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News & Views | 10/4/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The online small dollar operations of Bernie and Warren are disrupting the old campaign model."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This video lifts up so many marginalized voices that are consistently downplayed and discounted by the corporate media. Bernie Sanders hears you."


Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stands with Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence and acknowledge the crowd on the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Pence is neck-deep in this scandal."


2016 protest outside supreme court

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Reproductive rights groups emphasized the importance of legal precedent after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case challenging an anti-choice Louisiana law—which will be the first abortion rights case since President Donald Trump's appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, joined the bench and shifted the court to the right.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I never expected anything this explicit in writing. It's truly astounding."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The public must see the transcript of Trump's call with Xi. And we need a leader who will stand up for our values."


Fact supporters march during the 2017 March for Science in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The committee losses "will undoubtedly result in a net loss of independent expert capacity and institutional knowledge and leave important work unfinished or underdeveloped."

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U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to protect and improve Medicare at the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center. (Photo: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Diane Archer
Trump's new executive order does nothing to hold the Medicare Advantage plans accountable for their fraudulent overcharges or their inappropriate denials of care and coverage. Rather, it rewards them.


Never has the drug industry accumulated more profits and government subsidies, yet so many patients cannot begin to afford lifesaving medicines. (Photo: NoHoDamon/Flickr/cc)

by Ralph Nader
There has never been so much but so little for the majority.


Jodie Evans with others outside of the United Against a Nuclear Iran conference in New York City. (Photo: Codepink)

by Jodie Evans
Sigal Mandelker’s cruel policies cost too many lives to ignore.


US President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order regarding Medicare at Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center October 3, 2019, in The Villages, Florida. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

by Bill C. Davis
The forces keeping this chaotic, renegade organism in place are oblivious to the harm they are doing to themselves and indifferent to the harm being claimed by others.


"Don’t we need, as a public, to understand what the government is doing … behind closed doors?" (Photo: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)

by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
"NSA whistleblowers who did go through this process had their lives destroyed."


Over the course of three years, this administration has been chiseling away at our government’s advisory network. (Photo: Matthew Roth/flickr/cc)

by Genna Reed
This executive order was just another example of this administration seeking to cut science and information out of the government and decisionmaking process.

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