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News & Views | 10/9/20

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Trump Medicare

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"There it is: Trump wants to steal billions from Medicare to pay for an illegal voter bribery scheme weeks before the election."

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U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask on October 5, 2020, upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized after contracting Covid-19. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"No proof he's not contagious yet," said epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding. "Dangerous."


Members of a far-right paramilitary group in downtown Stone Mountain, Georgia on August 15, 2020. (Photo: Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"This is the stuff of our worst nightmares."


A billboard photographed in Pristina, Kosovo on October 7, 2020 wishes Donald Trump a speedy recovery from Covid-19. (Photo: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The use of fetal cells "has led to immense medical breakthroughs, including the development of vaccines for polio, measles, and rubella," and critical understanding of other diseases, said one leading researcher.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He could see a war as helping him these next few weeks, or after November 3 if the results aren't decisive. Vote!" said Sina Toossi of the National Iranian American Council.


A gas flare is seen at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 outside Williston, North Dakota.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The judge delivered a "puzzling and unsupported conclusion that the Bureau of Land Management can't limit methane waste because that would reduce greenhouse gas pollution."


Demonstrators from the Center for Popular Democracy Action stand on the U.S. Supreme Court steps dressed in Handmaids Tale costumes to voice opposition to Judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination to the court on September 30, 2020. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Rushing to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett will cause irreparable damage to the public's faith in the Supreme Court, the rule of law, and our democracy."


Trump Coronavirus

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Trump and White House officials have repeatedly refused to say whether the president has tested negative for the coronavirus since his diagnosis last week.


Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) questions Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to discuss the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation in the Dirksen Senate Office Building June 3, 2020 in Washington D.C. (Photo: Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Some of us are fighting to build a true representative democracy, and then some are Mike Lee."


A father and his son, who suffers from moderate malnutrition, receives nutrition supplies (Plumpy sup) at WFP supported health clinic in Yemen in September of 2020. (Photo: WFP/Mohammed Awadh)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"We will never achieve the goal of zero hunger unless we also put an end to war and armed conflict," said the Nobel Committee.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Drop boxes have proven to be a secure method of collecting ballots, and are crucial in allowing voters to safely cast their vote during this unprecedented pandemic."

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In the struggle to survive this pandemic and to begin to knit together a society that has been increasingly divided in order to serve the needs of the market, we can ill afford to allow health inequities to get even worse. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Dana Brown
In order to avoid the catastrophic effects of the hollowing out of primary care for our health and that of the economy, the U.S. should take this opportunity to transform the sector by creating a national program for universal public primary care.


The manifest danger that Trump poses, as epitomized by this terrorist plot, needs to be highlighted. (Photo by Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
This plot is no accident. It is the essence of Trumpism.


So Iran gave up most of its latent nuclear deterrence and not only got nothing in return, it got the most crippling sanctions ever applied to one country by another in peacetime. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
The Trump strangling of Iran could produce a war.

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