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News & Views | 9/23/20

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A view of a memorial to Breonna Taylor in Jefferson Square Park in downtown Louisville, Kentucky prior to the September 23, 2020 announcement of the results of a grand jury inquiry into the police officers involved in the killing of Taylor (Photo: Jeff Dean/AFP)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Did I hear that correctly? Only one officer is being held remotely accountable, and it's not for killing Breonna Taylor but instead for shooting apartments?"

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Social and environmental justice groups opposed to Shell's plans to drill for fossil fuels in Arctic waters organized a protest in kayaks on the shores of Seattle's Elliot Bay in 2015. (Photo: Greenpeace)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"BP, Shell, and Total are still drilling us into a deeper climate emergency, and that has to stop before they can claim any credibility."


The Environmental Protection Agency is ignoring scientific evidence of the harm of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos—including from its own researchers—and delaying a decision on the chemical's use. (Photo: Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The neurotoxin—which EPA scientists wanted to ban during the Obama administration—has been shown to damage children's brains and to harm handlers and animals.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We cannot and will not let Trump and McConnell pack the Supreme Court without a fight."


Trump Supreme Court

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They aren't hiding that they want to confirm a new Trump justice so that justice can steal the election."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"An American president does not praise violence against a reporter for doing his job. That is what an ugly, insecure two-bit dictator does."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It comes down to this. Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden. Vote for Biden at least in swing states—and urge others to do so as well. And then get on with building grassroots movements for ongoing fundamental change."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The list of what is at stake if Republicans get their way and their extremist agenda finds a home in the nation's highest court is truly staggering."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"There may be a divide on Capitol Hill but the large majority of us are worried about climate change and want to see leaders deal with it."


A view of the Wall St street sign and the New York Stock Exchange during the coronavirus pandemic on May 25, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The primary beneficiaries of the program have been corporate executives and investors, not workers."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"At a time when wildfires are burning down an entire coast, it's absolutely unconscionable for the media to dismiss climate change as a topic in the first presidential debate."

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Former Vice President Joe Biden greets guests during a campaign stop at the RiverCenter on October 16, 2019 in Davenport, Iowa. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sonali Kolhatkar, Juliet Schor, et al.
Fifty-five progressive writers and activists with a message for 2020 voters.


The recent media-sponsored town halls with President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden haven’t inspired much hope for the place of climate in the debates. (Photo: Takver/flickr/cc)

by Julie Hollar
The climate crisis has been and continues to be a top issue for voters and one that can’t be ignored by journalists for another four years.


View of students and faculty carrying signs during a strike by faculty and staff of Boston University, on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, 1979. Historian Howard Zinn, then a professor at BU, is visible in the foreground. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Images)

by Peter Dreier
Conservatives have been upset about kids reading 'A People’s History of the United States' for years, worrying that it stirs up trouble. Now Trump has taken up the cause.


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 Steven Hill
The U.S. under Trump has reached such a perilous state that this simple act has become heroic.


An overview of Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. (Photo: Google Maps)

by Laura Flanders
Now is the time to mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg and fight like hell for living breathing, actionable, racial, reproductive and gender justice.


Smoky skies from the northern California wildfires casts a reddish color in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

by Richard Heinberg
The real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people's minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn't need...

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