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News & Views | 7/10/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I am proud to announce the modern-day oligarchs who oppose our movement."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Saying President Donald Trump's openly xeonphobic hardline anti-immigration agenda has brought the United States to a "moment of reckoning" on immigration policies that have been in place for decades, a New Jersey-based advocacy group on Wednesday led families whose loved ones were deported in a protest at Joe Biden's campaign headquarters.


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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
More than 7,000 colleges and universities across the globe declared a climate emergency on Wednesday and unveiled a three-point plan to collectively commit the addressing the crisis.


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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Today's decision by the FCC will be remembered as one in which the commission's three GOP members embodied the worst qualities of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge."


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her caucus Wednesday to take any problems to her and leave Twitter out of it.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"You got a problem? See Maureen Dowd. Going off the past couple weeks, that seems to be the new complaint policy."


More than four years after the Senate Intelligence Committee's redacted report, the results of an independent investigation have been released in a 400-page report entitled CIA Torture Unredacted. It is the first time that the entirety of the CIA's detention programme has been systematically revealed. (Photo: Ronnie Robertson/Flickr/cc)

by Crofton Black
New report is the most comprehensive public account of one of the most disturbing elements of America's so-called 'War on Terror’



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it was investigating allegations the border agents sexually assaulted children in at least one migrant detention center and retaliated against children who spoke out about the conditions they've been forced to live in.

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A cemetery in Taft, Louisiana, in the shadow of a petrochemical plant. The area is known as "Cancer Alley." (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Mallika Khanna
Poor and working communities stand to gain the most from protections against corporations that expose them to pollution


It is ironic (but not surprising) that an administration claiming to fight for lower drug prices for Americans is actively pushing for rule changes that would grant even more price-gouging power to pharmaceutical multinationals. (Photo: Gladkikh/Getty Images)

by Jayati Ghosh
Skyrocketing drug prices were a major issue in the 2016 US presidential campaign, and the Trump administration has since announced measures to bring them down. Why, then, is the administration also pushing for intellectual-property rules that give pharmaceutical giants even more price-gouging power?


The CBO paints a pretty solid picture of increased wages for twenty-seven million low-wage Americans. (Photo: Julio Cortez/AP Photo)

by David Dayen
Increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour would be very good news for American workers


In 2015, Global Financial Integrity (GFI) published a study revealing that in 2013 an astounding US$1.1 trillion was stolen annually—or nearly $3 billion a day—from developing countries due to trade mispricing. (Photo: The Weekly Bull/flickr/cc)

by Tanya Rawal-Jindia
Tax havens are a geopolitical nightmare, and transfer pricing is a legal accounting trick to get money into tax havens


Anti-poll tax demonstrators confront police in London, 1990. A measure in Florida has been likened to a new poll tax. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Robert P. Alvarez
Florida's anti-democratic poll tax will cost the state hundreds of thousands of voters—and hundreds of millions of dollars


We realized that, to be successful, we needed to systematically confront the instruments used to sustain the dominance of fossil fuels. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

by Bill McKibben
We must use this moment as crucial leverage to push the planet in a new direction. If we succeed, then we have risen to the greatest crisis humans have ever faced and shown that the big brain was a useful evolutionary adaptation.

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