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A home burns as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 9, 2018 in Magalia, California. Fueled by high winds and low humidity, the rapidly spreading Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise and has quickly charred 70,000 acres and has destroyed numerous homes and businesses in a matter of hours. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Hank Edson
On this fire season, the last one, and the fire seasons to come.

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Two public relations officials were dismissed from their positions at the Food and Drug Administration Friday following Commissioner Stephen Hahn's decision to walk back his claims about convalescent plasma as a treatment for Covid-19.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You don't get to repeatedly defy congressional subpoenas and undermine the Constitution with no consequences," said Rep. Ilhan Omar.


Activists gather outside of the Alliance Center in Denver across the street from a public hearing by the Council on Environmental Quality's proposed update to NEPA Regulations on February 11, 2020. (Photo: Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This administration's insidious attack on one of our most important environmental laws is an attack on the democratic process itself."

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Convicted of an all-white jury for a rape and burglary he did not commit, Ronnie Long, 64, was released from a North Carolina prison on Thursday. (Photo: Democracy Now/Creative Commons)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Sentenced to life behind bars for a rape he did not commit, Long's attorneys learned in 2015 that investigators withheld exculpatory evidence proving his innocence.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"Don't give into something that hasn't happened. Keep pushing, keep working."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"This is Covid denial on another level entirely."


A full-page ad in the New York Times was signed by more than 600 groups representing over half of Jewish people in the U.S. (Image: Bend the Arc: Jewish Action)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"By supporting this movement, we can build a country that fulfills the promise of freedom, unity, and safety for all of us, no exceptions."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The White House continues to disregard the needs of the American people as the coronavirus crisis devastates lives and livelihoods."


Police officers stand guard inside of a fenced area that surrounds several government buildings on August 27, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers approved a request for an additional 500 National Guard troops to be deployed into Wisconsin on August 26. Many arrests have been made with the additional presence of law enforcement. (Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
When traveling from out of state with an AR-15 is not treated as a crime, but "filling up gas cans for your food truck" leads to immediate arrest.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is the most important election in history. And you are the most dangerous president in the history of our country. That's why you're going to lose," said Sen. Bernie Sanders during Trump's remarks.

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Palestinian demonstrators burn pictures of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest against a US-brokered deal between Israel and the UAE to normalize relations, in the northern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Jabalia, on August 15, 2020. (Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

by Phyllis Bennis
The U.S.-brokered pact makes no pretense of peace for Palestinians. Instead, it sharpens a regional coalition against Iran.


A SWAT police officer watches as demonstrators protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake outside the Kenosha County Courthouse on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Photo: Joshua Lott for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Peter Gowan
A little-known federal program dumps military equipment on local police forces. We need to end it.


A polling worker carries 2020 presidential primary ballots that were dropped off at a post office and brought to a government center to be processed and counted at the Stamford Government Center on August 11, 2020 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Jennifer Selin
The November election is a little over two months away. Will states be able to bear the burden?


"America’s philanthropic system is centered on the needs of the rich, not the needy, by design," writes Jenkins. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Alexi Jenkins
The nonprofit and for-profit sectors operate in tandem in the furtherance of the brutal concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, at the expense of the many.


"The normalization of rhetoric from an increasingly emboldened radical right in the past decade risks poisoning public discourse, damaging community relations, and weakening liberal democracy itself," concludes the CARR report. (Photo: Getty)

by Archie Henderson
We should not assume that the radical right will collapse under the weight of its many internal conflicts and contradictions.


"Biden’s record on foreign policy is checkered," writes Erlich. "As a leading member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for many years, he supported the US occupations of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003." (Photo: Ron Adar / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

by Reese Erlich
An important behind-the-scenes battle is being fought over the Democratic nominee’s conservative positions.

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