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News & Views | 10/21/20

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Dr. Scott Atlas, member of the White House Coronavirus Taskforce, walks at the White House in Washington, DC, on October 12, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
He’s a reminder of an infamous Russian who “probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history.”

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People wait in line outside the Washington Park Library to cast their ballots on the first day of in-person early voting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 20, 2020. (Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The court should protect the fundamental right to vote by blocking Trump's attempt to prevent a free and fair election."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Today's guilty plea comes too late for the millions of lives that Purdue's crimes destroyed over the past decade."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
More than 40 progressive groups urged the House Democrats to initiate impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Bill Barr—not only to hold his accountable, but also as a procedural tactic to keep the Senate from confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. 



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Mitch McConnell is rushing to steal a Supreme Court seat before the election. Senate Republicans would rather help him do it than help millions of Americans."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Catholic leaders and observers of the Vatican marked "a major step forward" for the Catholic Church Wednesday after Pope Francis indicated his support for civil unions for same-sex couples, breaking with the church's long-held official teachings. 


Drug Enforcement Administration police are seen as demonstrators marched to Freedom Plaza from Capitol Hill to honor George Floyd and victims of racial injustice on Saturday, June 6, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It is astonishing that in the midst of a pandemic and calls for police reform, the DEA is using the same old heavy-handed tactics to address a public health issue."


Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testifies under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on June 2, 2020. (Photo: Tom Williams/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The suit seeks "the immediate release of improperly withheld agency records related to federal government's failed response to the spread of Covid-19 in prisons in jails."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Besides shameless graft, Trump's central agenda is tormenting the people who didn't vote for him."


Climate activists staged a protest outside the European Central Bank headquarters demanding that the ECB stop fueling the climate crisis by supporting fossil fuel companies on October 21, 2020. (Photo: Koala Kollektiv)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Critics call out the bank for "purchasing bonds from some of the world's worst climate criminals through its trillion-euro Covid recovery package."


A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We will not stop looking until we have found every one of the families, no matter how long it takes."

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Whenever there are discussions about enacting a national fracking ban, corporate media seem to prioritize the supposed short-term potential “risks” to Democrats’ electoral prospects, or potential economic downturns, over the long-term prospects for human civilization’s survival. (Photo: Food & Water Watch/Flickr/cc)

by Joshua Cho
There is no reason for a fracking ban to be "political suicide" unless corporate journalists are determined to equate that with the death of the fossil fuel industry.


Money needs to move not just out of incarceration and into care, but into the hands of those people and communities whom our current system has harmed most. (Photo: Robyn Beck / AFP - Getty Images)

by Laura Flanders
There’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system.


Donald Trump will stop at nothing to retain his power. (Photo: Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
Make this a blowout victory for Joe Biden and Democrats down the ballot, and stop Trump from stealing this election.


Every election, more than 700,000 Americans are denied to the right to vote as they sit in jail awaiting trial. This must end. (Photo: Frederic Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
This form of voter suppression is a social injustice and a civic indignity.


Trump’s removal from office is only the first step. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Mike Lofgren
To get beyond the present crisis, we must undo his crimes and follies.


Amy Coney Barrett and Donald Trump. (Photo: Creative Commons)

by Bill Blum
Her goal on the court will be to drive America back to the days before the New Deal and the civil rights movement.

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