Op-Ed Politics & Elections Biden’s First Day Was a Good Sign — Let’s Keep Up the Pressure Let's not assume our problems are all solved now that Biden's president. We must urge fast, bold action. by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
News Environment & Health As Biden Axes KXL Pipeline, Water Protectors Urge Him to Reject DAPL and Line 3 Indigenous Water Protectors are taking direct action to stop another tar sands pipeline. by Candice Bernd, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
Op-Ed Human Rights American Muslims Demand More of Biden Than Simply Not Being Trump As a Muslim, I am relieved that Trump is out. Now let’s demand more from Biden than a return to “business as usual.” by Wardah Khalid, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
News Environment & Health The US Is Back in the Paris Agreement, But More Is Needed to Stave Off Disaster Activists are demanding the Biden-Harris administration pass a sweeping jobs bill to address the climate crisis head-on. by Leanna First-Arai, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
News Politics & Elections Biden Team Blasts Trump’s COVID Response: “Worse Than We Could Have Imagined” Biden is expected to sign several executive orders related to laying the groundwork for a comprehensive COVID strategy. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
News Analysis Prisons & Policing Eric Garner’s Mother Says We Must Push for Justice That Her Son Didn’t Receive An international inquiry commission about racist police killings opens with testimony from mothers of the victims. by Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
McConnell Is Holding Up the Senate to Protect the Filibuster As minority leader under Obama, Mitch McConnell weaponized the filibuster to stymie the president's legislative agenda. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
Kevin McCarthy Wrongly Claims He Never Voted Against Overturning Biden’s Win by Chris Walker, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
Pelosi Responds to Claims that Trump Impeachment Goes Against Calls for “Unity” by Chris Walker, Truthout Jan 21, 2021
NYC Cancels Thousands of Vaccine Appointments Due to Lack of Federal Supply States and cities have been struggling with a lack of communication and vaccine doses from the Trump administration. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Jan 20, 2021
As COVID-19 Surges, California Overrides Limits on Nurse Workloads by April Dembosky, Kaiser Health News Jan 20, 2021
US Reaches Grim Milestone of 400K COVID Deaths Days Before Trump Leaves Office by Chris Walker, Truthout Jan 19, 2021
Michigan Ex-Governor Charged With “Willful Neglect” in Flint Water Scandal by Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Jan 19, 2021
After Capitol Breach, More Domestic Terrorism Laws Aren’t the Answer More terrorism laws would only help to perpetuate the harm to democracy that the Capitol mob tried to inflict. by Carey Shenkman & Ahmed Mohamed, Truthout Jan 20, 2021
Palestine Refugees Are Forced to the Back of the COVID Vaccine Line by Medhini Kumar, Truthout Jan 18, 2021
Homeless Encampment Evictions Highlight the Cruelty of Capitalism Amid COVID by Azeezah Kanji, Truthout Jan 15, 2021
Organizers Say Urban Agriculture Is Not Just a Hobby, It’s an Act of Resilience by Laura Flanders, Truthout Jan 06, 2021
New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder Recently released FBI documents shed new light on the 1969 conspiracy to assassinate Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. by Flint Taylor & Jeff Haas, Truthout Jan 19, 2021
The Movement to Defund the Police Won’t Go Away When Biden Takes Office by Meghan Krausch, Truthout Jan 16, 2021
Republicans Are Using Capitol Breach as Excuse to Promote Anti-Protest Bills by Leanna First-Arai, Truthout Jan 16, 2021
Police Are Three Times More Likely to Use Force Against the Left, Data Shows by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Jan 14, 2021