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News & Views | 10/20/20

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A worker installs solar panels at the Solarpark Eggersdorf solar park on September 4, 2012 near Muencheberg, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We don't have to choose between a strong economy or a healthy environment—we can have both," says an EPI data analyst.

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House Democrats on Tuesday introduced the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/">arbyreed</a>/flickr/cc)</p>

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"By presenting smart, focused solutions to the climate crisis, this pioneering legislation propels the oceans into the heart of the climate debate in Congress."


Billionaire wealth

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The juxtaposition between surging billionaire wealth and the imploding livelihoods of ordinary Americans is grotesque and unseemly."


A Board of Election worker assists a voter during New York's Democratic presidential primary in Brooklyn on June 23, 2020. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We know you understand the importance of your role in preserving our fragile democracy," the groups wrote.


The Google logo is projected onto a man on August 09, 2017 in London.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The filing, announced Tuesday morning, accuses the tech giant of violating law to stifle competition.


Pennsylvania Supreme Court

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This decision could have easily gone the other way if Amy Coney Barrett was on the court."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced that he'll assemble a panel of experts to independently verify that any coronavirus vaccine is suitable for public use. 


Coronavirus relief

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The new survey shows 72% of likely voters—including 56% of Republicans—support an ambitious coronavirus relief package.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday argued in court filings that when the president denied columnist E. Jean Carroll's rape accusation last year, he was acting not on behalf of his own interests but in his capacity as a public servant representing the people of the United States.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Bolivian people made their voices heard in yesterday's election," said Sanders, who was among the first U.S. lawmakers to condemn the coup that ousted Evo Morales last year.


Voters wait in line, socially distanced from each other, to cast their early ballots at the Westchester Regional Library polling station on October 19, 2020 in Westchester, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"There are thousands upon thousands of energized and inspired returning citizens throughout the state that will not be denied, that will be a voice, and will have an impact in determining who wins Florida."

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Protesters at a rally against President Donald Trump in San Francisco, January 20 2017. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Pax Ahimsa Gethen. CC BY-SA 4.0.)

by Marc Edelman
Words matter. We must call what is happening in the US by its true name.


2020 has the chance to be a historic year for international reproductive rights. (Photo: Tami Chappell/AFP/Getty Images)

by Stacie Murphy
If Democrats are elected, we can have a new president and a congress that will fight to repeal the Helms Amendment and safeguard accessible and affordable healthcare everywhere.


Youth climate activists hold signs during a Climate Strike youth protest outside of Chevron headquarters on Sept. 27, 2019, in San Ramon, California. Hundreds of activists and their supporters were calling for the company to abandon fossil fuels by 2025. (PHOTO BY JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES)

by Mike Males
Older generations have generally favored "nowism," which privileges short-term well-being at the expense of long-term environmental and societal sustainability. And today’s youth are done with it.


We can simultaneously embrace our exile as an experience of transformation while voting to reclaim the world beneath our feet. (Photo by Matteo Trevisan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Amy Reed-Sandoval
The forces that have kept us in exile want us to lose touch with our sense of democratic agency—they want us to feel that we have forever lost our worlds.


In the wake of the pandemic, food security has emerged as a key issue. (Photo: John Benford/Aurora Photos/Getty Images)

by Shiney Varghese
The pandemic has exposed the fragility of the current industrialized food supply system, which is nested in an unequal, racialized and gendered socio-economic system experiencing the increasing prevalence of unemployment and food insecurity.


UNITE-HERE! is a union representing 300,000 workers in the hospitality industry—that world of hotels and bars, restaurants and caterers. (Photo: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Rebecca Gordon
UNITE-HERE! Canvassers take on Trump in Nevada.

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