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News & Views | 10/3/19

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President Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, before boarding Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Florida.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Oh, it's on—but someone isn't listening or can't read (or both)."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Warning policymakers in the U.S. and other nuclear powers to rapidly stop nuclear proliferation, researchers at Rutgers University released a study Wednesday showing that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill 125 million people instantly before causing global mass starvation.


A woman from Honduras holds her child

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The ACLU and other attorneys filed a federal lawsuit in the Arizona U.S. District Court Thursday "seeking damages on behalf of thousands of traumatized children and parents who were forcibly torn from each other under the Trump administration's illegal practice of separating families at the border."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Today's executive order is yet another giveaway to the corporations that run Medicare Advantage plans."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The people of California just went up against the most powerful corporate lobby in the country—and won."


President Donald Trump answers questions while departing the White House on October 03, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump is scheduled to travel to Florida today before returning to Washington later this evening.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Let's be very clear what’s happening here: Trump is openly asking foreign governments to interfere in the 2020 presidential election against his political rivals."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"None of us know when a medical emergency might affect us. And no one should fear going bankrupt if it occurs. Medicare for All!"

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If any president is deserving of impeachment, it is Trump. (Photo: YouTube screen shot)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
If Trump survives an impeachment vote because his backers in the Senate refuse to abandon him, he may go on to lose at the polls because of the impeachment process.


The Oligarchs have accumulated massive power, all at the expense of the people. (Photo by Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by John Atcheson
The Democratic Party and the mainstream press are doing their best to make all records tell the same tale, and they’re doing it as part of a systematic coup by the oligarchy that has been four decades in the making.


School children shout slogans during a strike and protest by students highlighting inadequate progress to address climate change in Sydney on March 15, 2019. Around the world, during a week of rolling and coordinated strikes and marches, more than 7 millions people demanded bold action to address the planetary emergency. (Photo: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)

by António Guterres
Around the world an unstoppable movement takes hold


This is a force that has seldom made an appearance in presidential debates or campaigns. Certainly it’s one of the forces behind gerrymandering and voter suppression. As far as I can tell, it’s not a force within the reach of democracy. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
Trump may be a pioneer in bringing reckless, unrestrained narcissism into the role of national leadership, but he’s also a symptom of something wrong with this country that far transcends his stumbling ineptitude.


After all, the future doesn’t belong to him or to me. It belongs to my kids and your kids and all the generations to follow. (Photo: Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

by Frida Berrigan
Trumping the future would mean no future at all for my three kids


IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig at the Capitol on May 15, 2019, in Washington. Rettig says increasing audit rates of the wealthy depends on whether the IRS budget grows. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

by Paul Kiel
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.

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