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News & Views | 8/12/20

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Mail clerks sort packages at a USPS Processing and Distribution Center on Thursday, May 14, 2020 in City of Industry, California. (Photo: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The removal of key equipment from Post Offices should be viewed as nothing less than "sabotage," said one observer.

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A Yemeni boy rides a bike on rubble of houses destroyed in a recent airstrike carried out by warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition, on May 23, 2019 in Sana'a, Yemen.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"What sort of emergency makes itself known a few months in advance and can be resolved with weapons delivered years later?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A once-in-a-century pandemic is no time to enact changes that threaten service reliability and transparency."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A Massachusetts law professor on Wednesday retracted an earlier statement about Holyoke, Mass. mayor and progressive U.S. House candidate Alex Morse, who came under attack last weekend regarding consensual sexual relationships he allegedly had with college students.


Sand hill Cranes, Grus canadensis, at roosting pond at dusk Bosque del Apache, New Mexico. (Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Critics charge that the administration's policy on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act "was nothing more than a cruel, bird-killing gift to polluters."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
A state-level effort to put redistricting in the hands of the people amid the pandemic was set back after the nation's highest court intervened.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
While study not yet peer-reviewed, one expert said: "If this isn’t a smoking gun, then I don’t know what is."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
International children's aid agency UNICEF on Wednesday announced its first permanent initiative focused on aiding children in the U.S., after decades of focusing mainly on supporting young people in developing countries affected by extreme poverty, war, and disease.


2020 Democratic Presidential hopeful Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks at a campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa on August 12, 2019. (Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Let's do our part to end this era of chaos and defeat Republicans up and down the ballot. Then, let's turn up to make a Biden-Harris administration lay the groundwork for a Green New Deal."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Biden's selection of the California senator comes after Wall Street executives made clear that they would prefer "almost anyone" but Sen. Elizabeth Warren.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In Minnesota, we know that organized people will always beat organized money. Despite outside efforts to defeat us, we once again broke turnout records. Despite the attacks, our support has only grown."

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Democratic presidential hopefuls former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speak during the second round of the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by CNN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on July 31, 2019. (Photo: Jim Waton/AFP/Getty Images)

by Natalie Shure
If Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris is a "weather vane," then it's up to progressives to change the weather.


Kamala Harris addresses the media about migrant children in front of a detention center in Homestead, Florida on June 28, 2019 (Photo: Rhona Wise / AFP / Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are elected, they'll still be influenced by the powerful forces that have shaped their careers. All the more reason progressives cannot sit this one out.


"In March," Hightower explains, President Donald Trump "personally killed a bipartisan provision in the national economic rescue package that would've assured continuous delivery of our mail. Then, in May, he installed one of his partisan mega donors as postmaster general. And the postmaster is now sabotaging delivery times by arbitrarily slashing the hours of postal workers." (Image: via US Mail Not for Sale)

by Jim Hightower
And that means fighting for our right to vote.


"In the middle of the worst public health crisis in more than a century," writes Reich, Trump's Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is "jeopardizing the safety of our students, teachers, parents, bus drivers, and custodians, while rerouting desperately needed public school funds towards the private schools she’s always championed." (Image: Inequality Media)

by Robert Reich
Remember, when you vote against Trump this November—you're voting against this person, too.


The truth is that the USPS’s problems were largely created by Congress. (Photo: Ron Doke/Flickr/cc)

by Michael Hiltzik
Asked to defend his attacks on the U.S. Postal Service, Trump has just lied about them.


A protester dressed as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and another dressed as U.S. President Donald Trump stand outside the White House in the wake of the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on October 19, 2018. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Gabe Murphy
When the unlawful killing of political enemies on foreign soil could refer to President Trump's unlawful assassination of an Iranian general just as easily as it could refer to Mohammad bin Salman ordering hits on Khashoggi and Dr. Aljabri, it's time to think about what our foreign policy has...

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