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News & Views | 8/25/21

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An evacuated resident points in the direction of his home following a flash flood, which came as Tropical Storm Henri made landfall, in Helmetta, New Jersey on August 22, 2021. (Photo: Tom Brenner/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil
A major report on climate says both greenhouse gas concentrations and global sea levels hit record highs in 2020.

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OnlyFans creator

by Jessica Corbett
"This is welcome news, but sex workers' livelihoods shouldn't depend on the whims of individual platforms," said the ACLU as others warned the company could still reverse course.


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by Julia Conley
"Poll after poll shows that the overwhelmingly majority of voters support bold action."


Pelosi and PPC

by Jessica Corbett
"We refuse to let conservatives stop us from getting what people need and deserve," said the youth-led Sunrise Movement. "We have to pass a bold reconciliation bill first."

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Erik Prince

by Andrea Germanos
The Blackwater founder previously pushed the Trump administration to privatize the Afghan war.


2001 merger

by Jessica Corbett
"Monopoly is a threat to representative democracy—and that protecting our democracy requires effective antitrust."


A child in Madagascar eats a nutritional supplement distributed by an NGO.

by Julia Conley
"These people have done nothing to contribute to climate change," said one U.N. official. "They don't burn fossil fuels... and yet they are bearing the brunt of climate change."


Migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border

by Andrea Germanos
"We put an end to the Trump presidency but we still need to put an end to his cruel, harmful, and deadly policies including this xenophobic one."


Tenant rights activists protesting inadequate relief for renters during the Covid-19 pandemic leave prop bodies outside the home of New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh on February 28, 2021 in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil
"We fought to extend the eviction moratorium to give states a chance to distribute these funds, but time is of the essence," said Rep. Mondaire Jones.


John Lewis Voting Rights

by Jon Queally
"As long as we let the filibuster stand, this necessary bill will be stuck in the Senate," warned Congresswoman Jayapal. "It’s your right to vote or the filibuster."

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Justice Lewis Powell announcing his retirement

by Nancy MacLean, Lisa Graves
For the health of our democracy, we need to disarm the war on knowledge and reason that was inspired by the 'Powell Memo' and carried out by the Koch network and its right-wing army.


Chief Justice John Roberts

by Randy Baker
The extraordinary lengths to which the Court has shown it will go to enable the rich to effectively buy elections with its blithe disregard for the rights of people should terrify all those concerned with the survival of our extremely weakened and problematic democracy.


Afgans seeking refuge

by Nadia Ahmad
The American departure from Afghanistan was inevitable. We shouldn't ask what went wrong? We need to ask: what could possibly have gone right?

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