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News & Views | 10/15/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Calls for #NBCblackout on Thursday night after network accused of "caving to the Trumpian impulses the network helped hone."

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A twelve year-old works in a silver cooking pot factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh during the coronavirus crisis, which has led to a resurgence of child labor amid worsening economic deprivation and educational precarity. (Photo: Md Manik/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Good time to remember that a number of free market economists defend child labor as being a good thing."


Ranking Member Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) hug as the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett come to a close on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 15, 2020. (Photo: Samuel Corum/ Pool /AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Allowing the California Democratic senator to remain, argues Demand Justice's Brian Fallon is a "monument to our side's weakness on the fight for the courts."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senator Graham just further proved the illegitimacy of this sham process by again breaking the rules to ram through a justice to rip away healthcare from millions in the middle of a pandemic."


Indonesian Defense Minister and former Kopassus general Prabowo Subianto during a visit to Natuna air base on February 5, 2020. (Photo: Muhammad Fahmi Dolli/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Prabowo Subianto—who led a notorious commando unit implicated in genocidal violence—was invited to Washington by Defense Secretary Mark Esper.


Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"To be fair, I don't have any 'views on climate change' either. Just like I don't have any 'views' on gravity."


The entrance to the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the U.S. Capitol on September 28, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Instead of helping Trump's chances of electoral victory, Republicans appear to be jockeying to "restrain a Biden administration on federal spending."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable case for more federal economic aid for families struggling to make ends meet during the coronavirus pandemic. 


California Republicans are doubling down on defying a cease and desist order regarding bogus ballot boxes placed in three counties. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Let me be clear: unofficial, unauthorized ballot drop boxes are not permitted by state law," said California's secretary of state.


A man wearing a face mask walks past a Twitter logo outside their New York City headquarters. Facebook and Twitter took steps to limit the spread of a controversial New York Post article critical of Joe Biden, sparking outrage among conservatives and stoking debate over how social media platforms should tackle misinformation ahead of the US election. (Photo: John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Look carefully at what Twitter is saying to justify censoring the Biden story. If applied consistently, it’d mean that some of history’s most consequential journalism—the Pentagon Papers, WikiLeaks’ war logs, Snowden docs, Panama Papers, our Brazil Archive—would be banned."


Social Security

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Congress should immediately pass their legislation, which will boost the economy and save lives," said Nancy Altman of Social Security Works.

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Most people in America believe the next president should fill the Supreme Court vacancy. (Photo: Getty Images)

by LaShawn Warren
Senate Republicans are grasping any last chance to hold onto power well after public support has lapsed and their terms are over.


The Treasury Secretary has untapped capacity to push Wall Street to take the risks of the climate crisis seriously. (Photo: Kiyo/flickr/cc)

by Timi Iwayemi, Miranda Litwak
Biden’s choice for Treasury Secretary is arguably among his most important climate policy decisions.


Yemeni children study in the rubble of their school, which was destroyed by the violent war in the city of Taiz, Yemen 23 Dec 2018 (Photo: Akramalrasny via shutterstock.com)

by Rabyaah Althaibani
Biden has recently stated that under his leadership he would end U.S. support for Saudi military intervention in Yemen, a move supported by Congress, and reassess the current close U.S.-Saudi relationship.


The absence of war is not enough; we need to build a positive peace by supporting gender-equitable and locally-led peacebuilding, committing to multilateralism and international law, promoting green, justice-based development, and more. (Photo by NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Michael Galant
We must work to end the United States’ role in existing conflicts, repeal the AUMFs, return the powers of warmaking to Congress, and slash the Pentagon budget.


Donald Trump, U.S. president and supreme leader of the country’s white supremacists, prefers the pretend America, professing as much in a proclamation he issued this year on Columbus Day. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
Slave trade? Genocide? Armageddon? Never heard of it!


Climate Activists Protest Against Senate Leader Chuck Schumer Demanding He Sign On To Green New Deal. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty)

by Mark Hertsgaard
Rather than contributing to an environment in which the words "Green New Deal" are treated as a political liability, good journalism should assess both candidates' plans on their merits and inform the public accordingly.

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