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News & Views | 7/25/19

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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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Europe heat

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.



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."



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."


Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) both voted in favor of a resolution that condemned BDS on Tuesday, angering progressives.

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."


Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg and The 1975's Matty Healy

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.


Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) rallies with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the U.S. Capitol March 08, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

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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In whose world are filth, disease, and persistent emotional cruelty acceptable? (Photo: Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Karen Greenberg
What the child detentions at the border really tell us.


Reprensetative John B. Larson (D-Conn.), accompanied by members of the House Ways & Means Committee and Social Security advocates, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill to announce the introduction of the Social Security 2100 Act. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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


God only knows what Trump might try under those conditions, but one thing is for sure: Nancy Pelosi is not going to do anything to stop him. (Photo: Illustrated | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images, Strawberry Blossom/iStock)

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 hour


Robert Mueller is sworn in before testifying to the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building July 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
Trying to protect us from the rude tyranny at 1600 Pennsylvania.


The sense that the end of next year is the last chance saloon for climate change is becoming clearer all the time. (Photo: Clint Spencer)

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."


Construction at the North Hollywood West Treatment facility, which will be the first of four new LADWP plants to treat contaminated groundwater in the San Fernando Valley. (Photo: Tara Lohan)

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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