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News & Views | 2/19/21

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Shoppers walk past a bare shelf as people stock up on necessities at the H-E-B grocery store on February 18, 2021 in Austin, Texas.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"AOC helped raise $1 million for Texas relief as Ted Cruz made his way back home from Cancún."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"No one has been safe from their path of destruction."


Republican state legislators in Georgia are pursuing election reforms that critics warn will limit ballot access. (Photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This bill is Jim Crow with a suit and tie," warns one local critic.


Employees at the Triumph Foods plant in St. Joseph Missouri process pig parts. (Photo: USDA)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Plants adopting the Trump-approved New Swine Inspection System had, on average, nearly double the rate of fecal and digestive matter contamination of other facilities.

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Linda McCoy throws wood on a fire for heat in her home in Houston on February 17, 2021. (Photo: Mark Felix for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The GOP is erroneously blaming frozen wind turbines for power outages because the Green New Deal is "the biggest legislative threat against the corrupt powers responsible for (and benefiting from) the suffering unfolding now," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The organizations said the guidelines flew in the face of promises "to fully break from the harmful deportation policies of both the Trump and Obama presidencies."


Audience members hold signs during the BET special "Young, Gifted, and Broke: Our Student Loan Crisis" on September 10, 2019 at Howard Theater in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It's almost like the American people want government to meet the scale of the crisis," said New York Congressman Mondaire Jones.


Uber driver Yasar Gorur wears personal protective equipment while cleaning his vehicle on April 14, 2020 in London.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This has been a grueling four-year legal battle for our members—but it's ended in a historic win."


Students at City University of New York (CUNY) demonstrate on November 12, 2015 for free tuition and student debt forgiveness. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The vast majority of borrowers that benefit from forgiveness hail from low- and lower-income communities," the study's authors affirmed.


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at the Hotel Vermont on March 11, 2020 in Burlington. (Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"There is no rational reason why Medicare pays nearly three times more than Medicaid and about twice as much as the VA for the same exact medicine."


This aerial photo shows a large swathe of Indonesian rainforest destroyed by deforestation in service of palm oil plantations on Borneo. (Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Human well-being lies in protecting the health of the planet," said Secretary-General António Guterres. "It's time to reevaluate and reset our relationship with nature."

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When we consider the immensity of the transformation needed, the odds of achieving an ecological civilization might seem daunting—but it’s far from impossible. (Photo by Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Jeremy Lent
A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it. We need to forge a new era for humanity—one that is defined, at its deepest level, by a transformation in the way we make sense of the world, and a concomitant revolution in our...


An injured Yemeni child and a man receive treatment at a hospital, following an explosion at a wedding hall during the night, in the Yemeni Red Sea city of Hudeida, on January 2, 2021. - Five women were killed when a projectile exploded at a New Year's Day wedding party in Hodeida, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation. The government and Huthi rebels blamed each other for the Friday night attack near Hodeida's airport, a frontline between their forces on the edge of the key Huthi-held port. (Photo by

by Abdi Nor Iftin
Mothers are helplessly lowering their toddlers to graves next to the remnants of American-made bombs used by Saudi Arabian forces.


"This widening income inequality," the commission posits, "has widened inequalities in health."(Photo: Getty/Stock Photo/francescoch)

by Sam Pizzigati
The answer from a blue-ribbon medical commission on the Trump years: decades of rising inequality.


We must reject the siren call of supremacy—that would put one group down to elevate our own—and the forces that would divide us. (Photo: Getty/ Stock Photo/ smartboy10)

by Debra Gore-Mann
We must train our eyes on the true enemy: white supremacy in all its forms.


A sign outside the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in South Dakota, one of the countrys largest known Coronavirus clusters, is seen on April 21, 2020 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. - Smithfield Foods pork plant in South Dakota is closed indefinitely in the wake of its coronavirus outbreak.(Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

by Tyler Lobdell
Smithfield is pushing a massive greenwashing campaign to dupe consumers into thinking its products are environmentally friendly.


Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) walks to the Senate Chamber on the third day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Miles Mogulescu
Sinema's and Manchin's decisions may well determine whether America remains a democracy or whether it's indefinitely distorted by minority rule.

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