Truthout

April 9, 2019

A student holds a sign and screams a chant during a rally

Op-Ed Environment & Health

Standing in the Fire With Young Climate Activists

Older generations have a moral obligation to stand with youth amid the climate catastrophe.

by Barbara Cecil, Truthout

April 9, 2019

A man walks in a parking lot carrying a krispy kreme bag

Op-Ed Economy & Labor

What an Empire Built on Nazi Collaboration Says About Our Economy

Worker cooperatives offer an ethical alternative to an economy built on capital of questionable provenance.

by John Duda, Truthout

April 9, 2019

Pro-government supporters march during a rally on April 6, 2019, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Op-Ed War & Peace

US Takes Illegal, Dangerous Actions Toward Regime Change in Venezuela

The Trump regime is upping the ante.

by Marjorie Cohn, Truthout

April 9, 2019

Los Angeles Times

News Analysis Prisons & Policing

Supreme Court Says Discrimination Is OK — If You’re a Muslim

A Muslim on death row was denied a constitutional right granted to prisoners of other faiths.

by Huma Yasin, Truthout

A student holds a sign and screams a chant during a rally — Standing in the Fire With Young Climate Activists

A man walks in a parking lot carrying a krispy kreme bag — What an Empire Built on Nazi Collaboration Says About Our Economy

Pro-government supporters march during a rally on April 6, 2019, in Caracas, Venezuela. — US Takes Illegal, Dangerous Actions Toward Regime Change in Venezuela

Muslims come together in prayer at The Islamic Center of Los Angeles one day after the shooting in a mosque in New Zealand killed 49 people. — Supreme Court Says Discrimination Is OK — If You’re a Muslim

Featured

A doctor goes over forms with her elderly male patient

Medicare for 64-Year-Olds Is a Step Toward Medicare for All

by: Dean Baker,; Truthout

Protesters with Wendy prop in front of Wendy's owner Nelson Peltz's offices

Wendy’s Owner Gives Big to Trump While Refusing Farmworkers’ Demands

by: Derek Seidman,; Truthout

Scientists estimate that populations of ladybugs in the U.S. and Canada have declined by 14 percent between 1987 and 2006

The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming: Here Are Five Lessons We Must Learn

by: Robert Walker,; Truthout

What would a just transition actually mean for fossil fuel workers, and what must proponents do to win labor’s support?

Union Locals Build Support for the Green New Deal’s “Just Transition”

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump dance at the Freedom Ball on January 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s Inaugural Committee Is Under Criminal Investigation

by: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy,; Brennan Center for Justice

A coalition of activists are challenging the financial industry's ties to the gun industry and its support.

Is Your Bank Profiting From Gun Violence?

by: Negin Owliaei,; Inequality.org

President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Van Andel Arena

Conservatives Don’t Hate Socialism, They Hate Equality

by: Nicholas Powers,; Truthout

Peace Activists Face 25 Years for Action at US Nuclear Submarine Base

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Exclusives

Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism

Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism

Weaponized memes are engineered to excite and incite while poisoning democracies with disinformation.

by: Michael I. Niman,; Truthout

Settler Colonialism Lurked Beneath the Christchurch Massacre

Settler Colonialism Lurked Beneath the Christchurch Massacre

Fascism is little more than colonialism turned inwards.

by: Azeezah Kanji &; David Palumbo-Liu,; Truthout

The Militarization of Johns Hopkins Exposes a Nationwide Trend

The Militarization of Johns Hopkins Exposes a Nationwide Trend

Students are currently occupying the university administration building over issues of policing.

by: Corey Payne &; Steph Saxton,; Truthout

Environment & Health

A student holds a sign and screams a chant during a rally

Standing in the Fire With Young Climate Activists

by: Barbara Cecil,; Truthout

To effectively mitigate climate change, we must stop burning carbon for fuel and greatly increase forest protection.

Logging Is the Leading Driver of Carbon Emissions From US Forests

by: Danna Smith,; Chad Hanson &; Matthew Koehler,; Earth Island Journal

Children wait to receive food distribution from a local supermarket at an evacuation center in Dondo, about 35km north from Beira, Mozambique, on March 27, 2019.

In the Wake of Cyclone Idai, the North Has a Climate Debt to Pay

by: William Minter,; Foreign Policy in Focus

A doctor talks to a patient in a hospital waiting room

Important Medicaid Initiatives Would End If Court Overturns ACA

by: Jessica Schubel,; Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Economy & Labor

A man walks in a parking lot carrying a krispy kreme bag

What an Empire Built on Nazi Collaboration Says About Our Economy

by: John Duda,; Truthout

A person speaks to a crowd holding blue signs reading (UAW)

Anti-Union University Administrations Fight Graduate Student Worker Organizing

by: Michael Sainato,; Shadowproof

A U.S. Postal Service mail hander sorts mail

Scapegoating Unions for the Postal Service’s Phony Crisis

by: Brian Wakamo,; Inequality.org

A special IRS team was formed to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the rich. Here's why it failed.

