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News & Views | 6/25/21

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Chauvin verdit

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"This historic sentence brings the Floyd family and our nation one step closer to healing by delivering closure and accountability."

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right-wing spies

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Wyoming's far-right promotes tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories," said one of the operation's targets. "It makes sense that they would use spies to try to attack their opposition or uncover some imagined liberal plot."


A black-footed ferret in Colorado

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Declaring the extinction crisis to be a national emergency would unlock key presidential powers that will halt the unraveling of the planet’s life-support systems."


person in water mister

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The West has never seen a drought like this, especially so early in the dry season."

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Merrick Garland

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Where we see violations of federal law, we will act," said U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, calling the lawsuit "the first of many steps to ensure that all eligible voters can cast a vote."


Rep. Jan Schakowsky

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We believe the first step for the United States must be to urgently restore American policy positions conducive to the prospects for peace."


People wait to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a rally at Brooklyn College on March 2, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Two-thirds of U.S. adults want the federal government to implement policies to reduce the worsening gap between rich and poor.


Missouri resident receives coronavirus vaccine

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If people elsewhere in the country are looking to us and saying, 'No thanks' and they are getting vaccinated, that is good," said one health official in Missouri. "We will be the canary."


Floridians rally in support of unemployment benefits

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Cutting unemployment insurance for infrastructure" is how one analyst described a funding source proposed by a bipartisan group of senators and the White House.

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delta_variant_india

by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
While this inequity persists, none of us will truly be safe.


covid_origins

by Jeffrey D. Sachs
An international and independent investigation to examine the alternative hypotheses is urgently needed, and the U.S. and Chinese governments should cooperate fully and transparently with such an inquiry.


naftali-bennett

by Ramzy Baroud
While the Americans and the Israelis are busy engaging in the ever-familiar ritual of 'putting lipstick on a pig,' the Palestinians remain irrelevant in all of this, as their political aspirations continue to be discounted, and their freedom delayed.


Michael Flynn

by Lawrence Wilkerson
At this point, he should clearly be disciplined, and severely—so why isn't he?


India Walton

by Laura Flanders
India Walton is poised to be Buffalo’s next mayor, the first woman, the first nurse, the first socialist in a big U.S. city in decades.


Mcconnell and Manchin

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
It is highly unlikely that the kind of measures that are necessary to safeguard democracy from its imminent threats can be signed into law this year or the next given the current balance of forces.

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