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News & Views | 4/27/21

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President Donald Trump looks on as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during a news conference on the Covid-19 outbreak at the White House on February 26, 2020. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Trump administration gave Big Pharma billions but refused to disclose full terms of these deals."

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Activists led by members of RISE St. James rally and march against Formosa Plastics' $12-billion Sunshine Project in St. James Parish, Louisiana in this undated photo. (Photo: Story Center/YouTube)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We want clean air, water, and soil. It is incumbent on any responsible corporation to listen to our community and cease all business relationships with Formosa Plastics Group."


Then-U.S. President Donald Trump participates in the first presidential debate against then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Win McNamee via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
According to the latest surveys of adults in 14 other nations, favorable views of the U.S. have increased by an average of nine points since Biden's inauguration.


An LED truck displaying messages denouncing mass deportations of immigrants drives past the U.S. Capitol Building on February 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He must make a choice: repeat the mistakes of the Obama administration or do everything in his power to end the cruelty of detentions, expulsions, and deportations."

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The Internal Revenue Service Building is shown on July 22, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The IRS should have more resources to do its job and make the wealthy pay their fair share."


Palestinians inspect the debris of a quarantine center established to fight the coronavirus pandemic after Israeli soldiers demolished the single-story center in Hebron, West Bank on July 21, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The prominent watchdog group's new analysis finds the oppression of Palestinians has reached a "threshold."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said Turner is running on "the exact progressive platform that we believe is necessary."


Activists with Our Revolution hold $15 minimum wage signs outside the Capitol complex on Thursday, February 25, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Economists have estimated that hiking the wage floor to $15 for federal contract workers would result in direct raises for at least 240,000 low-wage employees.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The world is not only watching, it's judging."


Healthcare workers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' New York Harbor Healthcare System listen to Marcus Ashby, an ICU nurse at a Manhattan hospital, speak as they participate in a national day of action on August 5, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Strong enforceable standards that require employers to develop workplace Covid-19 safety plans," said AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, "are necessary for reducing infections and deaths, and beating this virus."


Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks during a rally at the Amazon Spheres and headquarters in Seattle, Washington on March 26, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This resolution demonstrates our movement's rejection of the status quo of profit-driven vaccine apartheid and vaccine nationalism, and our fight for vaccine internationalism."

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Climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline held a rally in midtown Manhattan on March 3, 2021, at BlackRock and JP Morgan Chase, two of the worlds biggest funders of climate destruction, to urge the two companies to end their support for the dangerous proposed Line 3 pipeline project and to stop funding fossil fuels and forest destruction. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jennifer Morgan
The export of hydrocarbons must end. President Biden can lead the way by kicking off a fossil fuel phaseout in the U.S.


Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) speaks at a news conference to reintroduce the Green New Deal and introduce the Civilian Climate Corps Act at the Capitol Reflecting Pool near the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Ed Markey
America needs to get back to work, and we can do that while confronting the intersecting crises of the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice, economic inequality, and climate change.


Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses 'Populism and the Right' during the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel March 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Timothy Karr
Carlson's enormous paycheck comes out of the pockets of millions of people who never watch his show or anything else on Fox.


War correspondent, journalist, author, and activist Reese Erlich (1947-2021) was a longtime contributor to numerous outlets, including Common Dreams. (Photo: via UMass Amherst)

by Norman Solomon
The longtime war correspondent, who died earlier this month, embodied the honesty and deep humanity that makes for the very best journalists.


Queue of people at 7 in the morning waiting to receive the vaccine during the Phase 1 of the Covid-19 vaccination program at Mbagathi Hospital, in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 12, 2021. (Photo: Robert Bonet/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Joseph Stiglitz, Lori Wallach
Waiving intellectual property rights so developing countries could produce more vaccines would make a big difference in reaching global herd immunity.


Republicans understand this. They understand that liberal democracy is a potential means of serious challenges to the privileges and inequalities they seek to defend. (Photo: Getty Images/Stock Photo)

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
It is hard to see how our current injustices can be repaired without working through and then "democratizing" these liberal democratic institutions.

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