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News & Views | 8/5/21

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by Andrea Germanos
The labor leader is being remembered as "a relentless champion of workers' rights, workplace safety, worker-centered trade, democracy, and so much more."

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by Jessica Corbett
"Gov. Abbott's executive order is blatantly unconstitutional and threatens to turn Texas into a 'show me your papers' state."



by Jake Johnson
Denying responsibility for a deadly drone strike in the Arabian Sea, the Iranian Foreign Ministry warned that "any anti-Iran adventurism will receive an immediate and decisive response."



by Brett Wilkins
"As Republican-led legislatures weaponize the Big Lie to attack our free and fair elections, it is more important than ever for Congress to affirm that voters have a right to participate in our elections."



by Andrea Germanos
"Today's proposals just aren't enough to take us where we need to go."



by Julia Conley
"I'd rather them come after our money than we're putting people in [funeral homes]," said one school board chair.



by Kenny Stancil
"Utility shutoffs—from water to electricity to broadband internet—leave our most vulnerable communities without essential life-sustaining services and are especially unacceptable during a deadly pandemic," said the Michigan Democrat.



by Jake Johnson
The new survey shows Democrats' $3.5 trillion reconciliation proposal is slightly more popular than the far smaller $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill.



by Jake Johnson
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki touted U.S. vaccine donations to poor countries, but public health advocates have warned the Biden administration isn't doing nearly enough.


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by Umme Hoque
Biden has a perfect opportunity to deliver progressive change to the millennials who voted for him.



by Adelaide Rutendo Mazwarira
Sadly, the Forum was an exclusive and controlled global space—not the political space many Global South feminists needed and wanted.



by Andrew Bacevich
The United States has a war problem. And just about no one is keen to talk about it.



by Marcy Winograd
Climate activists demand COP26 reduce military carbon emissions


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