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News & Views | 7/25/19
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Need a 'Blueprint to Remove Trump'? Look at What Puerto Ricans Did in Just 16 Days
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
While many progressives were dismayed to learn on Thursday that
Democratic leaders remain reticent to call for impeachment proceedings
against President Donald Trump, some looked with admiration at the
hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans who successfully forced their
governor from office with...
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'This Is Not Normal': Record-Smashing European Heat Wave Sparks Demands to Combat Climate Emergency
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Following days of warnings from meteorologists, temperatures soared to
historic highs throughout Western Europe Thursday, eliciting impassioned
demands for governments to take more ambitious action to combat the
climate crisis.
'No One Should Retire Into Poverty': At Historic Hearing, Progressives Make Case for Expanding—Not Cutting—Social Security Benefits
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Social Security's modest benefits should be expanded. When President
Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, he called it 'a
cornerstone' on which to build. Yet the last time Congress enacted
increases was 1972."
As Deadly Heat Waves Sweep Globe, Research Shows Planet Warming at Rate Not Seen in 2,000 Years
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Even when we push our perspective to the earliest days of the Roman
Empire, we cannot discern any event that is remotely equivalent—either
in degree or extent—to the warming over the last few decades."
'Progressive Except Palestine'? Khanna and Pressley Draw Fire Over Vote Condemning Nonviolent BDS Movement
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If Pressley doesn't get Palestine on this most basic and limited point
she's made her position clear. This is an Israel lobby resolution
targeting a nonviolent resistance movement."
'It Is Time to Rebel': Listen to The 1975's New Track Featuring Speech by Climate Leader Greta Thunberg
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
British pop rock band The 1975 released the first track of their
forthcoming fourth album Wednesday, which features Swedish teen climate
activist Greta Thunberg delivering an instrumental-backed speech about
the global climate emergency.
Americans Must Do More Than Simply Reject Trump's Racism, Ilhan Omar Argues in 'Absolute Must Read' NYT Op-Ed
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Not enough to condemn the corruption and self-dealing," says Democratic
Congresswoman. "We must support policies that unmistakably improve
working people's lives."
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No Fairy Tale: The Trump Administration’s Declaration of Inhuman Rights
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by Karen Greenberg
What the child detentions at the border really tell us.
Today's Congressional Hearing Is A Huge Milestone In The Fight To Expand Social Security
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by Nancy J. Altman
Social Security is unquestionably the most important source of
retirement annuities, life insurance, and disability insurance for the
nation's working families, even for those fortunate to have other assets
Hey, Democrats: Robert Mueller Still Isn't Going to Do Your Job For You
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by Ryan Cooper
Instead of using the Mueller report to build a general case against
Trump, and satisfy their base's demand to at least try to provide a
check on his accelerating abuses, they hauled Mueller before the House
to summarize his own report back to them like it's kindergarten story
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Mueller at the Congressional Ramparts
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by Michael Winship
Trying to protect us from the rude tyranny at 1600 Pennsylvania.
12 Years to Save the Planet? Make That 18 Months
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by Matt McGrath
"The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can't be healed
within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until
2020."
A Climate-resilient Los Angeles Must First Address Its Polluted Past
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by Tara Lohan
To meet ambitious climate goals, L.A. needs more local water. A critical
step is battling the ghosts of industry past—polluted groundwater that
dates back to World War II.
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Newswire...
Amnesty International Response to US Government Decision to Resume Federal Executions
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Coverage of Climate Denial by Conservative Think Tanks Has Increased
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Shipwreck off the Coast of Libya Has Claimed the Lives of 150 People
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Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló Resigns
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