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December 12, 2018

Activists march in New York City on September 5, 2017. Ongoing efforts to sabotage Medicaid and deny coverage to immigrant families will increase the uninsured.

News Environment & Health

Under Trump, More People Live Without Health Coverage

Ongoing efforts to sabotage Medicaid and deny coverage to immigrant families will increase the uninsured.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

December 12, 2018

The exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the US and Palestinians.

Op-Ed Prisons & Policing

US and Israeli Police Are Sharing Violent and Repressive Tactics

The exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the US and Palestinians.

by Noah Habeeb, Craig Willse, Truthout

December 12, 2018

Disabled activists on Capitol Hill lobby congress to approve the Americans with Disabilities Act, May 17, 1990.

Op-Ed Human Rights

The ADA Is Not Bush Sr.’s Legacy. It Belongs to Disability Activists.

The Americans with Disabilities Act resulted from decades of grassroots organizing by disabled people and allies.

by Kara Mannor, Truthout

December 12, 2018

President Donald J. Trump

Op-Ed Politics & Elections

If There’s No “Smocking” Gun, Why Is Trump So Terrified?

If Mueller’s endgame isn’t here just yet, it’s close.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

Activists march in New York City on September 5, 2017. Ongoing efforts to sabotage Medicaid and deny coverage to immigrant families will increase the uninsured. — Under Trump, More People Live Without Health Coverage

Police exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the US and Palestinians. — US and Israeli Police Are Sharing Violent and Repressive Tactics

Disabled activists on Capitol Hill lobby Congress to approve the Americans with Disabilities Act, May 17, 1990. — The ADA Is Not Bush Sr.’s Legacy. It Belongs to Disability Activists.

PresidentTrump walks to board Marine One and depart from the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, December 7, 2018, in Washington, DC. — If There’s No “Smocking” Gun, Why Is Trump So Terrified?

Featured

A Yemeni mother holds her malnourished child as they wait for treatments in a medical center in the village of Al Mutaynah in the Tuhayta province in western Yemen on November 29, 2018.

Public Pressure Could Halt US Support of Yemen War

by: Marjorie Cohn,; Truthout

A demonstrator throws a tear gas canister back at police outside the Argentine Congress as deputies began discussion on the government's austere 2019 budget in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 24, 2018.

Richard Wolff: There Are No Blueprints for Revolution

by: Vaios Triantafyllou,; Truthout

Thousands of Arizona teachers march through downtown Phoenix on their way to the State Capitol as part of a rally for the #REDforED movement on April 26, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Progressive Activists Are Winning in Red States

by: Michael Arria,; Truthout

Educators from the Acero charter school network hold signs as they protest during a strike outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters on December 5, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

Can the Nation’s First Charter School Strike Transform the Industry?

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

More than 1,000 young protesters lined the halls of Congress and lobbied at congressional offices on Monday to demand that their elected representatives back the Green New Deal.

Over 140 Arrested as Youth-Led Demonstrators Demand Green New Deal

by: Julia Conley,; Common Dreams

State ballot measures to fix gerrymandering were popular this year with both Democratic and Republican voters.

Support for Redistricting Reform Crossed Party Lines in 2018

by: Peter Miller &; Brianna Cea,; Brennan Center for Justice

Colorado State Senator Randy Baumgardner was accused of inappropriately touching a former legislative aide.

#MeToo Is Slowly Disrupting the Power Structure

by: Jamillah Williams,; The Conversation

PresidentTrump walks to board Marine One and depart from the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, December 7, 2018, in Washington, DC.

If There’s No “Smocking” Gun, Why Is Trump So Terrified?

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

LGBTQ Rights

"Events like QueerBomb are hugely important because of the ways in which they try to take inspiration from the radical queer past and for the ways in which they try to shed light on the organizations that are trying to extend the legacies of that past."

The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

The annual Pride Parade makes its way past the The Stonewall Inn on June 24, 2018, in New York City.

Gay Emancipation Goes to Market

by: Roderick A. Ferguson,; Polity Press

"Butterflies and Dandelions."

Trans Communities of Color Survive, Thrive and Fight Back

by: Jordan Scruggs,; Truthout

Educational institutions must once again become sites of fascist resistance and defend their trans students.

Schools Must Be Crucial Sites in the Struggle for Trans Liberation

by: Aleo Pugh and Victor Ultra Omni,; Truthout

Exclusives

White Supremacy Apologists Are Having a Field Day

White Supremacy Apologists Are Having a Field Day

From the White House to The Times, white supremacists are running wild.

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

I Will Not Speak Kindly of the Dead. Bush Was Detestable.

I Will Not Speak Kindly of the Dead. Bush Was Detestable.

Here are eight of the many reasons why, beneath the civility, George H.W. Bush was a detestable president.

by: Michael I. Niman,; Truthout

Will Mexico’s Left-Wing President Help Trump’s Immigration Agenda?

Will Mexico’s Left-Wing President Help Trump’s Immigration Agenda?

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's promise to help migrants will be tested by Trump's belligerent demands.

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

Environment & Health

Activists march in New York City on September 5, 2017. Ongoing efforts to sabotage Medicaid and deny coverage to immigrant families will increase the uninsured.

