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Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Our people are waiting, Rep. Cuellar. Debate me."
Thomas Neuburger
It will be interesting to see how progressive candidates and policies fare at this convention, given the makeup of these committees. (Photo: Edward Kimmel/Flickr/cc)
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Julia Conley, staff writer
A day after Democratic lawmakers demanded that former National Security Adviser John Bolton testify in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, grassroots political action groups urged the American public to call their representatives and add their voices to the call for a fair trial.
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Two environmental groups released an analysis Monday that calls a national climate plan unveiled earlier this month by the Democratic chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee "extremely disappointing" and "a failure of climate leadership."
Sam Pizzigati
Last May, the United Steelworkers union noted that the newly merged DowDupont was paying its CEO 249 times more than the company’s median worker. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The new effort will focus on utilities' monopolies and reliance on fossil fuels.
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Roberts' job is to preside over a fair trial, where relevant witnesses are heard from and jurors actually listen to the evidence. Right now, he's helping Republicans break the rules and cover for Trump. That has to end."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign took aim at former Vice President Joe Biden Monday after Sanders's opponent in the 2020 Democratic primary claimed Sanders hasn't been "consistent" in his efforts to protect and raise Social Security benefits.
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Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The journal rolled out a "stellar set of ambitions," said climate group Divest Parliament.
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Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This town, man."
Pete Salmansohn
Wet markets are an established and ingrained part of Chinese community and culture, and thus it is no surprise that diseases are now jumping from animals to humans and humans to humans. (Photo by Edward Wong/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In an op-ed published Sunday night by the Washington Post, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden connected Brazilian federal prosecutors' recent decision to file charges against American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald to the U.S. government's efforts to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's bad enough that President Trump's and congressional Republicans' GOP tax scam betrayed workers—it's even worse that they're lining their own pockets off it."
Juan Cole
Netanyahu has pledged that there will be no Palestinian state as long as he is prime minister. (Photo: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv/flickr/cc)
Tom Engelhardt
Climate change, after all, looks to be nature’s slo-mo version of nuclear war. (Photo: David Gray/Getty Images)
Norman Solomon
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), cheer during his event at Nashua Community College on December 13, 2019 in Nashua, New Hampshire. The Iowa Caucuses are less than two months away. (Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
Michael Winship
In this screenshot taken from a Senate Television webcast, House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) speaks during impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol on January 23, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Senate Television via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We got Wall Street nervous. We got the insurance companies nervous. We got the drug companies nervous. We got the fossil fuel industry nervous. We got the military-industrial complex nervous."
