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Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 22

Paul Manafort found guilty, Michael Cohen pleads guilty, EPA admits Trump would sacrifice lives for coal, and more.

Failure to protect: policing mental illness in North America

The current moment requires that we recognize the crises of mental health and very likely homelessness that will come about as a result of the global pandemic and that we call upon authorities to prepare to deal with them in a more humane way than they have in the past.

How many people in the US are hospitalized with COVID-19? Who knows?

“The most pernicious portion of it is that at the state level and at the regional level we lost our situational awareness.”

97,000 US kids test positive for COVID-19 on the brink of schools reopening

While children make up a small fraction of the number of positive coronavirus cases in the U.S., their portion is growing.

Critical antibiotics still used on US farm animals despite superbug crisis

The FDA is planning to release data on pharmaceutical sales for animal antibiotics for 2017 this December, which will give more indication as to how well the new regulations are working.
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Ex-health insurance exec: Industry is using decades-old scare tactics to fight Medicare for All

"There are Americans all over this country who do not get the care that they need."

How cities can combat the dangerous combination of extreme heat and COVID

The compounding threats of heat and isolation have been laid bare this summer thanks to COVID-19.

Trump’s big loss

Settling our differences through ballots and agreed-upon processes rather than through force is what separates democracy from authoritarianism. Trump wants the latter.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 20, 2018

Progressives go big on Medicare for All, California Supreme court squashes splitting the state into two, Zinke takes a wrecking ball to the Endangered Species Act, and more.

Why is the US so exceptionally vulnerable to COVID-19?

This is why the U.S. has so quickly become the center of the COVID-19 pandemic.