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News & Views | 10/22/20

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Trump Affordable Care Act

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senate Republicans who claim this was never about gutting healthcare are lying to you and Donald Trump just proved it."

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Aerial view of the Covid-19 emergency care facility erected at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The ruling called the Covid-19 outbreak at the notorious lockup "the worst epidemiological disaster in California correctional history."


Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jaime Harrison adjusts his mask during a drive-in campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina on October 17, 2020. (Photo: Lauren Petracca for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The development came after former President Barack Obama released an ad urging South Carolinians to vote for "my friend Jaime Harrison."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The global group of independent world leaders and justice advocates known as the Elders on Thursday issued a rebuke of the current failure by world leaders to employ a multilateral approach to confronting multiple existential crises facing the world population.


Amy Coney Barrett

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Republicans refuse to listen or care, putting their insatiable quest for power ahead of the people they vowed to serve and the Constitution they swore to uphold."


A mail-in absentee ballot for the 2020 general election ready to be filled out. (Photo: Photographer Don and Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The Democratic nominee holds a significant lead over the GOP incumbent among those who voted outside the major parties last time around.


Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden arrives at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware on October 19, 2020 to record an interview with Norah O'Donell of CBS 60 Minutes that is scheduled to air on Sunday. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"There's a number of alternatives that... go well beyond packing," Biden asserted. "The last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into just a political football."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Offering no explanation for their ruling, the five conservative justices who hold the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Alabama state officials Wednesday night in a decision banning curbside voting in the state. 



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Note that this is the same administration who has twice in the last 12 months nearly gone to war with Iran."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Now 225,000 dead Americans, virus spread raging, millions out of work, an economy spiraling down, and Trump today says he'd do the same things all over again."


Then-executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, Eric Schmidt speaks during a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) conference November 5, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Eric Schmidt said regulation should be directed toward "the excesses in the social-networking space."

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JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking corporation, has refused to compensate the families of employees who died after contracting COVID at its facility in Colorado. (Photo: Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

by Navina Khanna, Axel Fuentes
It’s time for our elected officials to pass enforceable workplace protections like those in the HEROES Act to make sure workers are able to stay safe, maintain social distance, and access paid sick leave.


When a deadly infection flames across an entire nation like a wildfire, the times demand leadership. Trump ran the other way. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Mitchell Zimmerman
In lieu of a plan for the virus, the president keeps assuring audiences that "only" older people will die.


Trump has been caught in 20,000+ falsehoods or lies in the past four years alone—telling an average of 22 a day—including several that led to thousands of deaths.(Photo: Rhys A./flickr/cc)

by Ralph Nader
If you don’t want such a person as your neighbor, why would you want him as your President where he’d have exponentially more power to harm you and your family?


The more Trump has abused his power and position in this world and the more he’s escaped any retribution for his crimes, the more obsessed I’ve become with visualizing ways for him to pay in some version of the afterlife. (Photo: Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Ariel Dorfman
Dante Alighieri has words for Donald J. Trump from the other side of death.


As a socialist, I don’t support Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s center-right Democratic politics. Indeed, for those whose political ideals embrace an end to class inequality, support for workplace democracy and opposition to global imperialism, what is there to support? (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Mark Harris
For decades now, the Democratic political establishment has overseen the betrayal of progressive and working-class hopes and interests.


Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe arrives for briefing in the Capitol with the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on allegations of Russian links to the Taliban on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
Anyone with the slightest common sense can see that Iran would be much better off with Biden, who is likely to try to re-implement the 2015 nuclear deal.

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