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News & Views | 11/8/19

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Richard Nixon announces his resignation from the White House, 9th August 1974. (Photo: Dirck Halstead/Liaison/via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship and Bill Moyers
Why we took out that ad in The New York Times.

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A supporter of the former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva holds a flag during a national strike protest called by unions and students against the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pension reform in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 14, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"An extraordinary day in Brazil—for the world, given Lula's stature."


David Bernhardt

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Watchdog and conservation groups called out former oil lobbyist and current Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Friday over the department's attempt to give a "coveted" government contract to one of Bernhardt's ex-clients.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Pull out the stops once again, and for the sake of the nation, throw away the schedule," writes luminary of public broadcast journalism in full-page ad. "Who wins? Democracy—and viewers like you."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's hard to imagine something more suspicious and damaging than the White House's own chief of staff afraid to tell the truth under oath."


Protestors carry signs as they demonstrate against proposed cuts to Medicaid and Medicare

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
New research "shows that gaining Medicaid coverage is literally a matter of life and death, particularly for people with serious health needs," and bolsters arguments in favor of states expanding their Medicaid programs, according to a report published this week by a leading progressive policy institute.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the first oral arguments regarding President Donald Trump's decision to rescind working permits for undocumented young people, thousands of high school and college students staged walkouts Friday to declare that DACA recipients are "here to stay."

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Lindsey Graham says Trump's Ukraine policy was incoherent. It wasn't. He knew what he wanted. But the strategy to defend the president in this impeachment proceeding is certainly incoherent at this point. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Heather Digby Parton
Exhausted Republicans have given up on the claim that Trump did nothing wrong. All they've got left is "he's dumb."


The only way to preserve the current social and economic order is by force. And when people have had enough, they meet force with resistance and resilience. (Photo: by Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
Free-market capitalism has proved time and again to be a failure. The promised riches are distributed far too unequally, and for most they never transpire.


General view as people gather in a massive protest at Plaza Baquedano during the eighth day of protests against President Sebastian Piñera's government on October 25, 2019 in Santiago, Chile. President Sebastian Piñera announced measures to improve social inequality, however unions called for a nationwide strike and massive demonstrations continue as death toll reached 18. Demands behind the protests include issues as health care, pension system, privatization of water, public transport, education, social m

by Ralph Nader
While there are some street protests in the U.S., they are sadly too few and far between.


By “balancing” Edsall’s column with three other columns that make no mention of economics, class, wealth, poverty or inequality, the Times seems to be happily going along with the centrist smoke and mirrors. (Photo: Flickr/cc/ ALec Perkins/NYT)

by Julie Hollar
Edsall wants Democratic candidates to appeal to white working-class voters, not by offering them real economic succor, but by throwing the rest of the party under the bus.


The biggest item on the benefit side is that it guarantees a benefit of at least 125 percent of the poverty level for anyone who has worked for at least 30 years. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Dean Baker
The average benefit this year is just over $17,600, certainly not enough to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.


Donald Trump with former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by John Feffer
When it comes to Ukraine, Trump has been manipulated as deftly as a mindless marionette. It’s going to cost him.

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