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News & Views | 2/24/21

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Protestors gather on Bolyston Street in front of a Verizon store during a net neutrality rally on December 7, 2017.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Now we're one step closer to net neutrality being the law of the land."

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President Joe Biden speaks about coronavirus relief in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. on February 22, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's not our student debt—but we still want Biden to forgive it."


Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) remotely questions U.S. Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on August 24, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"DeJoy is daring Senate Democrats to do something about him."


A person sleeps on a park bench on September 10, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
57% of the electorate thinks the government doesn't spend enough on anti-poverty initiatives, while 56% want to see more investment in education and healthcare.

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A water protector ascends nearly 40 feet in the air on a bi-pod blocking an entry road to Enbridge Line 3 worksites. (Photo: Giniw Collective)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Anti-pipeline campaigners locked themselves to an overturned car and engaged in other forms of civil disobedience as the fight against the tar sands project in Minnesota continues.


Dr. Joseph Varon talks to a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) during Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center on November 26, 2020 in Houston, Texas.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is unseemly that billionaires have experienced such gains as we mark a half a million lives lost and millions more who have lost their health, wealth, and jobs."


Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed a sweeping criminal justice reform package. (Photo: JB Pritzker/Twitter)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The move comes as part of a broader measure featuring what the ACLU called "important changes to policing and our criminal justice system."


A view of the unlawful Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The groups said that the previous administration's order "runs counter to the Biden administration's policy of opposing settlement activity and unilateral annexation of territory."


People wait in line for early voting at C.T. Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center on December 14, 2020 in Atlanta.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Election laws should be structured to increase voter participation, not to suppress it."


Rep. Jamaal Bowman is a former teacher and principal. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"It's a mistake that reflects a broader problem in American education," the first-term congressman and former educator asserted.


Edit Krnanska, age 7, splashes and plays in floodwaters around the city dock in Annapolis, Maryland on July 23, 2018. (Photo: Marvin Joseph/<em>The Washington Post</em> via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This lawsuit shifts the costs back to where they belong, on those whose knowledge, deception, and pursuit of profits brought these dangers to our shores."

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A postal worker gives a thumbs-up to demonstrators protesting the Trump administration's sabotage of the U.S. Postal Service on August 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images for MoveOn)

by Monique Morrissey
Policymakers should focus on rebuilding the Postal Service after the Trump years.


Migrants are helped ashore from a Border Force vessel after crossing the Straits of Dover from France to Dover on the south east coast of England, on September 14, 2020. (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

by Elsie Roderiques
Communicating the value of people and nature in financial terms comes at a cost.


Basing our climate policy on domination abroad and closed borders at home would be a disaster. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Ashik Siddique
Climate change poses an existential threat. That doesn’t mean we should further empower an already bloated Pentagon.


Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (R) arrives for a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on August 5, 2020. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Lisa Graves, Evan Vorpahl
Despite the destructive sabotage by the USPS Board of Governors and Louis DeJoy hope for meaningful reforms still exists.


Solar Panels on the roof of a house along Lovat Rd in Beaufort Park in Fulton Maryland. (Photo by Benjamin C. Tankersley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Julia Travers
Proven strategies can make solar power available to lower income people.


The opportunity for Big Pharma to develop a magic bullet to treat Covid has led to an intensified campaign to discredit Vitamin D research. (Photo: TaxRebate.org.uk/Flickr/cc)

by Jonathan Cook
Doctors have largely been trained into complicity with a medical money machine.

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