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News & Views | 9/9/19

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Climate scientists have warned for years that the extreme weather events caused by a rapidly warming planet is already creating climate refugees around the world and will force many more people from their homes—and on Sunday night, the Trump administration's response to those refugees was on full...

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We understand the threat of the climate crisis and want to work for a company that makes climate a priority."



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Stressing the dangers of mass surveillance, a coalition 30 of digital rights, social justice, and civil liberties groups on Monday urged House Democrats to end a provision of the PATRIOT Act that enables the government to collect Americans' phone records.


Newman, Warren, Cisneros

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In what Justice Democrats celebrated as "an incredibly important moment," 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday endorsed Jessica Cisneros and Marie Newman—a pair of progressive primary challengers to conservative incumbent Democrats in Congress.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We'll have a national debate about policies that help the one percent versus policies that lift the 99. I get the sense Trump knows the reckoning is coming... No Sharpie edits will save him."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If we do not urgently act to solve the economic distress of millions of Americans, a whole generation will be condemned to early death."


United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The window of opportunity for action may be closing—but there is still time to act."

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by Joshua Cho
Many outlets uncritically transmitted the ad's message as if it were merely a campaign strategy, instead of explaining what Biden, Sanders and Warren's proposals actually are, and clarifying for voters whether Biden's charges against his primary opponents are accurate.



by Michael Winship
A conversation with author Steven Greenhouse on history and reviving American unions


Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention at the SNHU Arena on September 7, 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
For the bulk of the party leadership who remain in sync with the current frontrunner, self-critical assessments are essentially off-limits.


Gender equity policy is also smart health policy. (Photo: Marc Nozell/Flickr/cc)

by Patricia Homan
The key implication of my research on structural sexism is that gender inequality in the U.S. is not only a human rights issue, but also a public health problem.


Capitalists go to absurd lengths to lie about capitalism’s true nature. (Photo: Mr. Fish / Truthdig)

by Chris Hedges
They know the reigning ideology of neoliberalism no longer has any credibility. Its lies have been exposed. They also know they are to blame.


Today, Libya is again—or rather, still—a country at war. (Photo: Reuters)

by Nick Turse
"I'm never going to be well. I still have pain."

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