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News & Views | 9/18/20

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People stand in line, spaced six apart due to Covid-19, in order to vote early at the Fairfax Government Center on September 18, 2020 in Fairfax, Virginia. Voters waited up to four hours to early vote in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Given the pandemic, said one organizer, "we are really stressing that folks should try to vote as early as possible, whether they do that by mail or in person."

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a discussion during the Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, August 31, 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
On her deathbed, she told her granddaughter: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."


The man who identified himself as James Fortune, photographed on a fishing boat off Cape Hatteras. He asked to accompany an employee of a nonpartisan voter education organization on the day-long trip, claiming he was an experienced fisherman. It turns out Fortune appears not to be who he claims to be. (Photo courtesy of the employee)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Common Cause may be the target, but the attack is on our democracy and on the right of every eligible voter to have a say in the future for our families, communities, and country."


A child waits next to jerry cans and aid packages as Yemenis displaced by conflict receive humanitarian aid provided by the Abs Development Organisation in the northern province of Hajjah on September 17, 2020. (Photo: Essa Ahmed/AFP)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Our hearts go out to those suffering today, in the sober knowledge that this may turn out to be but a foretaste of the disruptions that may arise in the years to come."


Former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye (seated, L) has gone public with allegations that President Donald Trump cares more about reelection than with protecting the public from Covid-19. (Photo: YouTube screen grab)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Olivia Troye—a self-described lifelong Republican—is the first member of the president's Coronavirus Task Force to speak out publicly against him.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The move, says one advocate, is "shortsighted, ridiculous, and likely unconstitutional."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A new study released Friday by the RAND Corporation details the astronomical prices hospital systems across the U.S. charge private insurers and the more than 153 million patients who obtain health coverage through their employers—while Medicare proves to be a far more affordable option. 


President Donald Trump makes a statement with Attorney General William Barr in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Recent actions by the U.S. Attorney General, said chairs of key House committees, "clearly appear intended to benefit President Trump politically."


Millions of households throughout the U.S. are vulnerable to utility shutoffs next month as state moratoriums expire. (Photo: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Millions of Americans "shouldn't have to forgo more meals just to keep the lights on so their children can attend remote classes."


President Donald Trump speaking under a mural of America's founding fathers—many of whom owned slaves and pursued genocidal policies against Native Americans—on September 17, 2020. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Zinn, the renowned historian and author of A People's History of the United States , often said that being "honest about the history of our country" is the best way to combat propaganda.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump's hacks just sidestepped the CDC entirely and shamelessly wrote their own politically-motivated testing guidelines and published them under the agency's imprimatur."

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"Big pharma's secretive, profit-driven model of science is making the invention and dissemination of COVID treatments and vaccines more difficult than it needs to be," writes Morten. The industry, he warns, "generally prefers to keep its scientific advances on COVID-19 as secret as possible, even though this secrecy needlessly slows down the process of developing effective treatments and vaccines. And our law currently lets them." (Photo: Skynesher/Getty Images)

by Christopher Morten
It is time for our government to put science and public health ahead of private profit.


"Trump’s right-wing base and leading Republicans are in lockstep with both types of denial. They embrace the most absurd claims about climate ... And they refuse to recognize or deplore his autocratic moves," writes Solomon. (Photo: Oil Change International/Twitter)

by Norman Solomon
Climate change is an emergency. And so is Trumpism. Flames are approaching what’s left of democratic structures in the United States.


President Donald Trump speaks during his coronavirus task force briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 8, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Mitchell Zimmerman
Trump and his falsehoods are responsible for most of America’s 200,000 coronavirus deaths to date.


Anthony Miller #17 of the Chicago Bears kneels in the end zone before the game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on September 13, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

by Robert Lipsyte
Is this athletic revolt for real and is it a danger to Donald Trump?


An aerial shot of the chemical plants and factories that line the roads and suburbs of the area known as 'Cancer Alley' taken on October 15, 2013. (Photo: Giles Clarke/Getty Images.)

by Robert C. Koehler
State and local powers have approved a 14-plant plastics-production complex that would more than triple the levels of carcinogens in the region. It’s up to the residents to fight back to save their community.


U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens during a cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House on May 19, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Trita Parsi
Less than six weeks before the crucial November elections, the United States may be in a new war. The timing could not be more convenient.

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