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News & Views | 1/13/21

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) puts down the gravel as she presides the U.S. House of Representatives vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C on January 13, 2021. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"If Congress had a shred of decency, this impeachment would be unanimous."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Regardless of what he leaks to the press, McConnell remains Trump's 'Enabler-in-Chief.'"



Image from Public Citizen's new analysis "Bankrolling the Disenfranchisers."

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"In public, corporate America says it's disgusted. But behind the scenes, corporations and industry groups have heavily funded lawmakers who rejected election results and incited the insurrection."



Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) conduct a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center responding to negative comments by President Donald Trump that were directed at the freshmen House Democrats on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Photo: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Courage is being scared to death, but remaining resolute."



Legislators and advocates are increasingly urging the breaking up of tech titans like Facebook and Google. (Image: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"If these firms are so powerful that they can be the primary gatekeepers between a president and the public, then they have outgrown democratic control."



Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) speaking on the House floor in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump on Wednesday, January 13, 2021. (Photo: Screenshot/C-SPAN)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"What does it mean when they boo the Black congresswoman denouncing white supremacy?" asked the freshman Democrat from Missouri.



U.S. Capitol Police install a metal detector outside the House of Representatives Chamber, on the very spot where less than a week earlier violent insurrectionists attempted to smash their way through and halt the certification of the Electoral College votes on January 12, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"What you will learn is they are the same ones who refuse to protect American children from gun violence and Americans from Covid."



Supporters of President Donald Trump enter the U.S. Capitol's Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators breached security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated certification of the a 2020 presidential election results. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The group warns the nation is "dangerously vulnerable to those who prefer inequity to fairness, hate over unity, and impunity over justice."



Police advance on demonstrators who are protesting the killing of George Floyd on May 30, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
These proposed laws are "aimed at police brutality protests, not right-wing insurrection."



Then-Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush (D-Mo.) spoke outside of the Democratic National Committee headquarters on November 19, 2020 in Washington, D.C. She was sworn in on January 3, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you work at McDonald's and you don't wear the uniform, you don't work that day. If you won't abide by the rules of this job, go find another one."


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The events made what should have already been obvious excruciatingly clear: every day that Trump is in office is a dangerous one for this country. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jeff Hauser
Biden must rid the government of Trump holdovers wherever possible and reverse Trump’s attacks as quickly as possible.



Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest in the US Capitol Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (Photo: Saul Loeb/ AFP)

by Bill Moyers, Heather Cox Richardson
What happened in the 1850s and what happened in the present are very similar in a number of ways, though the symbol of the insurrectionist Confederate army never flew in that nation's capitol—not once—until January 6, 2021.



"Human Rights Watch has documented that the Saudi-led coalition was using internationally banned cluster munitions in at least 16 attacks that targeted populated areas, killing scores of civilians including women and children." (Photo: © UNICEF Yemen)

by Mahad Dirieh
The crisis in Yemen is largely America's making. America needs to fix it now.



Customers and cashiers at a Publix supermarket in Orlando, Florida. (Photo: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Karen Dolan
Despite our sharp divisions, a majority of Americans are united behind many policies to combat poverty and reduce inequality.



Will we connect our various struggles, labor, environmental, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-imperialist, and unite to give humanity a chance to reverse the course toward oblivion? (Photo by Astrid Riecken/Getty Images)

by Faramarz Farbod
Expect nothing transformative from the governing class. The future depends on what We the People will choose to do.



It’s time for different tools and a different mindset. (Photo: Ploughshares Fund)

by Sharon Squassoni
There is no winning a nuclear arms race and no winning a nuclear war. The use of any nuclear weapon in conflict is a loss for humanity.


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