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July 17, 2018

Politics & Elections

Even Fox Commentators Agree: Putin’s Helsinki Hustle Humiliated Trump

Following yesterday's debacle, Republicans in Congress have a decision to make.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

July 17, 2018

Politics & Elections

Oregon Senator Demands Ethics Probe of Trump’s Commerce Secretary

Another Trump administration official is in hot water over conflicts of interest.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

July 17, 2018

White Supremacy in the Courtroom: Booted From a Hearing on Guantánamo

As the only visible Muslim in the room, I was thrown out for having the wrong "attitude."

by Maha Hilal, Truthout

July 17, 2018

Environment & Health

Global Temperature Projections Could Double as the World Burns

With a scorching start to July and wildfires raging, a new study warns about long-range high temperature projections.

by Dahr Jamail, Truthout

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland. — Even Fox Commentators Agree: Putin’s Helsinki Hustle Humiliated Trump

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross speaks at the SelectUSA 2018 Investment Summit June 22, 2018, in National Harbor, Maryland. — Oregon Senator Demands Ethics Probe of Trump’s Commerce Secretary

Gavel and barbed wire — White Supremacy in the Courtroom: Booted From a Hearing on Guantánamo

Global Temperature Projections Could Double as the World Burns

Featured

Night traffic in San Francisco, California, January 13, 2017.

Wealth Can’t Protect Environmentally Ravaged Silicon Valley From Climate Change

by: Eve Ottenberg

Reading Against Fascism

by: Henry A. Giroux

Fast-food workers and activists demonstrate outside McDonald's downtown flagship restaurant on May 15, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois.

Corporations and Mainstream Media Trumpet the “Horrors” of Higher Wages

by: Dean Baker

Solar panels surrounded by buildings

The Limits of Green Energy Under Capitalism

by: David Klein

Politics & Elections

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland.

Even Fox Commentators Agree: Putin’s Helsinki Hustle Humiliated Trump

by: William Rivers Pitt

Earth in fiery oil paints

Percentage of Americans Who Believe Climate Change Is Real Reaches New High

by: Jerri-Lynn Scofield

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross speaks at the SelectUSA 2018 Investment Summit June 22, 2018, in National Harbor, Maryland.

Oregon Senator Demands Ethics Probe of Trump’s Commerce Secretary

by: Mike Ludwig

Is Trump-Putin Summit a Danger or Crucial Diplomacy Between Nuclear Powers?

by: Amy Goodman

Human Rights

Photos of Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya, top, and her daughter, Liah, bottom.

Mother’s Efforts to Reunite With Her Child Reveal Red Tape of Family Separation

by: Kavitha Surana

Gavel and barbed wire

White Supremacy in the Courtroom: Booted From a Hearing on Guantánamo

by: Maha Hilal

Activists participate in a demonstration for women's rights on January 21, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.

What Came Before #MeToo: The Himpathy That Shaped Misogyny

by: Lilian Calles Barger

Lessons From a Nazi-Persecuted Philosopher on the Rights of Refugees

by: Kathleen B. Jones

Exclusives

Black Americans’ Median Wealth Could Disappear in One Generation

Black Americans’ Median Wealth Could Disappear in One Generation

Intergenerational wealth, which slavery enabled white families to accumulate, contributes to the racial wealth gap.

by: Adam Hudson

Trump Card: Brett Kavanaugh and the “Unitary Executive” Theory

Trump Card: Brett Kavanaugh and the “Unitary Executive” Theory

With this nomination, there is only one ideology that matters.

by: William Rivers Pitt

Newly Unearthed FBI File Exposes Targeting of Folk Singer Dave Van Ronk

Newly Unearthed FBI File Exposes Targeting of Folk Singer Dave Van Ronk

Files on the late musician offer a disturbing window into the US's long tradition of political suppression.

by: Aaron J. Leonard

Environment & Health

Bird feather in oil with reflection of birds flying

The Environmental Law at the Center of a Lawsuit Against Trump Administration

by: Elizabeth Shogren

Secret Documents Expose Monsanto’s War on Cancer Scientists

by: Stacy Malkan

Global Temperature Projections Could Double as the World Burns

by: Dahr Jamail

What Air Pollution and Police Violence Have in Common

by: Kristina Marusic

Economy & Labor

Northwestern students and 8,000 other Chicago area protesters joined the international #FightFor15, rallying for a higher minimum wage, March 27, 2014.

DC Council Wants to Repeal Voter-Backed Minimum Wage Initiative

by: s.e. smith

We Are Nurses and We Won’t Back Down

by: Tristin Adie

Fast-food workers protest for higher wages at a McDonald's restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 15, 2014.

