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News & Views | 8/13/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is crazy by any standard. The president of the United States is actively trying to sabotage the election."

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A gas flare is seen at an oil well site on outside Williston, North Dakota. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Even for the Trump administration, this is an appalling new low."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The Trump administration hit upon the Nobel Peace Prize-winning idea that you can supposedly solve the Israel-Palestine conflict by pretending Palestinians don't exist."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Thanks to the high court's decision, said one voting rights advocate, "hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island voters will be able to safely cast their ballots without risking their health."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Donald Trump knows that if the people are heard in November, he and Republicans up and down the ballot will lose," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "This is what we're up against—and this is why we have to fight back with all we've got."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I will be voting 'No' on the platform because when we say that healthcare is a human right," says the progressive congressman from California, "we must truly mean it—and fight for it."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As millions of Americans grapple with the consequences of federal lawmakers' failure to extend the $600 weekly unemployment benefit credited with temporarily lifting the poorest families out of poverty this spring, experts warned Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic could directly lead to a rise in suicides, drug overdoses, and despair across the country.


Protesters are seen marching upon the Tennessee State Capitol building on June 04, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Bonus penalty for exercising your protest rights in an unapproved manner: you lose your voting rights."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
As competing bills aimed at privacy rights make their way through Congress, employers mull the use of apps to quell the spread of Coronavirus in the workplace.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
Following what pro-democracy advocates say was a rigged election, world leaders condemn the violence against protestors and the press, and the authoritarian regime's main opponent has fled the country.


A "commitment to sustaining peace is more urgent than ever," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Covid-19 is a human tragedy, but we can mitigate the impacts by the choices we make."

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., is interviewed by CQ Roll Call in his Cannon Building office on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

by Ro Khanna
History teaches us that the Democratic Party has sometimes faced an issue so great that it alone should be the yardstick for measuring the wisdom of voting for or against the platform. This is one of those times. And Medicare for All is that issue.


"The national reckoning on racial injustice and police violence is long overdue," writes the author. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith
Trump's federal troops sow disorder wherever they're deployed. That's the point.


In this photo illustration, President Donald J. Trump shakes hands with Former vice president Joe Biden as Former president Barack Obama looks on at the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2017. (Photo:Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Andrew Bacevich
If he seriously intends to be more than a relic of pre-Trump liberal centrism, how exactly should President Biden go about making his mark?


In March of 1946, eight months after the atomic bomb was dropped, the city of Hiroshima stood in ruins. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

by Robert C. Koehler
The essential paradox of disarmament is that nuclear power, and thus nuclear bombs, having been invented, will never go away.


"Trump is down in the polls, and desperate times call for desperate measures," writes Feffer. "It wouldn’t be the first time that Donald Trump rolled the dice in one last bid for the jackpot." (Photo: Shutterstock)

by John Feffer
Trump shrugged at 150,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths. Who’s to say he’s above starting a fight with China or Iran?


"Welcoming the efforts, and the support, of 'Never Trump' Republicans, does not mean celebrating their moral rectitude or embracing their policy positions or even liking them as people," writes Isaac. "It means welcoming their willingness to support a strong Democratic victory in November, and acknowledging, as I argued back in January, that while they have an agenda of their own, they are allies in the defense of democracy." (Photo: AP/Getty/Salon)

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
Might some of the Republican 'Never Trumpers' move to the Democratic Party and seek to influence it? Yes. Is this nefarious? No. It is politics. Politics at a time of great instability and danger.

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