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News & Views | 11/6/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Pay attention. They're going to try to steal the Kentucky election right out in the open, in front of everyone."

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Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden attends the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Annual International Convention on June 28, 2019 in Chicago.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Make it stop."


Mark Zuckerberg

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After NBC News on Wednesday published a trove of leaked documents that show how Facebook "treated user data as a bargaining chip with external app developers," White House hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders declared that it is time "to break Facebook up."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Kentucky Democrats did not win by launching esoteric attacks on Bevin. They did it by staying lightning focused on the way that Bevin had hurt working class families."


NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Voting rights advocates celebrated a "huge win for democracy" Tuesday after New Yorkers approved a ballot measure that would establish ranked-choice voting in the nation's most populous city.


Seattle city council member Kshama Sawant may be heading to electoral defeat after a sustained campaign against her candidacy by Amazon.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's supposed to be a democratic process and it's not a democratic process when Amazon can contribute that much to basically a small election."


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
"XR protesters have been raising the alarm about the climate crisis. We need to listen to that alarm, not outlaw it."

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If Chenoweth is right and the million Chileans in the street have breached the tipping point for successful non-violent popular democracy, Chile may be leading the way to a global political and economic revolution. (Photo: RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP via Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies
It is entirely fitting that Chile should be in the vanguard of the protests sweeping the world in this Autumn of Discontent, since Chile served as the laboratory for the neoliberal transformation of economics and politics that has swept the world since the 1970s.


Democratic Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren, shown campaigning in Iowa, has released a plan for Medicare for All. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
Medicare for All is popular at first look. When the insurance and drug companies and other opponents unleash their arguments, people’s doubts grow.


Meals on Wheels and other HHS-funded community meal programs designed to support older adults could refuse to deliver food to older Americans who are Jewish, Muslim, or LGBTQ. (Photo: Gabe Souza/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

by Louise Melling
Proposal from Health and Human Services would allow discrimination based on faith—including people who are Jewish, Muslim, Catholic—as well as LGBTQ people.


The Massachusetts senator is adamant that her plan would not impose any taxes on the middle class. (Photo: Lori Shaull/Flickr/cc)

by Ilana Novick
Warren’s funding scheme is getting major criticism from the left.


Communities are taking things into their own hands, advocating for and winning automatic voter registration and same-day registration, upending proposed voter roll purges, and requesting absentee ballots.(Photo: Shutterstock)

by Robert P. Alvarez
When turnout climbs, Republicans lose. No wonder they're closing polling places and purging voters all over the country.


Adjusting for inflation inequality in this fashion, they estimate that 3.8 million more people would be counted as poor in 2018, and that the poverty rate would be 1.0 percentage point higher (12.8 percent rather than 11.8 percent) that same year.(Photo: Becker1999/flickr/cc)

by Shawn Fremstad
Today the United States is the only country in the world that measures present-day poverty by using a poverty line set over half a century ago.

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