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News & Views | 9/3/19

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devastation in the bahamas

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the National Hurricane Center announced Tuesday that Hurricane Dorian's core was "finally moving away from Grand Bahama Island," toward the Southeastern U.S. coast, footage of the storm's devastation flooded the internet alongside calls for governments and the news media to recognize the here-...

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Then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), ranking Democrat on Senate Foreign Relations, during a February 2003 interview in his office about the possibility of war with Iraq.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Biden claiming to have been against the Iraq War from the start is arguably the most outlandish lie any Democrat has told this campaign."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
State officials have two weeks to redraw North Carolina's district map following a unanimous ruling by a state court, which found that Republicans in the state were guilty of partisan gerrymandering.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You have been an integral part of the struggle to make clear that healthcare is a human right," Sanders told Barkan




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Five years into the conflict, violations against Yemeni civilians continue unabated, with total disregard for the plight of the people and a lack of international action to hold parties to the conflict accountable."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Leading gun control groups praised Walmart Tuesday after the company announced its stores would no longer sell certain firearm ammunition and would reduce its gun sales, citing recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio—but the applause came with keen awareness that small steps by corporations won't stop gun violence and that lawmakers must take responsibility for the epidemic.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Intimidating reporters to influence coverage is a tactic of dictators and has no place here," said Sen. Jeff Merkley


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Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the atmosphere of our world is changing rapidly, and that atmospheric change is producing record heat. (Photo: YES! illustration by Jennifer Luxton)

by Bill McKibben
"It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us."



The Trump administration has quietly proposed rolling back emissions standards for coal- and oil-generated power plants in a move that could alter how and whether the government monitors and controls air and water pollution. (Photo: Dreamstime/TNS)

by Jesse Jackson
President Donald Trump not only denies the threat posed by manmade climate change, he consciously, purposefully and perversely works to accelerate it.



When Greta told the UN that “real power belongs to the people”, she couldn’t have known the extent to which that sentiment would define the next year of climate activism. (Photo: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

by Sophie Yeo
Climate activism isn’t new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in attention devoted to the subject.



"The goal must be to address head on the anger, disappointment, alienation, and loss of control of those who feel left out of the national discussion," writes Zogby. "What is needed is a message that speaks to voters across the spectrum, telling them that they are being heard and their needs will be addressed by proposals for economic and social progress that will include and benefit everyone." (Photo: Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty Images)

by James Zogby
What don't we understand about Trump supporters? How have the political experts continuously been so wrong about this president and those who believe in him?




by Michael Winship
EB White and James Thurber could teach Trump—and us—a thing or two.



You want to decode Bill’s brain? Look at his family’s wealth. Look at his upbringing. Look at his medical records. (Credit: flickr / cc / world economic forum)

by Steven Singer
New Gates documentary is a cry for oligarchy in an age of idiocracy; a love letter to neoliberalism in a time of neofascism.


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