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News & Views | 8/4/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Anyone who believes in the right to vote should enthusiastically embrace voting by mail. Without it, tens of millions of voters will be denied the opportunity to safely exercise their cherished right to vote."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act says what we all know to be true: that nerve agents have no place on our food, in our workplaces, and in our communities."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
New legislation put forward by Sens. Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders on Tuesday would curb the use of facial recognition software by corporations, helping to slow the spread of "abusive" surveillance, according to leading privacy advocates.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If investors or Kodak employees were trading based on the unauthorized disclosure or discussion of nonpublic information, then it would appear to be a clear violation of securities law. The SEC should hold them accountable."


A protester is seen during a climate change demonstration holding a placard that says, 'There Is No Planet B.'

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We must not miss this opportunity to rebuild the economy to fulfill our vision of a just and livable world."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
In a report titled, "The World is Watching," Amnesty International USA revealed on Tuesday that U.S. police violated the human rights of protesters, medics, journalists, and other people at least 125 times in the first weeks of the current racial justice uprising. 



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The findings from the Knight Foundation and Gallup suggest lack of trust in news media has far-reaching effects.


Black Lives Matter, United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the Democratic Socialists of America, and other groups gathered on the National Day of Resistance to protest against reopening of schools and for police-free schools.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"I do not want to be an experiment."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We are studying the risk of death faced by our own children."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's not enough for abortion to be legal. It must also be affordable and available to all people, however much money they have or however they get their insurance."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you wrote this as grotesque farce" for a movie script, wrote actor and progressive activist John Cusack, "no one would believe it."

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"Our Masks for All legislation will instruct the Trump administration to utilize the Defense Production Act to produce and deliver three high-quality, reusable masks to every person in the country via the U.S. postal system," explains Sanders. "The masks would also be made available free at testing sites, post offices and pharmacies, as well as homeless shelters, jails, detention centers and other congregate-care settings." (Photo: Lucy Lambriex/iStock/via Getty Images)

by Bernie Sanders
The coronavirus pandemic is raging out of control under Trump's leadership, but there are common sense solutions we must urgently implement.


President Donald Trump, writes Conniff, "is so godawful, you would think more Republicans would be jumping ship already. But apart from Mitt Romney, Charlie Sykes, and a handful of other principled conservatives, GOP politicians appear to be willing to go all the way to the bottom with their epic failure of a president." (Photo: DonkeyHotey/flickr/cc)

by Ruth Conniff
What the Republican collapse fueled by the president means for the nation.



by Thom Hartmann
The personal and political anger over the coronavirus dead is going to manifest itself even beyond the nation's obituary pages.


Cmdr. R.J. Zamberlan, the commanding officer of the Navy's newest littoral combat ship, USS Kansas City (LCS 22), reads his orders during the ship’s commissioning ceremony on June 20, 2020 in San Diego, California. (Photo: US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alex Corona)

by Andrea Mazzarino
My husband, in other words, is now unnecessarily risking his own and his family’s exposure to a virus that has to date claimed more than 150,000 American lives—already more than eight times higher than the number of Americans who died in both the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the endless wars in Iraq...


Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies on Capitol Hill on July 31, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Pool/Getty Images)

by Anita Desikan


The Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Bull Run, Va. July 21st 1861, Currier and Ives. (Drawing: Library of Congress)

by Bill Moyers, Heather Cox Richardson
Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West.

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