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News & Views | 9/25/19

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A memo, released Wednesday morning, of the Trump call. (Image: screenshot)

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The president sought to use the powers of the United States government to investigate a political opponent. We have no choice but to impeach."

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A demonstrator with a sign reading "impeach now"

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally caved to pressure from a growing cohort of Democratic lawmakers and formally launched an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump Tuesday evening, grassroots groups on Wednesday announced new efforts to urge undecided members of Congress to back "impeachment now!"


U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2019 in New York City. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that the House will launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
While critics of the president assert his behavior is in blatant violation of the law and sworn duty, Trump claims request for Ukraine president to dig up dirt on Joe Biden—the leading Democratic candidate at the time—was a "beautiful" chat.



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A landmark United Nations climate report published Wednesday details the observed and anticipated future impacts of planet-heating emissions from human activity on the world's oceans and frozen zones—and warns of the emerging consequences for humanity, marine ecosystems, and the global environment.


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a national figure who has used her platform to promote bold policies on the climate crisis and healthcare, unveiled Wednesday a package of six economic justice bills to tackle American poverty and inequality.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The memorandum detailing President Donald Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky included a comment from Zelensky that anti-corruption watchdogs took particular interest in—as it offered clear evidence of the constitutional violations they've warned about since before Trump took office.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Terrible implications for our democracy if DOJ is saying that the solicitation of opposition research by a candidate from foreign governments is totally legal and totally cool."

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) answers questions on the potential of impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump on September 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. McConnell refused to answer hypothetical questions on the impeachment topic, but did indicate he was not provided a reason by the Trump administration for financial aid being withheld from Ukraine. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Lisa Gilbert
The party's silence makes it partly responsible for the fact that at the helm of the country is a corrupt and craven want-to-be autocrat who tramples the Constitution on a regular basis.


Impeachment supporters rally outside the White House. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Peter Certo
Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden.


New polling from Data for Progress shows that Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are united in their support for policies that would radically restructure the current system. (Photo: Floris Van Cauwelaert/flickr/cc)

by Nancy J. Altman, Sean McElwee
No industry is more unpopular than the pharmaceutical industry.


President Donald Trump shakes hands with Attorney General William Barr in the Oval Office. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/White House)

by Charles P. Pierce
The Trumpists release a non-transcript that is nonetheless incriminating—for the president, for his attorney general, and for Rudy Giuliani.


United Auto Workers members picket outside of General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly in Detroit, on Sept. 22, 2019. (Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
Auto workers, nurses, pilots, hotel workers—they’re all going on strike. Trump boasts about the "economic miracle," but most workers aren’t experiencing it.


Last Friday, as four million young people marched in the world’s capitals for action on climate, countless more were on the picket line supporting autoworkers who are out on strike. (Photo: Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

by Laura Flanders
We want a future, a future we can live in, in a society that values people and planet, now and coming up.

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