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August 20, 2018

Self-Managed Abortion Care Becomes Urgent as Threats to Roe v. Wade Mount

Reproductive justice advocates are looking at countries where abortion is not legal for safe workarounds.

by Katie Klabusich, Truthout

August 20, 2018

Education & Youth

Law Students Fighting Trump Agenda Won’t Find Support at Their Schools

Our legal education system fosters and rewards apathy and produces lawyers who put efficiency over morality.

by Osama Alkhawaja, Truthout

August 20, 2018

“Danger” Wasn’t a Word We Knew: Elaine Mokhtefi and the Panthers in Algiers

Algiers, Third World Capital, is a rare glimpse into the work of the international arm of the Black Panther Party.

by Susie Day, Truthout

August 20, 2018

Prisons & Policing

Incarcerated People in 17 US States Plan Prison Strike

The Nationwide Prison Strike is planned for August 21, the day Nat Turner led an uprising of slaves in 1831.

by Julia Conley, Common Dreams

Self-Managed Abortion Care Becomes Urgent as Threats to Roe v. Wade Mount

Lawyer leaving legal library — Law Students Fighting Trump Agenda Won’t Find Support at Their Schools

"Demonstration for Palestine" by Elaine Mokhtefi; oil on canvas, 2012. — “Danger” Wasn’t a Word We Knew: Elaine Mokhtefi and the Panthers in Algiers

Supporters of Florida's prison strike rally in January. — Incarcerated People in 17 US States Plan Prison Strike

Featured

We Will Resist Trump’s Authoritarian War on the Media

by: Mike Ludwig

On August 4, about 800 people gathered at a beach near Lisbon, Portugal, to form a giant message saying, "Stop the oil drilling" and "Water is life."

“Aerial Art Action” Demands End to Planned Oil Drilling in Portugal

by: Martin Winiecki

“Unite the Right 2” Was a Dud, but Threat of White Nationalism Is Alive and Well

by: William Rivers Pitt

President Donald Trump speaks on August 2, 2018, at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

Is There a Cult of Trump?

by: Dahr Jamail

Politics & Elections

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo watches as former Vice President Al Gore speaks at an event at New York University, denouncing the Trump administration's proposal to open up new areas to offshore drilling, on March 9, 2018, in New York City.

Over Half a Million Dollars From Trump-Related Donors has Flowed to Andrew Cuomo

by: Decca Muldowney

Aretha Franklin Was an Icon of the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements

by: Amy Goodman

Donald Trump Thinks He Can Save GOP in the Midterms

by: Heather Digby Parton

Senate Democrats Threaten Suit to Get Kavanaugh Records

by: Jessica Corbett

Human Rights

Pioneer Valley Workers Center activists celebrated victories defending immigrant workers at the municipal level on May 1, 2018.

Building a Rapid-Response Network to Defend Immigrant Workers

by: Dan DiMaggio; Pioneer Valley Workers Center Staff

Protesters are escorted out after interrupting a Donald Trump campaign event at the University of Iowa, January 26, 2016.

How a Small Town in Iowa Freed Local Workers From ICE Detention

by: Elena Carter

"Demonstration for Palestine" by Elaine Mokhtefi; oil on canvas, 2012.

“Danger” Wasn’t a Word We Knew: Elaine Mokhtefi and the Panthers in Algiers

by: Susie Day

Self-Managed Abortion Care Becomes Urgent as Threats to Roe v. Wade Mount

by: Katie Klabusich

Exclusives

Will Trump Be Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Federal Election Law?

Will Trump Be Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Federal Election Law?

Evidence is mounting of Trump's participation. Could a grand jury name him an unindicted co-conspirator?

by: Marjorie Cohn

Trump Signs Legislation Pumping Billions More Into War Machine

Trump Signs Legislation Pumping Billions More Into War Machine

Some progressives in Congress are questioning the increased Pentagon funding at the cost of social programs.

by: Mike Ludwig

“Exhaling a Low Freedom Song”: Jackie Wang on Carceral Capitalism

“Exhaling a Low Freedom Song”: Jackie Wang on Carceral Capitalism

The state is using carceral techniques to fill revenue gaps created by shrinking tax bases.

by: James Kilgore

Environment & Health

Fish kill on South Lido Beach, Florida.

Supercharged by Pollution, Florida’s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated

by: Julie Dermansky

(L to R) Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. John Barrasso, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Sen. Bill Cassidy hold a news conference following their weekly policy luncheon, September 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Leader McConnell announced they will not vote on the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, the GOP's latest attempt at the time to gut the Affordable Care Act.

