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News & Views | 12/13/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The jury—Senate Republicans—are going to coordinate with the defendant—Donald Trump—on how exactly the kangaroo court is going to be run."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"No court in the country would allow a member of the jury to also serve as the accused's defense attorney."


fight for $15 protest

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The Republican-dominated National Labor Relations Board on Friday unveiled a new rule amending its procedures for union elections that, according to at least one progressive think tank, "betrays the workers it is meant to protect."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
After the progressive senators announced they would not be crossing the picket line, the rest of the Democratic field followed.


Fridays for Future striker Vanessa Nakate of Uganda holds a placard reading "climate can't wait" during a protest on climate emergency, called by environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future, outside the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP25 at the 'IFEMA - Feria de Madrid' exhibition centre, in Madrid, on December 13, 2019.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Just as we thought the slow pace and weak ambition shown at the climate talks couldn't get worse, along comes COP 25."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Don't let neoliberals use Jeremy Corbyn's defeat as an attack on Bernie Sanders," warned one progressive commentator.


A small group of activists rally against the Republican healthcare agenda outside of the Metropolitan Republican Club, July 5, 2017 in New York City

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Instead of addressing the "alarming increase in the number of uninsured children across the country," the state chose to put up "more barriers to coverage that will worsen this trend."


A young migrant girl sits on the floor as her father, recently released from federal detention with other Central American asylum seekers, gets a bus ticket at a bus depot on June 11, 2019, in McAllen, Texas.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"ICE is operating exactly as the Trump administration wants it to when migrants are being so violently neglected."


missile tests

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Arms experts warned of negative global implications after the Pentagon on Thursday test-launched a second missile that would have been banned under a Cold War-era treaty that U.S. President Donald Trump ditched in early August.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We will defend our public services—especially the NHS—from attempts to degrade or destroy them, and support, as well as we are able, the overworked heroes who keep them afloat."


House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) addresses the media after the committee passed two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump on Friday Dec. 13, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Unless he is removed from office, Trump's corruption will only become more brazen."

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U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001. (Photo: Sergeant Joseph R. Chenelly / United States Marine Corps)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
The important question today is: Will the Afghanistan Papers bring about the end of the longest war?


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks while introducing the Medicare for All Act of 2019 with Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on April 9, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Marcie Wells
Earlier this month, I witnessed a paid Culinary 226 Union organizer heckle Bernie Sanders and I haven't stopped wondering why


Such outlets, after all, don’t care as much about winning elections as they do about blocking the threat of a progressive political movement. (Photo: FAIR)

by Joshua Cho
The alleged "Buttigieg boom" may now be crumbling under the candidate’s stubborn opacity around his funders and great swaths of his career, as well as the entry into the field of fellow smug centrist Michael Bloomberg.


"What happens if a movement is able to help people see how they’re being played against each other?" he asked. "You could reset the entire political calculus." (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

by Greg Kaufmann
More damage to our nation’s most successful anti-hunger program is on the horizon.


In the first two decades after its release, methane traps over 85 times more heat in our atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2). (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

by Hasan Seede
The proposed rollback of existing methane standards would allow oil and gas wells to release both methane and VOCs with virtually no control.


The broadcaster's exit poll results projected on the outside of the BBC building in London shows Jeremy Corbyn's opposition Labour Party predicted to win 191 seats and lose the general election as the ballots begin to be counted in the general election on December 12, 2019. (Photo: Tolga Akmen / AFP / via Getty Images)

by Peter Bloom
There is no way to spin the results of this election as anything other than disastrous. So what should be done?

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