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News & Views | 12/11/19

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Rep. Ro Khanna

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The bottom line is that top military officials and civilian officials have known that the Afghan war has been has been unwinnable and have been misleading the American public for 20 years."

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offshore rig

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Business as usual, even efficient business as usual is wholly insufficient in a market that is, and must, fundamentally change."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
New polling out of California reveals that although former Vice President Joe Biden narrowly edged out Sen. Bernie Sanders by one point in terms of overall support, the progressive senator is garnering the most support from young voters in the state and elicits the most enthusiasm from Californians.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We deserve better than Joe Biden's silence in the face of crisis."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Every dollar spent by the Pentagon is a dollar not spent on education, healthcare, or climate. When critics attack social spending by asking 'how will you pay for it?' this will be our answer."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was ranked at the top of progressive group Indivisible's 2020 candidate scorecard on Wednesday, winning a score of 95%.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Buttigieg helped an insurance giant increase profits at the expense of workers. Now he's in trouble for it and he's frantically tossing out insurance industry talking points against Medicare for All."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Progressive Democrats in Congress directed outrage and disgust at several of their centrist colleagues, who held a meeting Monday where they discussed censuring President Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to bribe the Ukrainian government rather than impeaching him.


coastal communities

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In addition to warning that "the feedback to accelerating climate change may already be underway," the U.S. government's latest report on conditions in the Arctic reveals that temperatures in the region are persistently warming, leading to land and sea ice melting, permafrost thawing, species being threatened with extinction, and putting Native communities at risk.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"One of his ugliest and most troubling performances in recent memory," one observer said of Trump's rally in Pennsylvania.



by Jon Queally, staff writer
"These are sad and strange times we are going through," responded comic book author who created the villainous character.

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The Trump administration may restrict the size of loans college students can take out, which Rev. Jesse Jackson says is a backward way to reduce student loan debt. (Photo: File Photo)

by Jesse Jackson
The economy continues to generate jobs that won’t support a family. That’s why so-called poverty programs—from CHIP to food stamps to public housing to low income heating assistance to Medicaid—are so necessary.


Afghan children look on as a US soldier from the Provincial Reconstruction team (PRT) Steel Warriors patrols in the mountains of Nuristan Province on December 19, 2009. (Photo: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)

by Thomas S. Harrington
The only real question worth pondering at this point is why Americans sign on to nihilistic pursuits of this sort with such regular and obedient ease.


As Obama inserts himself in the 2020 election—with some news reports suggesting he may engage further to help prevent a Sanders nomination—he is fast becoming a symbol of the divide within the Democratic party, between those who caution against (or fear) real change and those who are long tired of waiting. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Gordon Clark
Would it be a "little more just" if only 25,000 people died every year from lack of insurance, as opposed to nearly 50,000? What if it was your brother, sister, or child who was dying?


South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden talk during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
The wealthiest and most powerful people in the country are putting their big thumbs on the scale.


Playing it "safe" is losing, and not just because centrism is (witness the centrist Obama years’ radical erosion of Democrats’ ability to participate in governance) far from being a safe bet in the first place. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Ira Allen
Anything less than an overwhelming popular mandate for progressive, fundamental restructuring of the institutions of society along democratic lines will be insufficient to even begin the process of detrumpification.


Republicans have doubled down on efforts to keep black people from voting in key races. (Photo: DonkeyHotey/Flickr)

by Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith
They learned to embrace popular organizing and to fear—and suppress—the black vote.

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