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People prepare to board a bus for evacuation before the arrival of hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana on August 25, 2020. Storm Laura was upgraded to a destructive hurricane on August 25 and is forecast to make landfall along the Texas or Louisiana coasts on Wednesday night, after earlier causing 20 deaths in Haiti."Laura has become a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h), with higher gusts," the US National Hurricane Center reported. (Photo: Andrew Cabellero-Reynolds/AFP via G

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The Green New Deal is not radical," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Having a president in office who calls climate change a hoax—that's radical."

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Satellite imagery from NOAA taken August 26, 2020, shows Hurricane Laura in the Gulf of Mexico.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Little time remains to protect life and property," said the National Hurricane Center.


Federal officers shine flashlights from inside a closing garage door at the rear entrance to the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on July 31, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Sending federal law enforcement to Kenosha will only make matters worse. We don't need more police, we need to end police violence."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"For billionaires, this is a heads we win, tails you lose economy, boosted by Trump policies to funnel wealth to the top."

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A man on the ground was shot during the third day of protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25, 2020. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes warns that the danger posed by white militias has been ignored for far too long.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"Delinking health insurance with jobs should be a top policy priority."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Potentially exposing patients to Covid-19 risks in the interest of violating the constitutional right to seek an abortion, President Donald Trump on Wednesday petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a rule requiring patients to see a doctor in person before obtaining a medication used to provide abortion care.


The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has again ruled in favor of former Gloucester County High School student Gavin Grimm, a transgender man who was forced to use restrooms that corresponded with his "biological gender." (Photo: Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found that policies segregating trans students from their peers are unconstitutional.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Appealing to Home Depot and Lowe's to be part of the solution to environmental and public health hazards, rather than a contributor to them, more than 65 advocacy groups on Wednesday called on the home improvement giants to take the herbicide Roundup off their shelves and online stores.


The Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica collapsed due to climate change in 2002 (Photo:USGS/NASA/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Massive southern shelves split by climate-induced hydofracturing can collapse in hours—or even minutes—fueling dangerous sea level rise and coastal flooding.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Progressives on Tuesday raised alarm over new poll results from CBS News, which suggested that the Democratic Party's courting of moderate Republican votes and sidelining of broadly popular progressive proposals has not so far resulted in a groundswell of support for Joe Biden outside the party.

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"While we benefit from a highly sophisticated, technically advanced pharmaceutical industry," writes Brown, "that same industry systematically—and often catastrophically—fails to meet the needs of our society, our health, and our economy." (Photo: Floris Van Cauwelaert/flickr/cc)

by Dana Brown
Now is the time to support and expand the public production of pharmaceuticals and ensure that medicines are available to all who need them.


President Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a 2016 campaign rally at Fountain Park in Fountain Hills, Arizona. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr/cc)

by Michael Winship
The GOP convention reminds us that this freakshow of mayhem can exhaust and distract from the mission at hand.


A protestor interrupts Democratic presidential candidate, former vice President Joe Biden during a town hall on November 21, 2019 in Greenwood, South Carolina. (Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

by Ira Allen
Voting for Biden is worthwhile because it's a vote against somebody who's actively trying to destroy all the good or even semi-okay parts of the government. Including voting itself. And we'll need those bits to still exist, including voting, if we ever hope to have a real democracy. That's it. That...


Oil sludge from one of the hundreds of waste pits that Chevron left in the Ecuadorean Amazon. (Photo: via Indian Country News)

by Chris Hedges
Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable find the institutions of power unite to crucify them.


People gather to stage a protest called "Normalization is betrayal" against the agreement between United Arab Emirates' (UAE) and Israel to deal normalization of relations after a call of Palestinian groups, at Turmus Ayya town in Ramallah, West Bank on August 15, 2020. (Photo: Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Mel Gurtov
Goodbye peace plan and any prospect of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations over a two-state solution.

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