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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We cannot sit by and allow corporations, billionaires, and demagogues to destroy the Fourth Estate, nor can we allow them to replace serious reporting with infotainment and propaganda."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
As climate activist Greta Thunberg neared the United States on a boat which set sail from Britain on August 14, the global climate action movement ramped up efforts to call people of all ages to join in the climate strike which the 16-year-old Swedish student helped to inspire.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We're putting our bodies and our lives on the line to try to save our territories."


Joe Biden speaking at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton at a September 27, 2016 rally at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, PA

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is easily the cruelest, dirtiest, and most manipulative thing Joe Biden has done so far."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is a new low for Trump. The administration is now literally deporting kids with cancer."


Harvard's Widener Library, pictured in 2007. A Palestinian student with a full scholarship to the storied university had his visa canceled Friday for friends' social media posts deemed critical of the U.S.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is a move so perverse, so grotesque as to defy explanation."


Nina Turner attends Bernie Sanders Grass-Roots Fundraiser In Hollywood at The Montalban on July 25, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"There is a difference between candidates running just to become president and having a presidential candidate that says I am running not just for me to become the president of the United States, but to movement build—that's Senator Bernie Sanders."

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Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama/Greenpeace.)

by Leila Salazar-López, Lindsey Allen
Global solidarity with Brazil's indigenous and environmental movements can make the difference at this critical moment.


Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that can damage nearly every organ and system in the human body. (Photo: Joyce Zhu / Flintwaterstudy.org)

by Mekela Panditharatne
Federal law should not greenlight weak standards for lead in water. The Lead and Copper Rule needs bold and far-reaching change.


Karina Cardoso and Linda Nevarez hold their cellphone flashlights up during an Aug. 4 vigil in El Paso for the victims of the Walmart shooting. (Photo: Lola Gomez/American-Statesman)

by Jesse Jackson
The federal government can largely stamp out domestic terrorism—or fan the flames.


Protected from consequences by death as his money protected him in life, David Koch is dead. (Photo: Phelan M Ebenhack/AP/Shutterstock)

by Sarah Jones
David Koch died before he could reap the full bounty of his works. We will not be so lucky. His legacy is poisoned water and dirty air, decimated unions, and Donald Trump.


Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) union workers with SEIU Local 1021 hold signs as they picket in front of the Lake Merritt station on July 2, 2013 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Rachel M. Cohen
While the report’s focus on public investment, good jobs and justice shares much in common with the federal Green New Deal resolution introduced in February, it also stands in tension with environmentalists who demand the U.S. work to transition more quickly away from oil, coal and natural gas.


John Hickenlooper Second 2020 Democratic Party Presidential Debate, Day 1, Detroit, USA - 30 Jul 2019 (Photo: Matt Baron/Shutterstock)

by Matt Taibbi
What Lieberman was to antiwar Democrats, Colorado’s Hickenlooper is to environmentalists.

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