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News & Views | 8/31/21

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by Jake Johnson
"I've got a message for the healthcare industry: Your days of writing legislation are over."

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by Jessica Corbett
"If agencies want to remain relevant, and attractive places to work for top young talent, they need to end their work for the worst polluters on the planet."



by Julia Conley
"He may have been wrong about Iraq in 2003, but Biden is right about Afghanistan in 2021."



by Kenny Stancil
"We are in a climate emergency," one meteorologist said in response to the massive blaze.


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by Jake Johnson
"We need a leader at the helm that will take bold and decisive action to eliminate climate risk."



by Jake Johnson
"They want billions more for war even as we withdraw from Afghanistan. We have to stop this amendment."


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by Michael Winship
Some "opposed ideas" about a twenty-year war.



by Sarah Lazare
"This was a stupid occupation and invasion where nobody received anything," says Afghan activist Nematullah Ahangosh.



by Clive Stafford Smith
What the U.S. got wrong about Afghanistan.



by George Capaccio
Since the U.S. has done so much to destroy Afghanistan and bring even more misery to the people, we are obligated, I believe, to provide more-than-generous humanitarian aid and to safely evacuate all those who wish to leave.



by David Bacon
The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should force a reckoning with a long history of military intervention.



by Robert Reich
America's children shouldn't be held hostage to a partisan political brawl. It's time we focused solely on their learning and their safety.


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Environment America

Center for Biological Diversity

Stand.earth

Oxfam International

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