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News & Views | 10/30/20

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Firefighters and paramedics assist confirmed Covid-19 positive patients on October 26, 2020 in Glen Burnie, Maryland. (Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"This report exhaustively documents what has long been clear: the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus crisis has been a tragic failure."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We're now in the third wave, and I think our only way out is really open, transparent, and actionable information."


Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speaks while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) listens at the NAACP town hall during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations (CBCF) 49th Annual Legislative Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2019. (Photo: Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"It's time for an option that works for the people and not solely privatized profits."


Sens. Sherrod Brown (L) (D-Ohio) and Jeff Berkley (D-Ore.) chat while walking in the U.S. Capitol on August 5, 2020. (Photo: Douglas Graham/Roll Call/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Minority and low-income families who have disproportionately borne the brunt of the current economic crisis are particularly at risk."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The conduct of Philadelphia police officers and their national union on Thursday amounted to what one journalist called "an extraordinary mix of police violence and disinformation," after it was revealed that officers beat a young mother and then used her toddler's image in pro-police propaganda.


A red-legged frog sits in a backyard pond in Washington state. The herbicide atrazine, common in the U.S. but banned many other places, is linked to hermaphroditic amphibians as well as various harmful health effects in humans. (Photo: Dan Dzurisin/flickr/cc)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We're not going to just stand by and watch another generation get poisoned by one of the most dangerous pesticides still in use."


At least 17 people received medical treatment for heat-related illnesses during U.S. President Donald Trump's packed campaign rally in Tampa, Florida on Thursday, October 29, 2020. (Photo: Screenshot/HuffPost video)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Trump campaign goes into home stretch by infecting, freezing, and burning its own supporters."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Dozens of labor unions have resolved to consider a general strike after Nov. 3 should President Donald Trump refuse to accept the results of the election or sabotage the counting of ballots, with organizers calling a work stoppage "the most powerful tool the movement has" to protect democracy.


A voter on bicycle drops off their ballot at a drive through drop-off for absentee ballots on August 11, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon called the court's decision a "tremendous and unnecessary disruption to Minnesota's election, just days before Election Day."


A medical worker takes a nasal swab sample from a student to test for COVID-19 at the Brooklyn Health Medical Alliance urgent care pop up testing site as infection rates spike.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Another record day of Covid cases. Not because of testing—but because President Trump has given up on controlling the virus and his administration has failed the American people."


IRS headquarters in the Federal Triangle district of Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Soodevilla/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
If U.S. police detected murders at the same .03% rate that America's richest families are audited, writes journalist David Cay Johnson, "they would become aware of just five of the 16,214 reported homicides."

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With local and independent news outlets under threat from all sides, write Pickard, a "reformist vision that recognizes news and information as public goods—vital necessities for our collective welfare that the market can't provide—calls for a holistic approach." (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Victor Pickard
Ultimately, the market won't save us. Nor will rich benefactors. We need a systemic fix, a public media option that's dedicated to universal service in its true meaning: all Americans must have access to high quality news and information.


A protester participates in the BLD PWR and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles final march to the polls on October 28, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images)

by Leah Greenberg, Sean Eldridge
Trump is laying the groundwork to dispute the valid election results. That’s not hyperbole, Trump has said it clearly.


A demonstrator dressed in white wears a protective face mask and holds a banner during the "You go girl! Women's march for Belarus" on October 10, 2020 in Krakow, Poland. The women March for Belarus is a global action to show solidarity with thousands of Belarusian women, clad in white and holding flowers who have been victims of police violence and inhuman detention by the police during protests. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)

by Yifat Susskind
If Trump refuses to step down after the election, we’ll need to unite, mobilise and resist. Feminists from Belarus to Sudan can show us how.


President Donald Trump and newly sworn-in U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett look on during a ceremonial swearing-in on the South Lawn of the White House October 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Senate confirmed Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court today by a vote of 52-48. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Will Bunch
A Democratic Congress and White House could expand the Supreme Court by just three seats—the same number as appointed by Trump during a presidency that history may regard as essentially invalid.


The economic devastation from this crisis will follow our generation for our entire lives. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Amira Al-Subaey, Parker Breza
The solution that matches the scale of the crisis is full student debt cancellation, without leaving anyone behind.

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