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News & Views | 11/20/19

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Everyone was in the loop," Sondland told the committee. "It was no secret."

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President Donald Trump holds his notes while speaking to the media before departing from the White House on November 20, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Impeachment in the House is an indictment, said the Michigan congressman. "If this were an ordinary prosecution, there's no grand jury in America that would not return an indictment on the facts and evidence presented in these hearings."


Chicago Tribune building

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Newspaper unions express fear that Alden Global Capital "is looking to bleed its next chain of newspapers dry."



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A United Nations report released Wednesday warns that worldwide projections for fossil fuel production over the next decade indicate that the international community is on track to fail to rein in planet-heating emissions and prevent climate catastrophe.


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) embrace after the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre July 30, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I clearly don't think it is premature to have detailed discussions on funding Medicare for All," says co-author of 200-page study on that exact subject. "How Sanders or Warren should handle the matter politically is another matter."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We invite international organizations, Pope Francis, to form a truth commission about the October 20 elections."


Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr, seen here in 2018, told Fox News Wednesday that Republican senators, after seeing Ambassador Gordon Sondland's testimony, may want "to make a trip down to the White House—that historical example set during the Nixon presidency."

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The real issue is the senators are watching."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Medicare for All advocate Ady Barkan on Wednesday announced his endorsement of Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic primary, applauding her plan to expand healthcare coverage to all Americans as quickly as possible by using legislative tools other Democratic leaders have shied away from.


XR march

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate advocates and experts celebrated Oxford Dictionaries' announcement Wednesday that "climate emergency" is the Oxford Word of the Year 2019.


Songwriter and singer Ariana Grande pictured with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders after a concert performance of hers which Sanders and his wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, attended in Atlanta on Tuesday night. Grande issued her support for the Senator on social media Wednesday. (Photo: via Jane O'Meara Sanders / @janeosanders)

by Jenna McGuire, staff writer
"Thank you Senator Sanders for coming to my show, making my whole night and for all that you stand for."


Flanked by other House Democrats, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol January 4, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Gordon Sondland's devastating testimony must end the Trump presidency."

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Governments are still not stepping up on climate action, yet there are no more excuses to not be delivering on real commitments that put an end to fossil fuel production. (Photo: 350.org/flickr/cc)

by Hoda Baraka
The disconnect between Paris temperature goals and countries’ plans and policies for coal, oil, and gas production is massive, worrying and unacceptable.


The United States ranks near the bottom for life span and infant mortality—all while paying more per capita than nearly every other nation. Or maybe you’re one of the 30 million Americans who don’t have any health insurance coverage at all. (Image: Inequality Media / MoveOn)

by Robert Reich
We shouldn't be paying private for-profit corporate insurers boatloads of money to get the coverage we could have for much less.


Together with common-sense cuts to runaway overhead costs, and by rolling current Pentagon health care costs into a universal health plan, we easily get more than the $300 billion needed for Medicare for All. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Lindsay Koshgarian
If we end wars, shut down wasteful and failing weapons programs, and close unnecessary foreign bases, we could come up with an extra $350 billion to spend on Medicare for All—without sacrificing security.



by Jeffrey C. Isaac
Only politics can save us!


To become more courageous, hang out with courage! (Photo: CC7 / Shutterstock.com)

by Frances Moore Lappé
If we believe something is essential—as in fixing our broken democracy and confronting the climate crisis—we’ve shown over and over throughout our long history that we can indeed do whatever it takes.



by Jeffrey D. Sachs
The American political debate over health care is absurd. Americans pay twice as much as any other nation for health care, and then are told daily that they "can't afford" to switch to a lower-cost system very similar to those of Canada and Europe.

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