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News & Views | 2/23/21

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) walks to the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol on February 10, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The $15 minimum wage is overwhelmingly popular with the American people. One person should not be allowed to hold relief hostage."

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Textbooks and notebooks line tables inside a classroom at a detention facility for unaccompanied migrant children on Sunday, February 21, 2021 in Carrizo Springs, Texas. (Photo: Sergio Flores/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Kids need a place to call home—that's why they should be with their families, friends, and community members."


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday opposed the confirmation of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. (Photos: Chip Somodevilla and Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The senator said he opposed Tom Vilsack's confirmation "because at a time when corporate consolidation of agriculture is rampant and family farms are being decimated, we need a secretary who is prepared to vigorously take on corporate power in the industry."


Lawrence Ferlinghetti in City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in 1977. (Photo: Janet Fries/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Lawrence Ferlinghetti kicked open the door to free up publishing in this country. He risked a great deal for a lot of books that are now considered classics."

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) talks to reporters before returning to the Senate Chamber during the fifth day of former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on February 13, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is an anti-immigrant, low-wage bill masquerading as an attempt to help American workers."


A new report by WWF International and 15 other groups warns nearly one in three freshwater fishes are at risk of extinction (Photo: Camilo Díaz/WWF Colombia)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Humanity can't afford to lose any more of the world's forgotten fishes or the freshwater ecosystems they inhabit."


Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), President Joe Biden's nominee for interior secretary, speaks during her Senate confirmation hearing on February 23, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jim Watson-Pool/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The opposition to Congresswoman Haaland's confirmation is narrow and guided by money, not the qualifications or historic importance of what the nomination of Deb Haaland will do for this country."


Person holds up cell phone with Facebook news feed

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It shouldn't be up to Facebook and Google to cherry pick and groom publishers it deems acceptable for side deals."


Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein attend a ceremony for the arrival of a plane carrying a shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on January 10, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Deeply, deeply messed up... Honduras, 7,500 miles away, will get some but Palestinians living under Israeli control still neglected."


Protesters in Mandalay call for an end to the military coup regime and restoration of civilian rule in Myanmar on February 22, 2021. (Photo: Kaung Zak Hein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We don't want the junta, we want democracy," said one protester. "We want to create our own future."


A kid sits in front of her computer as she does school work at her home on September 27, 2020 in New York City.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It's bad enough when commercial apps deliberately frustrate and manipulate children into desiring in-game purchases, but Prodigy’s insidious business model is creating a new form of inequality in classrooms."

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It took decades to overcome the Jim Crow laws imposed at the end of Reconstruction. (Photo: Michael Fleshman/Flickr/cc)

by Jesse Jackson
In state after state, Republicans want to suppress voting because they know they are a minority party.


Frances McDormand and Chloé Zhao speak onstage at the drive-in premiere of Nomadland in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

by Chuck Collins
Watch the movie. Then read the book.


Social Security card. (Photo: Getty/Stock Photo/Tetra Images)

by Sarah Rawlins
Wage cap allows millionaires to stop contributing to Social Security on February 23, 2021.


Wendy's in Athens, Ohio. (Photo by Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Michael Windsor
It's clear that consumer outreach can motivate these companies to do the right thing, we just need more of it right now.


Dawn breaks over homes and sandstone formations near the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, which is closed until further notice on the Navajo Reservation on Sunday, May 24, 2020 in Oljato-Monument Valley, AZ. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Laura Flanders
How do we explain the fact that of the 55,000 homes in the Navajo Nation, about 15,000 don’t have electricity—now, or at any time?


Isn’t the American social safety net supposed to help the vulnerable in times of economic distress? As it happens, at least compared to those of other wealthy countries, it’s been remarkably ineffective. (Photo: Getty/Stock Photo/Catherine Falls Commercial)

by Rajan Menon
A field guide to our threadbare social safety net.

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