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News & Views | 8/3/20

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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) arrives at the Senate chamber as the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump continues at the U.S. Capitol on January 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by John Buell
Republicans are always destructive and regressive, both aggressively anti-people and anti-planet, if not individually, then certainly as a party.

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Donald Trump with his ex-wife, Ivana, and his father Fred in 1988. (Photo: Jeffrey Asher/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This has to be how the story ends, right? With Trump going down for 'illegally inflating his net worth'?"



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Public health experts on Monday raised alarm over the White House's aggressive push to rush a Covid-19 vaccine into production, an effort which critics say has been apparent since the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
Mandating an increase of giving from charitable funds, says one advocate, "would move an estimated $200 billion off the sidelines and into front-line working charities without increasing taxes or adding to the deficit."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"One hundred fifty thousand coronavirus deaths, 30 million without an unemployment lifeline, five million newly uninsured, 14 million children going hungry. But Trump is too busy playing golf and boasting about the stock market."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump and his allies have always been motivated by partisanship, even at the expense of American lives."



by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"When a nominee is clearly unfit for a position, it is the Senate's constitutional and moral duty to reject the nomination."


Educators hold up signs during a rally for healthy and safe working and learning conditions in public schools on July 30, 2020 in Malden, Massachusetts. (Photo: Matt Stone/ MediaNews Group/Boston Herald/via Getty images)

by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
Widespread concern comes as data predicts inevitable Covid-19 spread in schools and communities that do open for in-person instruction and amid outbreaks in schools that have already re-opened.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Inflicting suffering on tens of millions of Americans by cutting unemployment benefits because of an anecdotal 'some cases' argument that has been refuted again and again is a stupid way to make policy."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Blaming the Trump administration's "irresponsible actions" for the ongoing spread of Covid-19 in immigration detention centers, the International Rescue Committee demanded that people be released from detention immediately to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We've seen a pretty huge transformation in Biden's climate plan," said Varshini Prakash, co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise Movement.

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Schoolchildren wearing protective mouth masks and face shields attend a course in a classroom at Claude Debussy college in Angers, western France, on May 18, 2020 after the country eased Covid-19 lockdown measures. (Photo: Damien Meyer/AFP via Getty Images)

by Steven Singer
We need to make it possible for parents to stay home with their children. Now.


President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the briefing room at the White House on April 16, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Karen Greenberg
All told, the U.S. president been a perfect model in deflecting all responsibility, even as the death toll soared over 150,000 with more than four million cases reported nationwide and no end in sight.


A homeless man sleeps under an American Flag blanket on a park bench on September 10, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Paul Buchheit
Being poor is much more than the lack of money and possessions.


"The sad truth is that 30 years after the supposed end of the Cold War," write Benjamin and Davies, " the U.S. military-industrial complex has failed to reimagine itself in anything but Cold War terms, and its 'New' Cold War is just a revival of the old Cold War that it spent the last three decades telling us it already won." (Image: CodePink)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China, and instead work with all our neighbors on this small planet.



by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev Dr Liz Theoharis
Our government's abandonment of the people is sin of the highest order.



by Miles Mogulescu
If we want to win, we can't let Trump provoke us into violence.

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