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News & Views | 10/28/20

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks with a voter near a polling station during the New York primaries on June 23, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We're not good enough right now," the New York Democrat says of her party, and unless the material lives of working-class people are improved the nation's dangerous slide to the right will continue.

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Waterfall on Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Destructive development in the country's largest national forest—such as extractive logging and expansive road building—will be catastrophic for generations to come," warned Greenpeace.



People receive a prepared meal at the Thessalonica Christian Church during a distribution on October 22, 2020 in New York City.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The GDP figures will come as tens of millions of Americans face "economic calamity" due to Republican lawmakers' persistent refusal to approve additional coronavirus relief.



Louis DeJoy

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Once again, I call on the Board members to release their financial disclosure forms, remove DeJoy, and do their jobs by reversing DeJoy's actions."


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An aerial photograph taken on February 24, 2014 depicts the destruction of an Indonesian rainforest—the habitat of endangered orangutans, tigers, and other animal as well as plant species—cleared to make way for a palm oil plantation on Borneo Island. (Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Imagine a world in which projects can only raise capital when they have demonstrated that they will contribute meaningfully and positively to restoring the planet's bounty and a safe climate for all. That's the future this report envisions and builds toward."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump's anti-science attitude is why 225,000 Americans are dead and why the pandemic is surging nationwide," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
In a ruling that critics said served as an endorsement of voter suppression, the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday evening sided with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott regarding his order limiting each county in the state to just one mail-in ballot drop box. 



Count every vote

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"An election is not a reality show with a big reveal at the end," said FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub.



President Donald Trump speaks to 5,000 contractors at the Shell Chemicals Petrochemical Complex on August 13, 2019 in Monaca, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Polling data doesn't support the idea that the issue is politically popular overall, and critics say the order would be "just one more desperate attempt by this White House to make fracking into a winning campaign issue."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This killing must be thoroughly investigated, and the officers responsible for Wallace's death must be held accountable for their actions."



Far-right militia members armed with weapons including assault rifles in Stone Mountain, Georgia on August 15, 2020. (Photo: Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Citing her "sworn duty to protect every voter and their right to cast the ballot free from intimidation and harassment," the Democratic secretary of state vows to appeal the judge's injunction.


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Voting lines in Milwaukee, April 2020 (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Margot Rathke, Sarah Anderson
Low-income voters could decide this election. These neighborhood activists are working to make it happen.



Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 14, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)

by Jules Lobel
For the past half century or so, the progressive movement has often relied on the courts, not the political branches to win and protect rights. It's time for that to change.



A shared dream is a powerful force for change. It’s time to share the dream of freedom from student debt. (Photo: YouTube/screenshot)

by Mary Green Swig, Steven Swig
Millions of people don’t even know they’re being harmed by student debt, but should be dreaming of a world without it. The facts are staggering.



A Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump sign is displayed in the backyard of a house on August 14, 2016 in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. This Western Pennsylvania city has a median household income of $32,442. Trump has been holding rallies in the state frequently as he targets Pennsylvania's 20 delegates, the 5th largest total nationwide. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

by Mariko Lewis, Yixia Cai
The rise in material hardship among lower-income whites without college degrees, and the Congressional GOP’s opposition to new legislation addressing it, will likely make it harder for Trump to hold on to these important swing voters in next week’s election.



Just because some of us don’t see hateful posts in our newsfeeds doesn’t diminish the impact they have on those who do. (Photo: Legal Loop)

by Carmen Scurato
The proliferation of divisive and hateful content is baked into Facebook’s business model: The platform profits from finely targeting ads to users who are most likely to respond to them.



Getting journalists to talk more directly about the true problems with the court  is a critical step along the way. (Photo: Joe Ravi/CC-BY-SA 3.0)

by Julie Hollar
By accepting "court packing" as "the term for" expanding the court, journalists lend a hand to those anti-democratic forces.


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