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News & Views | 12/3/19
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'So If You're Poor, You're Dead'? Watch These Brits Gasp When They Find Out Cost of Healthcare in the United States
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The cost of American healthcare is literally unimaginable to most
British people."
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'He's Just...Erased': PBS 2020 Segment Finds Time for Klobuchar, Sestak, and Bullock—But Completely Ignores Bernie Sanders
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
It was like watching "manufacturing consent in action,' said Current
Affairs editor Nathan Robinson.
Declaring 'No One Is Above the Law,' House Intelligence Committee Releases Trump Impeachment Report
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) tweeted in response to the report that "the
House Judiciary Committee should accept the Intelligence Committee
report and immediately start drawing up articles of impeachment."
Report Details How Social Security Has Become Rigged for the Wealthy While Leaving Behind Those It Was Designed to Help
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The program's become less progressive," said Jim Roosevelt, a former
Social Security Administration official and grandson of FDR.
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'Standing With Bernie Because Bernie Stands With Us': Iowa's Largest Progressive Group Endorses Sanders
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
With only about two months left before Iowa's first-in-the-nation 2020
caucuses, the political arm of the state's largest grassroots
progressive group endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic
Party's presidential nomination on Monday.
After Hottest Decade Since Records Began, WMO Warns World May Face 5°C Rise by Century's End
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
As the decade comes to a close, the world's top climate scientists
warned Tuesday that policymakers' continued failure to curb the warming
of the planet could lead to a global temperature increase of 5° Celsius
by the end of the century, putting the world "nowhere near on track" to
avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
US Navy Places $22 Billion Cyber Monday Order for Nuclear Submarines, But Who Is Asking How We Gonna Pay For It?
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"$22 billion could fund a lot of kids learning," said Albert Lee, a
Democrat running for Congress in Oregon. "We need an education race; not
a wasted arms race."
Kamala Harris to End Her 2020 Presidential Campaign, Leaving Third Way Dems 'Stunned and Disappointed'
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Harris leaves the race after failing to gain traction with voters.
Critics Decry 'Publicity Stunt With Genuine Consequences' as Trump Deploys 'Surge' of Park Rangers to Patrol Southern Border
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Critics of the Trump administration's immigration policies raised alarm
Tuesday over a so-called "surge" of park rangers that the Interior
Department is deploying to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border as House
Democrats refuse to fund President Donald Trump's long-promised border
wall.
'They Want Us Afraid:' Fired Google Workers Fight Back Against Tech Giant With NLRB Complaint
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
With many of their former colleagues standing with them, four
recently-fired Google employees on Tuesday announced they would file
charges against the company with federal government's top labor agency,
claiming Google illegally fired them from organizing their workplace.
'People Are Underestimating the Force of Angry Kids': Greta Thunberg Returns to Europe for Climate Summit
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After three weeks of sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to attend the
United Nations Climate Change Conference in Spain, teen climate activist
Greta Thunberg arrived Tuesday in neighboring Portugal, where she was
welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.
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Meet the Big Polluters Sponsoring COP25
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by Erika González
Whether it's subsidies or the global response to this crisis, around the
world, the influence of industries like the fossil fuel industry
continues to hamper our policymaking to face the ecological and climate
crisis.
Middle America: The Danger for Democrats
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by Ruth Conniff
To insist that not coming on too strong is what's needed in 2020 is to
miss the whole lesson of the rightwing populist rise of Trump.
Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction
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by Danny Sjursen
Collective delusion—reflected in the populist, rightward, authoritarian
global political wave—might just spell the end of organized human life
on this planet.
The Hottest Years
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by Emily Beament
The past decade, from 2010 to 2019, has almost certainly been the
warmest in records dating back to the 19th century.
WTO Shutdown: The Kids Are Alright
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by Jeff Crosby
This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct
action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows.
Moral Injury and America’s Endless Conflicts
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by Arnold R. Isaacs
A legacy of a new kind of war.
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EPA Chief Promises Year of 'Progress' To Mark Agency's 50th Anniversary
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Trump & GOP Can’t Both Obstruct Impeachment Inquiry and Call it a “Witch Trial”
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CREW Calls On Duncan Hunter To Resign
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Brown University Committee Votes to Divest from Companies "Facilitating Human Rights Violations in Palestine"
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350 Action Endorses McKayla Wilkes (MD-05), Doyle Canning (OR-04), Marie Newman (IL-03) for Congress
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