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News & Views | 9/28/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The American people should be angry about President Trump's tax evasion, but that's not all. They should be much more angry about how much of what Trump did is legal."

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. on September 26, 2020. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Sometimes her opinions have been downright cruel. They disqualify her, full stop."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The strain on employers "just shows how ridiculous it is to have a system where a person's health insurance is tied to their job."


Donald Trump tax returns

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He contributed less to funding our communities than waitresses and undocumented immigrants," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"He truly represents a core value of why we are free—because we have freedom of the press," Weiwei said.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Dr. Scott Atlas, a Trump adviser with no expertise in infectious diseases, "has been spreading misinformation for a long time," said one epidemiologist.


Brad Parscale, former campaign manager and current adviser to Trump's 2020 reelection bid, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference hosted by the American Conservative Union on February 28, 2020 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Police removed Parscale from his Fort Lauderdale home after his wife reported that he was armed and suicidal.


United Auto Worker Joe Nero pickets outside the shuttered General Motors plant in Lordstown, OH, on Sep. 23, 2019. (Photo: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We need strong leadership to negotiate trade with other countries and trade policies that serve workers, not multinational companies that send jobs overseas."


Aerial view of the Marathon refinery in Carson, California on April 25, 2020. (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The Unearthed and HuffPost report reveals the companies failed to disclose membership in at least eight Big Oil lobbies in their transparency reports.


A small group of demonstrators protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the early morning of September 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C., as the group marched from the home of Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) to the court

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The American people see this rushed process for what it is. An attempt to cement a right-wing supermajority on the highest court in order to dismantle the Affordable Care Act in the middle of a pandemic and overturn Roe v. Wade ."


Amy Coney Barrett (R), U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, listens as Trump speaks during an announcement ceremony at the White House on September 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The people demand that OUR NEEDS ARE MET before the Senate entertains the idea of confirming a new justice days before the most important presidential election of our lifetime."

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The idea that poverty is the result of bad behavior, laziness, or sin rather than decisions made by those with power is distinctly ascendant in Donald Trump’s and Mitch McConnell’s Washington. (Photo: Screengrab/State Department Website)

by Rev Dr Liz Theoharis
The dangers posed by today’s Christian nationalists are all too real.


Data also indicate that more equal societies are better able to handle the pandemic. (Photo: Kena Betancu/AFP via Getty Images)

by Sarah Anderson, Brian Wakamo
A new data visualization series illustrates how the pandemic and flawed policy responses have widened long-standing economic, racial, and gender divides.


It follows that if he loses the election, Trump will not accept the result because it would be the product of Anti-Trump Nation, and Trump isn’t the president of people who would vote against him. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
He has turned America into a gargantuan projection of his own pathological narcissism.


We can believe in a future of expanding rainforests, flowing rivers, diverse species and a stable climate. We can believe in a world without famine or drought, without systemic violence or economic injustice. (Photo: jotily/Getty Images)

by Henry Coleman
Let’s open our eyes to the majority of human cultures—including and especially indigenous Australian ones—that have consistently enriched the biosphere.


A better world is possible, reads a sign

by Joan Pedro-Carañana
There are increasing numbers of experiences putting collaborative methods for hope and dialogue into practice.


President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina on September 19, 2020.

by Robert Freeman
Trump’s claim to economic wizardry easily falls apart.

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