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Your Week in Review



by Julia Conley, staff writer
After the COP 25 climate talks on the Paris climate agreement went into overtime Friday night amid a stalled agreement on wealthy countries' contributions to greatly reducing their climate-warming carbon emissions, civil society groups and climate scientists were shocked by the weak language that emerged from the late-night talks on Saturday.




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 Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In an open letter to The Lancet Planetary Health journal Wednesday, a group of scientists called for reaching "peak livestock" production and pursuing dramatic efforts to restore vegetation in the next decade to curb planet-heating emissions, increase natural carbon sequestration, and avert climate catastrophe.


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by Julia Conley, staff writer
After initially viewing South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg as an intriguing, bold outsider when he began his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign early this year, some donors on Wednesday alerted others on social media to the fact that contributors can get refunds from the campaign if they no longer support Buttigieg.




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.



Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) was behind efforts by House progressives to change a drug pricing bill.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Our movement is STRONG."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This bill does nothing to rein in out-of-control military spending, prevent unconstitutional war against Iran, limit the poisoning of Americans' drinking water, or end the obscenity of innocent children in Yemen being killed by U.S. bombs."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"These two have most of the grassroots energy, most of the enthusiasm, and most of the ideas that are critical for winning in 2020."



"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.



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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