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A progressive advocacy group projected photos and stories of unemployed Americans onto a hotel building in Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday, August 24, 2020. (Photo: Unemployed Action/Twitter)

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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Medical staff in protective gear working at Lei Muk Shue care home in Hong Kong on August 23, 2020. (Photo: May James, Getty Images/AFP)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Researchers in Hong Kong say 33-year-old-man is asymptomatic; immunologists call case 'no cause for alarm.'



A woman walks past a protest banner demanding President Trump stop denying the science behind the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change set up in front of the Republican National Convention Headquarters on August 24, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Climate Power 2020)

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.



Resident Alyssa Medina reacts while looking over the charred remains of her family home during the LNU Lightning Complex fire in Vacaville, California on August 23, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

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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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.



Caribou graze on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

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."




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."



Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on August 24, 2020 in Jerusalem.

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.




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. 




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.




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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"Trump has been laying the groundwork to fix the 2020 election results ever since deceit and treachery helped produce victory for him in 2016," writes Ripton. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

by John Ripton
Trump is leveraging the pandemic to destroy any semblance of democracy left in presidential elections.



Demonstrators chant during the 2020 Women's March on January 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

by Erin L. Thompson
How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended



People participate in a "March on Billionaires" event on July 17, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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?



"Monopoly power and concentrated wealth do immense harm to the bottom third of the wealth spectrum," writes Buell. (Cartoon: Khalil Bendib/OtherWords)

by John Buell
We have returned to Franklin Roosevelt’s one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.



Residents of the Somerville and Medford communities protest outside of Tufts University President Anthony Monaco's house in Medford, MA on Aug. 18, 2020.  (Photo: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

by Michael Kelly
Focusing on individual students deflects blame from the context, policy, and institutional priorities that allow student gatherings to occur.




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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