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News & Views | 9/4/19

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devastation in the bahamas

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
While Hurricane Dorian marched up the U.S. Southeastern coast Wednesday after devastating the Northern Bahamas, advocates for ambitious climate action reiterated the global emergency's connection to extreme weather—even as an analysis showed that major corporate news outlets are failing to report...

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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on public and private lands," declared Sanders


A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Trump's penchant for terrorizing and tormenting Latino children for political gain is literally causing irreparable trauma."


A protester is seen during a climate change demonstration holding a placard that says, 'There Is No Planet B.'

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"As fires rage in the Amazon and Hurricane Dorian threatens the Southeast after pummeling the Bahamas, the gravity of the climate crisis is impossible to ignore."


U.S. President Donald Trump (R) references a map held by acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan while talking to reporters following a briefing from officials about Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office at the White House September 04, 2019 in Washington, DC. The map was a forecast from August 29 and appears to have been altered by a black marker to extend the hurricane's range to include Alabama. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It is a violation of federal law to falsify a National Weather Service forecast and pass it off as official, as President Trump did here."


Protesters hold balloons on January 20, 2018 in Berlin during a demonstration under the slogan "We are fed up" against agricultural politics and the use of glyphosate, dumping exports and for sustainable agriculture.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"What we need is more humming and buzzing."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Ahead of CNN's Democratic climate forum on Wednesday, several green groups shared that just nine of the current Democratic presidential candidates have signed the "No KXL Pledge," promising to reverse President Donald Trump's permit for the construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

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by Timothy Karr
By vowing to increase support for public media and dedicate funds to newsgathering, a proposal put forth by Bernie Sanders is raising a question that's rarely come up in political debates: How can policymakers intervene to help revitalize local news and put journalists back to work?


It’s not immigrants who are taking from us. It’s Trump. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Jill Richardson
The Trump administration is moving money away from disaster relief to lock up more immigrants.


Don't despair, for a warm glow of hope beckons from the very midst of today's cold, often nightmarish system. (Photo: Jim Watson/Getty Images)

by Jim Hightower
The power of the establishment's money and lies wilts in the face of the moral imperative that is at the heart of Medicare for All: Everyone deserves, as a human right, affordable access to quality health care.


Biden has been notoriously gaffe-prone for his entire career. (Photo: Marc Nozell/cc/flickr)

by Ryan Cooper
Is Joe Biden mentally unsound?


"Historians belong in this debate," writes the University of Michigan professor, "because our moment is world-historical, and only historians can set it in context." (Photo: University of Michigan)

by Juan Cole
I don't demean myself by reading Breitbart. I'd rather lie naked in my garden during a rainstorm and let slugs traverse me, leaving trails of slime. But I know who they are are.


The path that we are on leads to darkness. (Photo: Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/SIPA USA/PA Images)

by Laurie Laybourn-Langton
We need a European Green New Deal that delivers justice on a scale to match the threat of environmental breakdown. Here's how we do it.

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