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News & Views | 2/25/21

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Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) listens to remarks from Xavier Becerra during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Becerra's nomination to be HHS secretary in Washington, D.C. on February 24, 2021. (Photo: Michael Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The worst thing is that these people aren't dumb. They know about inflation... They just don't think people who make their food and clean their bathrooms deserve the same things they got."

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Reps. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), seen here in 2019, are among the progressive lawmakers who introduced the WATER Act of 2021 on Thursday.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Grave crises require robust solutions, and this is just what the WATER Act provides."


Rachel Levine speaks during her confirmation hearing to be Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Health and Human Services before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.(Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"It's always interesting how libertarians claim that people should be left alone, but then expect everyone to conform to their personal views."


Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing December 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When people vote in the midterms, you're not gonna be able to say, 'Well I'm sorry we couldn't raise the minimum wage because the parliamentarian ruled that we couldn't do it.'"

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President Donald Trump, who vowed to "bomb the shit out of" Islamic State militants and "take out their families," presided over a dramatic escalation in air and ground attacks on cities including Mosul, Iraq—shown here under U.S. bombardment—in which thousands of civilians were killed. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The map raises a number of questions. Why is the United States militarily active in so many countries? Are these operations meeting the stated U.S. goals of reducing violence against Americans?"


Opposition to the Mountain Valley Pipeline Project is visible on a roadside sign in Bent Mountain, Virginia. (Photo: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The institutions dumping funds into this unnecessary fracked gas project are just pouring their money into a 300-mile long money pit," said a Sierra Club staffer.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our entire country is fed up with USPS leadership."


A Palestinian health worker gives a dose of the Russian Sputnik coronavirus vaccine in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip on February 24, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The U.S. senator from Vermont denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for sending spare vaccines overseas "while so many Palestinians in the occupied territories are still waiting."


Thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets on July 26, 2017 in opposition to anti-trans policy moves by President Donald Trump.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trans kids have a higher risk of attempting suicide because they so often encounter people who deny their humanity. We are sending our love to Rep. Marie Newman and her daughter."


Rep. Gerry Connolly, (D-Va.) speaks during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing February 24, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jim Watson-Pool/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The congressman added that "you lose the right to complain about partisanship once you've fanned the flames of violent insurrection."


"The United States must become a country where everyone receives the healthcare they need, and the best way to achieve that goal is to enact Medicare for All," said Ady Barkan on February 23, 2021. (Photo: DNCC via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The pandemic has made it painfully clear that the status quo is unacceptable," said another campaigner after a local community vote that speaks to a national trend.

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In our year of the plague, Trump went from neglect and incompetence to sabotaging the national response, causing massive death. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Mitchell Zimmerman
Donald Trump placed his perceived political interests over stopping a pandemic.


Regardless of the exact figures, it’s clear that we can’t afford not to change our budget priorities. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Lorah Steichen
The U.S. is officially back in the Paris Climate Agreement. But Biden must do much, much more than restore the status quo under Obama.


President Joe Biden speaks during an event to announce new cabinet nominations at the Queen Theatre on December 11, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Michael T. Klare
Biden, climate change, and China.


For the People Act would end the extreme gerrymandering that distorts and diminishes the will of the people. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Ben Jealous
Republicans and Democratic voters agree: We need to make sure leaders actually represent "we the people."


Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, moderates a discussion on February 12, 2018. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

by Norman Solomon
Progressive activists have ample cause to be alarmed at the prospect of Tanden becoming OMB director—one of the most powerful and consequential positions in the entire Executive Branch.


Texas struggles with unprecedented cold and power outages. (Photo: Getty)

by Andrew McCormick
Journalists must shirk the habit of framing everything as a two-sided debate.

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