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News & Views | 8/24/20
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'Responsible for National Collapse': RNC Greeted With Projections Condemning Republicans for Abandoning Jobless Workers
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's unbearable that the Republican Party and the Trump administration
are celebrating and campaigning while millions of families are suffering
because they refuse to extend the $600 benefit that was keeping us
afloat."
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First Confirmed Coronavirus Reinfection Raises Immunity Concerns
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by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Researchers in Hong Kong say 33-year-old-man is asymptomatic;
immunologists call case 'no cause for alarm.'
As GOP Officially Re-Nominates Trump, Poll Shows 68% in US Disapprove of President's Pandemic Response
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The U.S. now has over 5.7 million confirmed Covid-19 infections and
nearly 177,000 people have died nationwide.
'What Stage of Capitalism Is This?' Hedge Fund $3 Billion Richer Thanks to Wager on Wildfire Insurance Claims
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by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
With over 100,000 people displaced by wildfires raging across
California, Baupost Group collected more than $3 billion in July after
betting on insurance claims against embattled utility company PG&E.
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New York Attorney General Sues Trump Organization, Accusing President's Company of Misleading Lenders and Dodging Investigation
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed Monday that she filed a
lawsuit against President Donald Trump's business empire, calling on the
New York State Supreme Court to force the Trump Organization to comply
with seven subpoenas which would release thousands of
documents regarding the company's alleged misleading of lenders
regarding its assets.
Coalition Files Suit to Stop Trump's "Slapdash and Tragic Plan" to Drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"As our ancestors before us, we will stand and fight for our future
generations, for the Porcupine caribou herd, and the Gwich'in way of
life."
To Prevent 'Disinformation Cesspool,' Networks Urged to Run RNC Convention on One-Minute Delay
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by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
Progressive coalition says that delay would allow outlets "to actively
correct disinformation and prevent the American people from being lied
to in real time."
'Unprecedented and Wrong': Pompeo Slammed for Plans to Address GOP Convention From Jerusalem
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Critics accused the secretary of state of "using Judaism as a political
prop" and suggested his speech may violate the Hatch Act.
Public Health Experts Watch 'In Horror' as FDA Approves Narrowly Tested Covid-19 Treatment Amid Pressure From Trump
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Public health experts on Monday raised alarm over President Donald
Trump's overstating of the efficacy of convalescent plasma and his
suggestion that the Food and Drug Administration purposefully held up
approval of the potential Covid-19 treatment just before the agency
authorized its expanded use.
Progressives Call on Democrats to 'Do the Opposite' as Rahm Emanuel Advises Biden to Shun Medicare for All and Green New Deal
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by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The two policies are popular with the American public, but the
Democratic Party refused to embrace them in its 2020 platform.
Protests Break Out in Wisconsin After Police Shoot Black Man in the Back Multiple Times at Point-Blank Range
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said 29-year-old Jacob Blake's children
were in the car he was attempting to enter as police fired seven shots
at his back.
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Politicizing a Pandemic and Rigging an Election—Trump's 2020 Re-election Campaign
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by John Ripton
Trump is leveraging the pandemic to destroy any semblance of democracy
left in presidential elections.
The Banality of Evocation
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by Erin L. Thompson
How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn't Ended
It Is Time for a One-Time Pandemic Wealth Tax on Billionaires’ Windfall Gains
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by Chuck Collins, Frank Clemente
Will we enable billionaires to further concentrate wealth and power
during a pandemic, or will we tax their gains to improve the health and
welfare of our country?
The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers’ Life Expectancy
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by John Buell
We have returned to Franklin Roosevelt's one-third of a nation
ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
University Administrations Should Take Responsibility for Potential Campus Outbreaks
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by Michael Kelly
Focusing on individual students deflects blame from the context, policy,
and institutional priorities that allow student gatherings to occur.
Colleges are Still in Uncharted Territority
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by Jill Richardson
We've had the summer to prepare, but there are just no easy answers for
teaching during a global pandemic.
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350.org on police murdering Trayford Pellerin in Louisiana, shooting Jacob Blake in Wisconsin
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Battling Economic Crises, Tropical Storm Laura Slams Haiti and Dominican Republic
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