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News & Views | 10/16/19

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One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 10, 2018. - Advocacy group Avaaz is calling attention to what the groups says are hundreds of millions of fake accounts still spreading disinformation on Facebook. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

by Timothy Karr
While the social media giant wraps itself in the banner of free expression and political speech, it serves more as a scrim to hide its continued spread of political disinformation to tens of millions of voters in advance of the 2020 elections.

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Political journalists on Wednesday questioned whether a letter from President Donald Trump to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, leaked by the White House to Fox News, was authentic—expressing shock over the president's sophomoric threats and demand that the two "work out a good deal!"


New York Attorney General Letitia James

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Consumers advocates called out Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday for a party-line vote approving a "blatantly anti-competitive" proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, the third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers in the United States.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The plan assessed in a new study by the Urban Institute, said Matt Bruenig, "uses hospital reimbursement rates that are 15 percent higher than the rates in the M4A legislation, meaning that its cost estimates are much higher than the actual costs of M4A."


Writer George Monbiot is arrested by police officers after being arrested in Trafalgar Square on October 16, 2019 in London.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"There is nothing more inconvenient than being hit by a Category 5 hurricane, by having a wildfire raze your town."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Mayor Pete sounds like he's on the payroll of the Republican National Committee."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Campaign just went from too white to too urban. That's U R B A N for those who couldn't hear the whistle from the back."

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by Michael Winship
The White House theocrats may be the biggest danger of all.


A Yemeni collects items amidst the rubble of a destroyed funeral hall building following reported airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition air-planes on the capital Sanaa on October 8, 2016. (Photo: MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images)

by Kathy Kelly
"Strike with creativity!" proclaims Raytheon.


Today’s overpaid CEOs are unlikely to start sharing that good life—and the wealth that finances it—more equitably without public policies to prod them in this direction. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Sarah Anderson
CEO-worker pay gaps are the clearest proof that corporations like Mattel and many others don't respect their employees.


Why are anyone’s love life, family, and identity a referendum? Why are they a debate? Why must we plead our case to not get fired for who we love in front of the Supreme Court? (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Jill Richardson
Before I came out, I thought it was normal to "debate" our right to marry or hold a job. Now I know it’s not—at all.


Many Americans—including several presidential candidates—have begun asking whether the Supreme Court should be reformed. (Photo: Screenshot/Youtube)

by Robert Reich
In an era of increasing political polarization, we should rethink how the Court is organized in order to rebuild public trust.


Bernie 2020 has more than a pulse. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Eric Levitz
Sanders was better, crisper, and funnier than ever before.

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