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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Documents obtained by a watchdog group reveal that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin met with the Postal Service Board of Governors in February "to discuss the search for a new postmaster general."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Six years after residents in Flint, Michigan began relying on their polluted local river as a drinking water source at the behest of Republican state officials looking to save money, the state announced details of an historic $600 million settlement, reached after 18 months of negotiations. 



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The district attorney of Manhattan can obtain President Donald Trump's tax records, according to a federal judge who ruled Thursday that the president's claims that a subpoena for the documents was issued "in bad faith."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"What JPMorgan Chase wants to do looks like another attempt for big banks and corporations to privatize our public infrastructure so their shareholders gain while working families suffer."

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Incumbent Sen. Ed Markey debates challenger Rep. Joe Kennedy III in the final debate leading up to the September 1 primary election at WCVB Channel 5 studios in Needham, Massachusetts on August 18, 2020. (Photo: Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Progressives accused the House speaker of "proving she's not, in fact, against Dems primarying Dems, as long as it's to remove anyone who advances halfway progressive ideas."



by Jake Johnson and Andrea Germanos, staff writers
"Peace is not an arms deal to be made between anti-democratic regimes. It must be made between peoples."


A person files an application for unemployment benefits on April 16, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Some economists reiterated calls for extending the $600 weekly boost that's opposed by Trump and congressional Republicans.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This deserves a full, independent investigation," said the California Democrat.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"Weaponizing the charge of 'anti-Semitism' to silence criticism of Israel is despicable," said activist Ady Barkan.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our economic system has been rigged to give bailouts to billionaires and kick dirt in the face of everyone else. But we can build a thriving economy by investing in families and fixing what's broken."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The president's comments about the group labeled by the FBI as a domestic terrorism threat came on the same day Facebook restricted thousands of QAnon accounts.

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by Dana Brown, Alex Lawson, Christopher Morten, Fran Quigley
By taking the vaccine industry into full public ownership, we can provide an internationalized response to this and future pandemics that properly recognizes vaccines as a global public good.


"What was missing—from the national convention, from the halls of Congress, from the party as a whole—was any official stance against war. By which I mean, today’s wars," writes Koehler. (Screenshot/ Democratic National Convention - August 17, 2020)

by Robert C. Koehler
The party itself still stands firmly in the middle of nowhere.


"If Joe Biden ignores, demoralizes or actively alienates his progressive base, he could pave the way for another Donald Trump victory," writes the authors. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
He could pave the way for another Donald Trump victory in the “the most crucial election in human history.”


A USPS postal worker wears a face mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic in on July 21, 2020 in El Centro, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Sarah Anderson
In the face of a historic public outcry, the postmaster general has promised to stop sabotaging essential services—temporarily.


A kid wears a face mask and a backpack in Kips Bay as the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on August 15, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

by Belle Chesler
It’s as if they want America's schools to fail.


Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh in support of Democratic congressional candidate Conor Lamb (3rd L) Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at the Union Carpenters Training Center in Pittsburgh. (Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
   

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