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News & Views | 7/12/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Speaker Pelosi, visit the camps! And bring the conservative Democrats with you—so you can all see why Trump's child abuse at the border needs to be reined in now."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Congress must continue using every available tool at its disposal to ensure that Donald Trump and John Bolton's march to war is fully blocked."


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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Public health and environmental advocates celebrated a victory Friday as the U.S. House approved an amendment in the annual defense spending bill that would designate a class of "forever chemicals" as "hazardous substances" under the federal Superfund law.


Demonstrators seen holding placards during the "Stop The Bans Day of Action for Abortion Rights" rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We will keep fighting this unconstitutional ban to make sure Oklahomans have access to the best medical treatment."


Deputy Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella's official portrait.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Deputy Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella will now serve as acting secretary


USBP Chief Carla Provost testified before the Judiciary Committee hearing on the subject "The MS-13 Problem: Investigating Gang Membership, its Nexus to Illegal Immigration, and Federal Efforts to End the Threat" at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 21, 2017.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The agency's culture is violent and racist for a reason."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote system, according to recent polling

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Martha, a granddaughter of the Catholic Worker Movement's founder Dorothy Day, is one of seven activists, the "King’s Bay Plowshares 7", whose April 4, 2018 action was in accord with their deeply held beliefs that life is sacred, and must not be taken in war. (Photo: Kathy Kelly)

by Kathy Kelly
The Taliban, U.S. Government, and every other warring party in Afghanistan must be asked: "How many more civilians, including children, are you willing to kill and maim?"


This whole fandango has been about scaring poor and desperate people. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr/cc)

by Charles P. Pierce
It's the point of the census fandango and the "massive ICE raids." It's the point of everything the Trump people do


Most terrifying for those who cannot fathom another four years of this nightmarish presidency ought to be Trump’s advertising and fundraising strategy. (Photo: Brynn Anderson / AP)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
Progressives and liberals have to accept the ugly fact that a sizable portion of America’s population is susceptible to Trump's propaganda because they back the president’s xenophobic, anti-immigrant, racist, sexist, homophobic, corporatist, and war-mongering agenda


The United Nations recently warned that climate disasters—such as the freak storm in late June that buried Guadalajara, Mexico, in hail—are happening at the rate of one per week. (Photo: Ulises Ruiz / AFP / Getty)

by Carolyn Kormann
Given that the fate of millions of species, the future livelihoods of current high schoolers, and the stability of modern civilization rests in the balance, the only word to describe the situation is: emergency


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the State Department in Washington. (Photo: Michael Brochstein/Sipa via AP Images)

by Samuel Moyn
The Commission on Unalienable Rights is a laboratory for new collaborations between the religious right and the secular far right


In March 2010, a rally by thousands of striking USW ... the world. (Photo: United Steelworkers)

by Leo Gerard
For labor to secure gains, in the United States or Canada or anywhere, workers must mobilize. We have to bring everyone together, women, men, poor people, people of color, gay people—all working people

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