National Insecurity in the United States of Inequality

by: Rajan Menon

Inside the Koch Family’s 60-Year Anti-Union Campaign That Gave Us “Janus”

by: Lisa Graves

Art & Cartoons

Pros and Cons of the New Supreme Court

Pros and Cons of the New Supreme Court

by: Jen Sorensen

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Residents participate in an end-of-school-year peace march and rally on June 15, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

Education & Youth

High School Massacres Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg Among Youth Gun Deaths

An excerpt of Gary Younge's book "Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives."

by: Gary Younge

Book

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

School massacres get covered in the mainstream corporate press, but the unrelenting daily deaths of our young people often don't. This book rectifies that.

War & Peace

US Soldiers, along with East Africa Response Force soldiers, depart an aircraft in Juba, Sudan, December 18, 2013.

Commandos Sans Frontières: The Global Growth of US Special Operations Forces

by: Nick Turse

As NATO Summit Ends, We Must Resist Further Militarization

by: Amy Goodman; Nermeen Shaikh

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg look on as Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel speaks during a working dinner meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on May 25, 2017.

Intentional Chaos: Trump and the Global NATO Alliance

by: Joseph Gerson

National Security Adviser John Bolton arrives for a signing ceremony between North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump during their US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore, on June 12, 2018.

Media, Hardliners Play Up North Korean Nuclear “Deception” Claim

by: Gareth Porter

Prison & Policing

Protesters Hear Echoes of the Past in Germany’s New Police Laws

by: Kate Laycock

Tents are planted on either side of the old trolley rail at OccupyICEPDX, just in front of the ICE Portland headquarters in southwest Macadam on June 19, 2018, in Portland, Oregon.

Abolishing ICE Is a First Step Toward Abolishing Borders

by: Sarah Jaffe

People call 'you are not alone' to immigrant detainees inside the Metropolitan Detention Center during a protest of the Trump administration policy of removing children from parents arrested for illegally crossing the US-Mexico border on June 14, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.

How Data Is Used to Ensnare People

by: Janine Jackson

Dozens of immigrant children were detained in a vacant Phoenix office building at the height of President Trump’s family separation policy. Neighbors videotaped workers leading children into the building, which is not licensed as a child care center.

Defense Contractor Detained Migrant Kids in Vacant Phoenix Office Building

by: Aura Bogado; Ziva Branstetter; Vanessa Swales

Series

After the Raid: The Communal Trauma of Immigration Enforcement

After the Raid: The Communal Trauma of Immigration Enforcement

Visions of 2018

Visions of 2018

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Planet or Profit

Planet or Profit

Progressive Picks

Progressive Picks

The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Education & Youth

Bill Gates standing at the Elysee Palace on April 16, 2018, in Paris, France.

“They’ve Been Doing This Massive, Anti-Democratic Model of Education Reform”

by: Janine Jackson

Residents participate in an end-of-school-year peace march and rally on June 15, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

High School Massacres Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg Among Youth Gun Deaths

by: Gary Younge

Affirmative Action in Jeopardy With New DOJ Order and Retirement of Justice Kennedy

by: Amy Goodman

Children take part in a protest against US immigration policies outside the US embassy in Mexico City on June 21, 2018.

Immigrant Toddlers Ordered to Appear in Court Alone

by: Christina Jewett; Shefali Luthra

Media Justice

Katrina vanden Heuvel: We Need “Robust Debate” in Reporting on Russia, Not “Suffocating Consensus”

We Need Robust Debate in Reporting on Russia, Not Suffocating Consensus

by: Amy Goodman; Juan González

Meet the Reporter Dragged from Trump-Putin Press Conference for Trying to Ask About Nuclear Treaty

Reporter Dragged From Helsinki Meeting After Trying to Ask About Nuclear Treaty

by: Amy Goodman; Juan González

The headquarters of the Sinclair Broadcast Group is shown April 3, 2018, in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

Ajit Pai Drafts Order That Could Be “Deal Killer” for Sinclair Merger

by: Jessica Corbett

The Harriet Tubman Memorial Statue in Harlem, New York, is an example of public art commissioned by the Percent for Art program.

Keeping the “Public” in Public Art

by: Laura Flanders

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Human Rights Trumped

Commentary

Human Rights Trumped

by: Mel Gurtov, BuzzFlash

Human Rights Trumped

by: Mel Gurtov, BuzzFlash

Chicago May Become the Largest City in the US to Try Universal Basic Income

by: Zaid Jilani , The Intercept

IRS Ruling on Political Donation Reporting Sets Off Campaign Finance Fight

by: Niels Lesniewski, Roll Call