The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.

by: Jesse Eisinger &; Paul Kiel,; ProPublica

Immigration

A young boy wearing a face mask stares at the camera while he waits for medical care

On the Border, Volunteer Doctors Struggle to Provide Stopgap Care to Immigrants

by: Anna Maria Barry-Jester,; Kaiser Health News

Donald Trump speaks into a microphone during a rally

At Michigan Rally, Trump Mocks Asylum Seekers Fleeing Violence

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

a bulldozer and workers are seen through rusted slats of the existing border fence

How Trump Could Easily Get Private Land for His Border Wall

by: T. Christian Miller,; ProPublica

A young girl stands outside a chain link fence

Supreme Court Approves Indefinite Detention of Immigrants

by: Kevin Mathews,; Care2

Racial Justice

A message to Christchurch is displayed on a big screen during a National Remembrance Service at Waitangi Park on March 29, 2019, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Settler Colonialism Lurked Beneath the Christchurch Massacre

by: Azeezah Kanji &; David Palumbo-Liu,; Truthout

Z, the founder of Black Socialists of America, meets with Cooperation Jackson co-founder Kali Akuno and others at the 2018 Fearless Cities conference in New York City, shortly before Black Socialists of America and Cooperation Jackson formally agreed to a partnership.

Socialist Principles Have Always Been Part of Black American Tradition

by: Robert R. Raymond,; Truthout

BYP100 activists participate in a march to and action at the CPD headquarters on August 26, 2014.

Building Movements Through a Black, Queer, Feminist Lens

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

Fighting Racial Bias in an Age of Mass Murder

Fighting Racial Bias in an Age of Mass Murder

by: Amy Goodman &; Nermeen Shaikh,; Democracy Now!

LGBTQ Rights

U.S Representative Mary Gay Scanion (D-PA) speaks on introduction of the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBTQ non-discrimination bill at the U.S. Capitol on April 01, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

The Crisis of Violence Against Transgender People Is Not a “Myth”

by: Gillian Branstetter,; Rewire.News

Julia Beck testifies on the reauthorization the Violence Against Women Act

House Republicans Use “Lesbian Radical Feminist” to Advance Anti-Trans Rhetoric

by: Heron Greenesmith,; Rewire.News

Empire actor Jussie Smollett leaves Cook County jail after posting bond on February 21, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. Too much focus on Jussie Smollet distracts from the fact that violence against LGBTQ people of color is rising.

Racist Anti-LGBTQ Violence Is Real. Smollett Doesn’t Change That.

by: Barbara Ransby,; Truthout

Trump Administration Wants to Deny Health Care to LGBTQ People

by: s.e. smith,; Rewire.News

Prisons & Policing

"We have invested in the carceral state, not in the community programs that these folks need," says Gabriel Sayegh, co-director of the Katal Center for Health, Equity and Justice. Sayegh is one of the advocates in the Less Is More campaign.

“I Had Nothing”: How Parole Perpetuates a Cycle of Incarceration and Instability

by: Raven Rakia,; The Appeal

Muslims come together in prayer at The Islamic Center of Los Angeles one day after the shooting in a mosque in New Zealand killed 49 people.

Supreme Court Says Discrimination Is OK — If You’re a Muslim

by: Huma Yasin,; Truthout

An elderly prisoner sits in a hospital bed

Behind Bars, Co-Pays Are a Barrier to Basic Health Care

by: Victoria Law,; Truthout

The role of police is at the heart of the debate over decriminalization of sex work.

Florida Sex Workers Demand Decriminalization After Massive Raids

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

War & Peace

Mourners attend a funeral procession in Sanaa, Yemen, for victims of an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition. According to the UN, the strike killed 22 people, including children, in Yemen's northwestern Hajja province on Saturday.

Trump Puts Iran in His Crosshairs as Yemen Bleeds

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

As NATO Marks 70th Anniversary, Threat of Nuclear Confrontation Grows

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Two women sort through abandoned backpacks scattered in a stairwell

US-Backed Saudi Coalition Bombs Yemen School, Killing Mostly Children

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Pro-government supporters march during a rally on April 6, 2019, in Caracas, Venezuela.

US Takes Illegal, Dangerous Actions Toward Regime Change in Venezuela

by: Marjorie Cohn,; Truthout

Series

How Then Shall We Live?

How Then Shall We Live?

Finding our way and peace of heart amidst global collapse.

After the Raid

After the Raid

Exposing the communal trauma of immigration enforcement.

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Marjorie Cohn analyzes human rights and executive branch lawbreaking.

Planet or Profit

Planet or Profit

Investigating systemic threats to the ecosystem from transglobal corporate profit-seeking.

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The Public Intellectual

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Education & Youth

Members of Johns Hopkins Students Against Private Police and Hopkins Anti-ICE Coalition sit under a banner on April 4, 2019, in the university president's office building after sitting in overnight.

The Militarization of Johns Hopkins Exposes a Nationwide Trend

by: Corey Payne &; Steph Saxton,; Truthout

An illustration of a graduating man with people watching him from behind a fence

From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged

by: Eisa Nefertari Ulen,; Truthout

A man holds a sign reading "We [heart] our students!" during a demonstration

Teachers’ Movements Gain Community Support by Centering Social Justice

by: Ashley Smith,; Truthout

New York City High School students walk out of classes to protest climate change

From Science to Art, US Teachers Educate Students on Climate Change

by: Eleanor J. Bader,; Truthout

Culture & Media

A closeup of a white hand touching a lit smartphone screen

Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism

by: Michael I. Niman,; Truthout

Surveillance capitalism is doing to human nature what industrial capitalism has done to our planet.

Surveillance Capitalism Is Destroying Our Freedom and Our Intimacy

by: Eve Ottenberg,; Truthout

Palestinian medical staff treat an injured youth during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border

“Renouncing Violence” Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims

by: Adam Johnson,; FAIR

Woman Suing Harvard for Photos of Enslaved Ancestors Says History Is at Stake

by: Amy Goodman &; Juan González,; Democracy Now!