Under Trump, More People Live Without Health Coverage

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Teen Climate Activist Confronts World Leaders at UN Summit

Teen Climate Activist Confronts World Leaders at UN Summit

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

World’s Biggest Emitters Must Act Now to Stop Devastating Climate Change

World’s Biggest Emitters Must Act Now to Stop Devastating Climate Change

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

To save life itself would require a genuine reevaluation of modern life and its institutions.

From Insects to Starfish, We’re Edging Toward Biological Annihilation

by: Subhankar Banerjee,; TomDispatch

Economy & Labor

Low-Income People Suffer When Government Tech Contracts Change

by: Debbie Weingarten,; TalkPoverty.org

Trade: It’s Still About Class, Not Country

by: Dean Baker,; Truthout

More than 130,000 workers are expected to benefit from the new fair workweek law.

Philadelphia Just Passed the Strongest Fair Scheduling Law in the Nation

by: Bryce Covert,; In These Times

The movement originated out of resentment over a hike in the price of diesel gas, but this is no American-style TEA party. It's more like the Occupy movement.

Swept Up in France’s Yellow Vest Protests

by: Chris Brooks,; Labor Notes

Art & Cartoons

Tips for Holiday Cheer

Tips for Holiday Cheer

by: Jen Sorensen,; Truthout

Cartoons

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"Events like QueerBomb are hugely important because of the ways in which they try to take inspiration from the radical queer past and for the ways in which they try to shed light on the organizations that are trying to extend the legacies of that past."

LGBTQ Rights

The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive

Author Roderick A. Ferguson discusses the commodification of queerness.

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

Book

One-Dimensional Queer

We have told ourselves that queer politics came to issues of race, colonization, incarceration and capitalism later in its development. This book tells a different story.

War & Peace

A Yemeni man goes through the wreckage of a building that was reportedly destroyed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the capital Sanaa on September 5, 2018.

Yemenis Seek Asylum on Island That Resists US Militarization

by: Kathy Kelly,; Voices for Creative Nonviolence

A Massive US Propaganda Machine Bolstered George H.W. Bush’s War on Iraq

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

US Owes Reparations to Panama Over Bush’s Invasion

US Owes Reparations to Panama Over Bush’s Invasion

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

Yemenis dig graves for children, who where killed when their bus was hit during a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Saada, on August 10, 2018.

The Long, Brutal US War on Children in the Middle East

by: Kathy Kelly,; Voices for Creative Nonviolence

Prison & Policing

Police exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the US and Palestinians.

US and Israeli Police Are Sharing Violent and Repressive Tactics

by: Noah Habeeb &; Craig Willse,; Truthout

French soldiers stand guard in front of the entrance of a synagogue in Lille, northern France, on January 13, 2015. France announced on January 12 the unprecedented deployment of 10,000 soldiers to boost security, including at Jewish schools, a day after almost four million people marched in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

On Hanukkah, Let’s Challenge Militarized Security Responses to Anti-Semitism

by: Brant Rosen,; Truthout

Tear Gas at the Border: Trump and the Endgame of Capitalism

Border Patrol Officer Who Shot Unarmed Teenager on Mexican Soil Is Acquitted

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

I’ve Been in Prison for 24 Years and I Feel Dead

by: Lacino Hamilton,; Truthout

Series

After the Raid

After the Raid

Exposing the communal trauma of immigration enforcement.

Visions of 2018

Visions of 2018

Activist leaders address what they would like to see created, built or begun this year.

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.

Progressive Picks

Progressive Picks

Books and DVDs that we find thought-provoking and insightful.

The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

When Schools Use Child Protective Services as a Weapon Against Parents

by: Rebecca Klein &; Caroline Preston,; The Hechinger Report

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos talks with with Bill Cordes of the department's Budget Service before testifying in front of a Senate subcommittee on the department's budget request for fiscal year 2019 on June 5, 2018.

Betsy DeVos Uses Our Taxes for Koch Brothers’ Agenda

by: Jeff Bryant,; Campaign for America's Future

Why Don’t Detroit Public Schools Have Safe Drinking Water?

by: Judy Molland,; Care2

Centennial Middle School 6th grader Diana Pacheco talking with her friend Emily Dazquez. Both girls have fresh salad from one of the two salad bars at the school during lunch in the Montrose County School district on September 1, 2016, in Montrose, Colorado.

Fight Child Hunger This Winter by Supporting a Backpack Program

by: s.e. smith,; Care2

Culture & Media

What Marc Lamont Hill’s Pro-Palestine Message Means to a Palestinian

by: Osama Alkhawaja,; Truthout

New Film Warns Against Spain’s Fascist History Repeating Itself

New Film Warns Against Spain’s Fascist History Repeating Itself

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

Marc Lamont Hill visits "Sway In The Morning" on Eminem's Shade 45 channel with Sway Calloway at SiriusXM Studio on August 1, 2016, in New York City.

CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill for Daring to Denounce Oppression of Palestinians

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

President Trump listens to a question from CNN's Jim Acosta at a press conference on September 26, 2018, in New York City.

Only Donald Trump Can Make a Martyr Out of CNN

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout