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News & Views | 4/26/21
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As US Lifts Export Ban to Assist India, Biden Urged to 'Keep His Word' by Supporting Vaccine Patent Waiver
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is a start. But not nearly enough. President Biden promised that
intellectual property law would not block the Global South from
producing the vaccine."
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As SCOTUS Takes Up NRA-Backed Gun Case, Calls Grow for Dems to 'Expand the Court'
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The choice has never been so clear. And the stakes can be measured in
human lives."
House Dems Propose Lifting 'Cruel' Ban on Former Drug Felons Receiving Food and Cash Aid
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by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Once a person has served their time, we should be ensuring they have
the tools to succeed and become productive members of society."
Slashing Methane Emissions Must Play Larger Role in Fighting Climate Crisis, UN Says
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The report confirms that "n atural gas is the precise opposite of a
climate solution," wrote author and activist Bill McKibben.
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'Halt This Nightmare': Alarm as Florida Set to Begin Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The release of genetically engineered mosquitoes puts Floridians, the
environment, and endangered species at risk in the midst of a pandemic."
Global Military Spending Grew to Nearly $2 Trillion in 2020 Despite Pandemic
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by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
At $778 billion, U.S. military expenditure—4.4% higher in 2020 than in
2019—accounted for 39% of the world total.
Rights Groups Demand Records on Trump Admin's 'Death Flight' Deportations of Cameroonian Asylum Seekers
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The government's mass deportations of Cameroonian and other Black
immigrants are inhumane and targeted."
Washington State Lawmakers Approve Capital Gains Tax on Wealthiest to Fund Public Education
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is the most equitable change to Washington state's upside-down tax
code in nearly 90 years," says the Washington State Budget and Policy
Center.
Share Vaccine Recipes With Poor During Pandemic? One of World's Richest Men Bill Gates Says 'No'
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Who appointed this billionaire head of global health?" asked one
critic. "Oh yeah, he did."
'Not a Surprise, But Terrifying': At India's Request, Twitter Blocks Posts Critical of Modi Covid Response
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by Common Dreams staff
"I'm sorry," said one critic, "but Modi's authoritarian government can
go to hell if they dare to silence the true human suffering."
Sanders, Warren Lead Call for Biden to Embrace 'Historic' Medicare Expansion
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Lowering the Medicare eligibility age is not only the right thing to do
from a public policy perspective," stated a letter to Biden on Sunday,
"it is also what the overwhelming majority of Americans support."
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Progressives Urge Biden to Go Bigger, Bolder, Faster in Spending and Tax Plans
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by Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh
Leading research and movement organizations and progressive Democrats
call for rapid passage of legislation to transform the economy.
Biden's 'America First Lite' Policies on Vaccine Sharing and Refugees Are a Terrible Look for the US
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by Will Bunch
With people dying in India's streets, Biden's failure to share vaccine
doses, ingredients, and tech is becoming a moral failure that will haunt
America.
Media Evasions on Racism and the Role of Derek Chauvin
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by Jeff Cohen
Although it's acknowledged that Black people and other people of color
are consistently at the bottom of the caste system, there's no
examination of the powerful interests that put them there.
How Lifting Children Out of Poverty Today Will Help Them in the Future
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by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Hilary Hoynes
When families with young children get access to cash welfare, that
support has even been linked to higher earnings in adulthood and longer
lives.
America's Ruinous Pursuit of Mission Impossible in Afghanistan
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by Rajan Menon
The graveyard of empires redux.
Cottontail, Dead at 12
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by Tim Whitehouse, Kyla Bennett
Cottontail, one of about 350 remaining North Atlantic right whales, did
not have an easy life.
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Census Apportionment Totals Released, Sets Redistricting Cycle in Motion
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Congress Must Pass S. 1 to Stop Partisan Gerrymandering
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