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News & Views | 4/28/21

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks during day two of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate at the East Room of the White House April 23, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Now is the time for Biden to back up his progressive messaging with climate action that will actually stop the crisis at the scale that science and justice demand."

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President-elect 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 Common Dreams staff
"Now—after just 100 days—I can report to the nation: America is on the move again. Turning peril into possibility. Crisis into opportunity. Setback into strength."


In a new video from the New York Times opinion section, people around the world were shocked and outraged by the high costs of healthcare in the United States. (Photo: New York Times)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The "excellent" video, said one viewer, exposes the "cruelty and inefficiency of our healthcare system."


Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) looks on during a press conference at a memorial site for Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. (Photo: KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jenna McGuire, staff writer
"History shows that the criminal justice system is not equipped to prosecute itself."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The New York governor " defrauded the public to sell more books," said s tate lawmaker Ron T. Kim.


Activists spell out #TaxTheRich in New York City on March 4, 2021. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
" The era of trickle-down nonsense is over—it's time to tax the rich. "


A picture taken on April 1, 2021 shows a sign on the facade at the headquarters of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The WTO's hyperglobalization rules shaped a global economy that is not working for most people, and it's due time to replace them."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"A judge had to conclude that there was probable cause that evidence of crime(s) would be found there" in order to allow the search of Giuliani's home.


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks with reporters in the Senate Subway on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Vermont senator urged Biden to include key drug-pricing reforms in his American Families Plan to stop Big Pharma from "ripping off the American people."


Human rights advocates in New York City protesting the incarceration of immigrants on July 30, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It's time to end our nation's newest system of mass incarceration of Black and Brown people."


Activists participate in an "Abolish ICE" protest against the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policies in New York City's Grand Central Station on August 29, 2019. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The move targeted a May 2017 directive requiring recipients of a $250 million law enforcement grant pool to cooperate with immigration authorities.

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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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