than 1,800 times the U.S. contribution to the World Health Organization that the president has promised to cut. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Lindsay Koshgarian
Tanks and ships can’t save us from our greatest dangers, so let’s pay for the things that can.


Even before the pandemic, the exorbitant cost of higher education was holding our country back. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Margot Rathke
With youth unemployment and student debt skyrocketing, young people need free higher education.


Letting the $600 expire won’t just hurt UI recipients and their families, it would hurt millions more. (Photo: Andrew Cashin / MTA New York City Transit / flickr / cc)

by Heidi Shierholz
The millions who will remain jobless after the extra $600 is cut off will have no choice but to drastically cut their spending, causing a sharp decline in their living standards, an increase in poverty, and completely unnecessary suffering.


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addresses supporters during a campaign rally on March 8, 2020 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sanders covered his policy agendas for immigration, women's rights, healthcare and economic inequality. (Photo by Brittany Greeson/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
While Sanders continues to be the preeminent and most effective progressive voice in the country, the future—now that his presidential hopes are over—is truly up to us.


Yeah, yeah, global warming, but what’s that compared to profit? (Photo: @MoBetter_B/Twitter)

by Robert C. Koehler
The global movement to end racism must turn its attention to the world’s most vulnerable cultures—the indigenous people of Planet Earth—who are still enduring the forces of colonial genocide.


International travelers leave the Customs and Immigration area of Dulles International Airport (IAD) June 29, 2017, outside Washington, D.C., in Dulles, Virginia. (Photo: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)

by Nafisa Tanjeem
If the violence or discrimination doesn't seem as spectacular as the recent ICE directive to the U.S. liberal taste, it too often gets normalized and remains ignored.

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