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News & Views | 9/15/20

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Meat processing plants have been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo: Nati Harnik/AP)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Hundreds of emails obtained by Public Citizen and American Oversight offer a rare inside look at the meat industry's power and access to the highest levels of government.

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by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
While lawmakers from both parties have used the tactic in the past, Democrats, hoping to flip the Senate, look to block GOP opposition in 2021.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Reproductive rights advocates on Tuesday warned that a newly proposed expansion of the anti-choice global gag rule will put millions at even greater risk of being unable to access healthcare including abortion care. 


Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about climate change and the wildfires on the West Coast at the Delaware Museum of Natural History on September 14, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The editors blast Trump's rejection of "evidence and science," especially "his dishonest and inept response to the Covid-19 pandemic."


Residents on the 210 freeway try to see if their house on the other side of thick smoke and flames might burn near the community of Tujunga during the La Tuna Fire on September 2, 2017 near Burbank, California. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The cost of resisting the new climate reality is mounting," a new report shows, suggesting the U.S. is "on the cusp of a great transformation" involving the relocation of millions of displaced people.


Workers march for a $15 minimum wage in New York City on November 10, 2015. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The median U.S. worker salary would be around twice as high today if wages kept pace with economic output since World War II, new research revealed.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The complaint alleges numerous health and safety violations in regards to Covid-19 in addition a disturbing number of procedures performed on detained women.


A U.N. report released Tuesday details the world's biodiversity crisis and a path to address it. (Photo: jotily/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We can no longer afford to cast nature aside. Now is the time for this massive step up—conserving, restoring, and using biodiversity fairly and sustainably."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
With less than 50 days to go until the general election, national grassroots network People's Action unveiled new research Tuesday supporting its use of an unorthodox, in-depth campaigning strategy to win over voters in red, rural areas in battleground states. 



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need a Secretary of Health and Human Services who will look out for the American people, not President Trump's political interests."


An image from the European Space Agency, ESA, showing the glacier section that broke off the fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden. (Photo: European Space Agency)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
News of the development came as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared this summer the hottest ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump's executive order could lead to attempts to punish companies such as Twitter and Google for attempting to point out factual inconsistencies in social media posts by politicians. (Photo: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

by Timothy Karr
A key protection for internet freedom has run headlong into a Trump administration determined to stifle all criticism of the president and ensure that social media remain tools for the unchecked spread of the president's brand of disinformation and bigotry.


A general Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft arrives at RAF Fairford after completing the first transatlantic flight for such an aircraft, on July 11, 2018 in Gloucestershire, England. (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Barry Summers
Allowing this powerful technology to be taken from overseas wars and turned inward on American citizens isn’t something that should happen without a robust public debate.


"We must reconceptualize how we build security both at home and abroad to uphold the well-being and dignity of all people," writes Lee, "Endless war has not made us, or the world, safer." (Photo: Alex Guerrero/flickr/cc)

by Barbara Lee
Congress must rein in our government's ability to do harm in the world.


Former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, Roger Stone, leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse after being found guilty of obstructing a congressional investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election on November 15, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Miles Mogulescu
There's a strong possibility that the period after Election Day could make Bush v. Gore in 2000 look like a tea party.


The Bobcat Fire burns on hillsides behind homes in Arcadia, California on September 13, 2020. (Photo: Frederic J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images)

by Andy Rowell
From the west to the east, climate change is super-charging our warming world.


Tax policy can and should address anti-democratic extremes of wealth distribution, but governments must not wait for success in that endeavor to address the climate crisis

by John Buell
It is the height of moral and fiscal irresponsibility not to borrow massively to meet life- saving needs.

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