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Trump’s Decision to Block COVID Aid to Hard-Hit States Will Cost 4 Million Jobs
Budget shortfalls facing governments would shrink the economy by 3 percent, according to a recent economic analysis.
Sanders and Obama: Trump’s Attack on Postal Service a Direct Assault on Election
Tens of millions of Americans could be effectively disenfranchised in the November election due to Trump.
Confederate Monument Protests Gain Momentum in Small Alabama Town
Black activist group Project Say Something has tried to have the monument to racism removed since 2017.
Community-Based Farms Rise to the Occasion as Big Food Supply Chains Stall
Community farms have been able to reorient marketing and production to serve the urgent needs of their communities.
Trump Didn’t Invent State Violence Against Protesters — But He’s Escalating It
From Homeland Security to COINTELPRO and beyond, the U.S. has a very long history of meeting dissent with brutality.
Trump Gets Mail-In Ballot After Opposing Vote by Mail and Post Office Funding
Trump has pushed mail-in voting in “swing states” that may help him win reelection but called it “corrupt” elsewhere.
Trump’s New Racist Campaign Strategy Is Tweeting Mugshots of Black People
The effort to instill fear in voters about a future Biden presidency began the same day Kamala Harris joined his ticket.
McConnell Adjourns Senate for Month-Long Recess Without Deal on COVID Relief
Sen. Bernie Sanders called the long vacation while millions in the U.S. face hunger and eviction “morally obscene.”
Expert: Israel and UAE Deal Is Being Falsely Characterized as a Peace Deal
Rashid Khalidi says the agreement “makes the chance of a just, equitable and sustainable peace much, much, much harder.”
Public Health Officials Are Quitting or Getting Fired in Throes of Pandemic
At least 49 state and local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April across 23 states.