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Why Is Marcia Fudge Being Nominated to HUD, if Not Tokenism?

Vanessa A. Bee

The guarantee of safe and affordable housing is too important for HUD to continue being treated as the short straw.

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Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Democratic Party

Claire Kelloway

Our planet and rural communities cannot afford four more years of Vilsack’s aggressive corporatism.

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Hollywood Deployed Lobbyists to Win Exemptions to Strict California Lockdown

Lee Fang

The entertainment industry has been given extensive leeway during the pandemic, even as California now faces a stay-at-home order.

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ICE Mismanagement Created Coronavirus “Hotbeds of Infection” In and Around Detention Centers

John Washington

A Detention Watch Network report blames ICE for nearly a quarter-million coronavirus cases throughout the country.

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Lobbyists Mobilize for Priority Access to Coronavirus Vaccine

Lee Fang

Journalists, pesticide manufacturers, and factory farms jostle to be counted as “essential” to receive a vaccine early.

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Trump’s Ban on Foreign Workers Has Left Schools With Teacher Shortages

Hannah Critchfield, Liz Donovan

Even as the ban will expire on December 31, some school districts that rely on foreign teachers will still have vacancies next semester.

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Indigenous Groups Push Insurers to Abandon Fossil Fuel Projects

Greta Moran

Indigenous land defenders are increasingly pressuring the financiers of fossil fuel infrastructure to respect their sovereign land right.

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France’s Macron Is Ramping Up a Clash of Civilizations — but Will It Stop Terrorism?

Murtaza Hussain

With France on edge owing to a slew of terror attacks, Macron has arguably fanned, rather than quelled, the flames of unrest.

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Inside Biden’s Meeting With Civil Rights Leaders

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