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News & Views | 7/23/19

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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A new analysis warns that "global warming may have played a pivotal role" in the recent rise of a multidrug-resistant fungal superbug, sparking questions and concerns about the emerging public health threats of the human-caused climate crisis.

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D—Michigan) addresses the NAACP's (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 110th National Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan on July 22, 2019. (Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"We will make sure," said president and CEO Derrick Johnson, "that the NAACP is at the forefront of pushing Congress to proceed with the impeachment process."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It sets up a crisis of the first year of the next president's administration," said a former congressional staffer. "We're letting them light the fuse on another bomb and place it squarely in the middle of the next president's first year."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Privacy and civil liberties advocates applauded Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Yvette Clarke on Tuesday as they prepared to introduce legislation to protect public housing residents from the rise of facial recognition software.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Around 100,000 Tory Party members have inflicted on us a prime minister with a record of bigotry, racism, lying, and incompetence, Boris Johnson," declared Green Party MP Caroline Lucas. "This is not democracy."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The weeks-long detention of an 18-year-old U.S. citizen in South Texas prompted the latest calls on Tuesday for an immediate end to the Trump administration's aggressive, xenophobic anti-immigration agenda.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The U.S. president said he has not acted on the plan because he doesn't "want to kill 10 million people"

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In September 2014, a U.S. official from The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives estimated that half the weapons available on El Salvador’s black market were made in the United States. (Photo: Wes Bausmith / Los Angeles Times)

by Frances Moore Lappé
Where are the calls to stop the massive illegal transfer of U.S. weapons fueling the very violence that drives innocent people to leave their homes?


John Nichols (Photo by Joe Mabel/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)

by Ruth Conniff
'We need journalism to expose this dumbing down and bartering off of policy making'


U.S. government policies are causing deaths and hardship, and make no mistake, it only takes a brief examination of history to understand that a wall and criminalization are not deterrents for people with no options. (Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty)

by Alison Bodine, Tamara Hansen
For the last 18 years, since the new era of war and occupation began, there has been no end to the war, violence, and economic devastation imposed on people around the world by imperialist governments like the U.S., Canada, and the countries of the European Union


If you plan to vote for Trump because of his tax cuts, for example, or his uncritical support of Israel, you’re also voting for his racism. (Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

by Eugene Robinson
This is nothing less than a fight for the soul of the nation. Everyone needs to take a stand.


A Honduran immigrant entertains a fellow immigrant's child in front a map of Mexico showing train routes leading north at a shelter for undocumented Central American immigrants on September 14, 2014 in Tenosique, Mexico. The shelter, called La 72, is run by Fransiscan friars and is the first stop for thousands of Central American immigrants crossing north through Mexico to reach the United States. Many risk riding atop "La Bestia" or The Beast, a freight train which passes through Tenosique in Mexico's sou

by Tom Gallagher
How much longer will we watch the suffering and inhumanity before we agree that we need to do something big?


The real political enemy is the Republican party, and nothing is more important than a resounding Republican defeat in 2020. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
This does not mean that "centrist" strategies ought to be embraced, but it does mean that Democrats need to argue with a sense of proportion and in a way that underscores their unity against Trump

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