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News & Views | 12/9/19

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett are the three richest people in the U.S., with more combined wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images, Michael Cohen/Getty Images/The New York Times, Fortune Live Media/Flickr/cc)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
New data released by an economist focused on inequality and the accumulation of wealth by top earners explains the numbers behind Sen. Bernie Sanders' often-cited statistic that the three richest Americans hold more wealth than the 160 million people who make up the bottom 50% of the population.

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"No one should be forced to use GoFundMe for health care," Bernie Sanders stated on Monday. "We are the richest country on Earth and we are going to take care of our people. Medicare for All now." (Photo: CD/flickr/cc)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Not upset with with the crowdfunding service for providing resources to those in desperate need, 2020 presidential candidate lashed out against a system that creates the need for such campaigns in the first place.


"The metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war"

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Officials repeatedly told the public "progress" was being made, but new documents show they knew that wasn't true.


A new report shows that Americans under the current healthcare system are delaying care.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is the 'choice based' system Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg want to preserve."


A banner is hung across a roadway while people participate in direct action with Extinction Rebellion on April 17, 2019 in New York City.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Swift action to confront the climate emergency has to start the moment the next president enters the Oval Office."


President Donald Trump listens to Attorney General William Barr during the 38th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the west front of the Capitol May 15, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The report addressed allegations of bias and impropriety on behalf of FBI agents investigating connections between the President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign and Russia.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Kentucky will uphold a law reproductive rights groups say is intended only to "shame and intimidate" patients who seek abortion care, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Monday not to hear an appeal to H.B. 2, or what the ACLU calls a "forced narrated ultrasound law."


South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, speaks in Iowa Sunday in front of protesters.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The move follows a weekend of sustained activist pressure demanding Buttigieg open the events.


Last month, a batch of emails obtained by Hatewatch exposed the racist source material that has influenced Stephen Miller's visions of policy. (Photo Illustration: Southern Poverty Law Center)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
A month after explosive emails exposed depth of Miller's hateful ideology, letter to president says his top policy advisor "must be removed."


A Nativity scene in Claremont, California has sparked discussion and controversy.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If this isn't your church's politics, you've got the wrong faith."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Based on this video, Nunes' depiction is an outrageous smear. Nunes is out of control. He's a public servant. He's functioning as Trump's servant."

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There is zero chance Trump will be removed from office in a trial in the Senate. (Photo: Mr. Fish)

by Chris Hedges
The mortal wounds inflicted on our democratic institutions are bipartisan.


Giovanna De La Rosa (center) at a United for Respect demonstration.

by Sarah Anderson
As the bankrupt toy chain attempts a comeback, retail workers who lost their jobs after private equity takeovers are fighting for accountability.


Symphony Lake, near Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo: mcav0y/flickr/cc)

by Dahr Jamail
Vast numbers of climate scientists are now grieving for the planet and humanity’s future, with some even describing their symptoms as a climate-change version of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.


This second case really is about destroying freedom of the press and entirely undermining what little is left of Israeli democracy. (Photo: Ben Amos Gershom/Prime Minister of Israel)

by Juan Cole
Netanyahu is brazenly planning to steal a quarter of all the land in the Palestinian West Bank, forever ending any chance of a Palestinian state.


All state-run media throughout the Arab world were stuffed with loyalists. (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

by Ramzy Baroud
Thousands of foreign journalists, with no cultural or political connection to the Middle East, were shipped in, to replace their Arab colleagues, and to participate, willingly or otherwise, in the dirty propaganda campaigns championed by one rich Arab countries or another.


Pamela Karlan speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2019.

by Michael Winship
They must pull us from the pyre of political madness.

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