Short-Term Health Plans: A Junk Solution to a Real Problem

by: Simon Haeder

Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440 Percent in Half Decade

by: Sharon Kelly

Activists With Diabetes Take on the Global Insulin Crisis

by: Fran Quigley

Economy & Labor

“There’s an Alternative to the Hierarchical, Top-Down Capitalist Corporation”

by: Janine Jackson

Why Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act Will Be Good for Shareholders

by: Yves Smith

Senator Elizabeth Warren hosts a town hall meeting at Belkin Family Lookout Farm in Natick, Massachusetts, on July 8, 2018.

Warren Unveils Plan to Give Workers More Control Over Corporate Decisions

by: Jake Johnson

Nursing home caregivers and senior advocates with the SEIU labor union protest outside of the Carlyle Group headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. on October 22, 2007.

Medicaid Officials Target Home Health Aides’ Union Dues

by: Shefali Luthra

Art & Cartoons

Unimpeachable Logic

by: Khalil Bendib

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"Demonstration for Palestine" by Elaine Mokhtefi; oil on canvas, 2012.

Human Rights

“Danger” Wasn’t a Word We Knew: Elaine Mokhtefi and the Panthers in Algiers

Algiers, Third World Capital, is a rare glimpse into the work of the international arm of the Black Panther Party.

by: Susie Day

Book

Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers

A dizzying era of passion and promise that took place in the then revolutionary government of Algeria. A riveting memoir of international radical activism.

War & Peace

Yemeni journalist Ahmad Algohbary holds up a piece of the US-made bomb which killed 40 children last week.

US-Made Bomb Hit School Bus in Attack That Killed 40 Yemeni Children

by: Julia Conley

A US Marine conducts a rifle test at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, February 8, 2018.

The US War of Abysmal Repetition in Afghanistan

by: Tom Engelhardt

F.L.N. (National Liberation Front) soldiers, 1954-1962, in France during the Algerian War of Independence.

When Algeria Became the Liberation Capital of the “Third World”

by: Elaine Mokhtefi

Outrage Mounts Over US Role in Airstrike on Yemeni School Bus Carrying Children

Outrage Mounts Over US Role in Airstrike on Yemeni School Bus Carrying Children

by: Amy Goodman

Prison & Policing

Supporters of Florida's prison strike rally in January.

Incarcerated People in 17 US States Plan Prison Strike

by: Julia Conley

Photo of Woody Guthrie, circa 1940.

Newly Released FBI Files Expose Red-Baiting of Woody Guthrie

by: Aaron J. Leonard

“Exhaling a Low Freedom Song”: Jackie Wang on Carceral Capitalism

by: James Kilgore

Prison Firefighting Program Pays a Dollar an Hour to Fight California Wildfires

Prison Firefighting Program Pays a Dollar an Hour to Fight California Wildfires

by: Amy Goodman; Nermeen Shaikh

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

Lawyer leaving legal library

Law Students Fighting Trump Agenda Won’t Find Support at Their Schools

by: Osama Alkhawaja

Standing Against Privatization: Puerto Rico’s Teachers Strike

by: Monique Dols

Black lives matter protesters chant in the middle of the student quad during a protest against education cuts at Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois, on April 1, 2016.

Black Lives Matter in Our Schools: Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy

by: Mark Karlin

Black students in class

Teaching for Black Lives and Bearing Witness Through Poetry

by: Renée Watson

Media Justice

Danny Glover and Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You.

Danny Glover on New Film “Sorry to Bother You” and the Myth of a Postracial US

by: Zenobia Jeffries

California Lawmakers Warned to Back Net Neutrality or “Feel Constituents’ Wrath”

by: Julia Conley

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

“Big Win for the Public”: The Awful Tribune-Sinclair Merger Is Dead

by: Jake Johnson

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Quarterback Activist: Two Years in the Life of Colin Kaepernick

Commentary

Quarterback Activist: Two Years in the Life of Colin Kaepernick

by: Bill Berkowitz, BuzzFlash

Why Scientists Are No Longer Hesitating to Blame Global Warming for Extreme Weather

by: James Rainey, NBC News

ICE Detains California Man Taking Pregnant Wife to Hospital to Deliver Baby

by: Joshua Hoyos and Maia Davis, ABC News

A Huge Win for Keeping Water Systems Under Public Control

by: Dharna Noor, Next City