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News & Views | 8/7/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump and Republicans appear ready to walk away from the negotiating table to do unworkable, weak, and narrow executive orders that barely scratch the surface of what is needed."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They are delaying Social Security checks and other mail and potentially disenfranchising millions of voters."


essential worker holds sign

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"There is no way around it: getting the economy back on track means controlling the pandemic."


A demonstrator holds a placard reading "time is running out" during a global youth climate action strike in Barcelona, on September 27, 2019 at the end of a global climate change week.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We still need far more serious measures to make a difference—we need structural change."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"If you're a Democratic Party leader and you're still invested in oil and gas it’s just a problem."


Public health workers, doctors, and nurses protest over lack of sick pay and personal protective equipment outside a hospital in the Bronx on April 17, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It is worth fighting for a system that puts public health ahead of profits: Medicare for All," said a doctor touting Canadian system.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Handing down a ruling dismissing a civil lawsuit which alleged a police officer violated a Black man's Fourth Amendment rights during a traffic stop in 2013, a federal judge in Mississippi made clear that he sided with the plaintiff—and demanded the U.S. Supreme Court overturn qualified immunity. 



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Elliott Abrams has made a career of lying and committing criminal acts that have led to the death and suffering of innocent people from Guatemala to Iraq."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"You want Bill Clinton to speak but maybe not AOC. Okay, dummies."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The progressive movement is undeniable!" Bradshaw said following her win. "Thank you all so much for your support and this victory. It's time to put hardworking people first. Onward."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The formation was the final survivor of its kind in the nation's Arctic

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Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on stage during the Democratic presidential debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
Useful coverage would lay out each potential pick’s background and qualifications. While you certainly can find that if you look hard enough, many journalists seem quite content to avoid content.


"One of the increasingly popular survival mechanisms for struggling universities is to succumb to the eLearning market," write Tanjeem and Illuzzi. (Photo: iStock/Getty Images)

by Nafisa Tanjeem, Michael J. Illuzzi
We should think critically about whether the emergency response at a moment of crisis is being used to justify the questionable collaboration of neoliberal universities with a billion-dollar eLearning industry that prioritizes profit over learning.


This combination of file photos shows Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. (Photo: DSK/AFP via Getty Images)

by Ralph Nader
People have the right to know how CEOs and major corporations do on the "Hedonistic Index" of greed and power.


"Federal policymakers need to act now to reinstate the $600 unemployment insurance benefits to the 30+ million workers who are desperately trying to make ends meet," writes Gould in response to Friday's latest job numbers. "And, those benefits are supporting a huge amount of spending, which means, with it, the loss of about five million jobs." (Photo: Getty Images)

by Elise Gould
Job gains in the United States slowed considerably in July.


Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) enters a Senators Only elevator before attending the Weekly Senate Policy Luncheon on June 25, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

by Mike Lofgren
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas delivers a coded message about slavery.


A young person's solemn face appears in front of the 2011 Hiroshima Lantern Festival marking the atomic bomb. (Photo: Richard Riley/flickr/cc)

by Robert Freeman
We cannot change what happened, neither the heinous military nor the tragic moral stains that indelibly mark its occurrence. But we can transcend it, rise above it, by naming it, acknowledging it, repudiating it, and committing ourselves to a greater expression of the people and society we imagine...

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