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News & Views | 9/24/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Democratic lawmakers and progressives did not mince words Thursday regarding President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, warning that Trump is ushering in "fascism" and threatening the fabric of American democracy.

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Voters queue up to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in Fairfax, Virginia on September 18, 2020. (Photo: John McDonnell/Washington Post/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Biden and his party are "walking into a trap in the battleground states," warned one voting rights expert.


Bernie Sanders

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy—and democracy must win."


Unemployed airport workers and others hold a demonstration on August 13, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We know how to reduce inequality and combat poverty. The tools are there and the evidence backs it up."


New research calls for policymakers to end all government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and ban all exploration for new fossil fuel reserves anywhere in the world.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Solving the Covid-19 pandemic requires stopping the spread of the virus. Solving the ozone hole crisis required ending the production of ODSs. And solving the climate crisis requires leaving the fossil carbon in the ground."


A political poster favoring U.S. presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is placed on a front lawn September 11, 2020 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"After four years of chaos, tragedy, and absolute corruption, the choice we face in November could not be any clearer or more important."


Common Cause called out Facebook's "pattern of making incremental concessions when its existing policies cause controversies and public outcry." (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Vow by social media giant to reject political ads that prematurely declare election winner slammed as 'another hollow gesture.'


President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump flank the coffin of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Mourners also shouted "honor her wish"—a reference to the dying justice's desire for her vacant Supreme Court seat to be filled by the next president.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump and his Senate allies have found time to fast-track their SCOTUS plans while Americans are continuing to suffer without a new relief package."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Today's charging decision is the manifestation of what the millions of people who have taken to the streets to protest police violence already know: Modern policing and our criminal legal system are rotten to the core."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump and his political appointees have inappropriately pressured, intimidated, and overruled career public health officials too many times already, but the stakes are far too high for that to happen again with this upcoming FDA guidance."

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters on March 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Hannah Murphy
What Joe Biden would need to do starting from Day One to correct the course of US climate policy.


Wealth inequality is already high and, much like high-wage jobs, several sources of wealth have been spared the worst of the pandemic’s economic damage. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Samantha Waxman
Wealthy families and profitable corporations can afford it, and states can’t afford not to.


Business as usual for the oil and gas industry means increasing production even as investors are pulling out and bankruptcies are looming. (Photo: tolkien1914/flickr/cc)

by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
The new OCI report makes it clear that Big Oil is hiding behind claims that they are changing while continuing to push fossil fuels despite the harm to our health and climate.


Poverty remains high, and severe food insecurity has increased 31% across AGRA’s 13 countries, as measured by the United Nations. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images)

by Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise
It is time for African governments to step back from the failing Green Revolution and chart a new food system that respects local cultures and communities by promoting low-cost, low-input ecological agriculture.


The need is now crystal clear for progressives nationwide: Organize and volunteer to boost the Biden vote against Trump in the dozen swing states. (Photo: Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
With so much at stake—including social justice, human rights and this planet’s climate—Autumn 2020 is a time when people have the decisive opportunity to prevent the consolidation of illegitimate power by an authoritarian regime.


It is up to Facebook users to voice their concern by notifying Zuckerberg and Sandberg that they will abandon the platform the moment the media giant decides to adopt the IHRA definition. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Neve Gordon
The objective is to force Facebook to alter its hate speech definition so that its own "detection algorithm" will characterize any criticism of Israel as hate speech and automatically remove the pertinent content from the platform.

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