Truthout

October 15, 2018

Prisons & Policing

San Francisco’s Earthquake-Unsafe Jail Leaves Prisoners in Peril

The Hall of Justice jail sits on soil that could liquefy and swallow parts of the building in an earthquake.

by Toshio Meronek, Truthout

October 15, 2018

We Stopped ICE From Getting an Extra Billion; Now Let’s Defund It Totally

Even in this reactionary political climate, grassroots organizing can help us get rid of an inhumane agency like ICE.

by Kathryn Johnson, Truthout

October 15, 2018

Environment & Health

Catastrophic Hurricanes Should Force US to Reassess Climate Policy

Politicians who refuse to curtail greenhouse gas emissions should be forced to take responsibility for the damage.

by Dean Baker, Truthout

October 15, 2018

Education & Youth

Unaffordable Higher Education Leads to Low Graduation Rates

Activists and students across the US are organizing for legislative solutions to make higher education debt-free.

by Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout

The facade of the San Francisco Hall of Justice, a courthouse which is part of the criminal court of the city of San Francisco, California, on October 13, 2017. — San Francisco’s Earthquake-Unsafe Jail Leaves Prisoners in Peril

We Stopped ICE From Getting an Extra Billion; Now Let’s Defund It Totally

Catastrophic Hurricanes Should Force US to Reassess Climate Policy

Unaffordable Higher Education Leads to Low Graduation Rates

Featured

Why the FBI Used Its Kid Gloves on Brett Kavanaugh

by: Aaron J. Leonard

Anti-Terrorism Laws Increasingly Used to Target Indigenous Activists

by: Sandra Cuffe

UPS driver with delivery van

In a Blow to Labor, Teamsters Ratify UPS Contract Despite “No” Vote

by: Candice Bernd

US President Donald Trump speaks with former President Barack Obama as former Vice President Joe Biden and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer look on during his inauguration ceremonies at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2017.

Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” Shows Democrats’ Complicity in Electing Trump

by: Bruce E. Levine

Politics & Elections

Protesters demonstrate against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh outside the US Supreme Court on October 3, 2018, in Washington, DC.

How Guantánamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

by: Karen J. Greenberg

Khashoggi’s Disappearance Is Sending a Gruesome Message to Critics

by: Amy Goodman

Four Ways Georgia Is Suppressing Voters as Early Voting Begins

by: Jonathan Brater; Rebecca Ayala

People protest in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2017. Trump's administration is aggressively pushing measures to restrict public protest and citizen participation.

Trump’s Aggressive Plans to Stifle Democracy

by: David Halperin

Human Rights

Anger at Trump Inaction as Hurricane Michael Leaves Millions Without Basic Needs

by: Jake Johnson

Trump Administration Hints It May Resume Family Separation at Border

by: Amy Goodman

Young Muslim LGBTQ Activists Fight for Right to Love and Worship Freely

by: Shaima Shamdeen

We Stopped ICE From Getting an Extra Billion; Now Let’s Defund It Totally

by: Kathryn Johnson

Exclusives

Women of Color Are Running for Office in Record Numbers

Women of Color Are Running for Office in Record Numbers

The number of women of color running for Congress has increased by 75 percent since 2012.

by: Mike Ludwig

Five Ways to Make Direct Action Organizing Less Ableist

Five Ways to Make Direct Action Organizing Less Ableist

You cannot organize in support of the marginalized, yet exclude disabled people from those spaces.

by: Jen Deerinwater

In Yemen, Trump Is Taking Tolerance for War Crimes to a New Level

In Yemen, Trump Is Taking Tolerance for War Crimes to a New Level

Those of us who oppose the war in Yemen must dig in for a serious fight.

by: Khury Petersen-Smith

Environment & Health

Catastrophic Hurricanes Should Force US to Reassess Climate Policy

by: Dean Baker

A girl helps her family peeling cassava in Acará, in the northeast of Brazil's Amazon jungle. More than five million children are chronically malnourished in Latin America, a region sliding backwards with respect to the goal of eradicating hunger and extreme poverty, while obesity, which affects seven million children, is on the rise.

Latin America Backslides in Struggle to Reach Zero Hunger Goal

by: Orlando Milesi

When a dolphin species becomes extinct, we lose not only a beautiful animal but also a society and its culture.

How Genetics and Pollution Are Threatening Wild Dolphins

by: Meena Miriam Yust

Clothes, needles and other drug paraphilia lay in the spaces between tents and other living areas at a homeless encampment in the Kensington section of Philadelphia on May 30, 2018.

“The Total Failure” of Trump’s Drug War Policies

by: Janine Jackson

Economy & Labor

In the Age of Amazon, Is There a Conscientious Way to Shop?

by: Janine Jackson

College students and potential employers meet at the Barnard College Career Fair on September 7, 2012, in New York City

Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

by: Erica West

Striking Chicago public school teachers and their supporters march through the streets following a rally at Union Park September 15, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois.

It’s Time to Write Women Back Into Labor History

by: Eve Ottenberg

Ben Carson Wants HUD to Stop Fighting Housing Segregation

by: Rejane Frederick; Heidi Schultheis

Art & Cartoons

Trump’s Best Court Ever

by: Khalil Bendib

Donald Trump, Detective in Chief

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A USA flag hangs in the window of a vacant building in downtown Keyser, West Virginia.

Politics & Elections

What Liberals Have Gotten Wrong About Main Street USA

Democrats should take voters’ concerns seriously rather than blowing them off, says Thomas Frank.

by: Mark Karlin

Book

Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society

With one major political party ruthless and hypocritical, and the other major political party feckless and ineffective, the United States is headed for a rendezvous with oblivion.

War & Peace

Displaced Yemeni children from the Hodeidah province are pictured on September 30, 2018, through a hole in a damaged house where they have been living with other displaced families in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taez. The conflict has triggered what the UN describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with 22 million people in need of humanitarian aid.

In Yemen, Trump Is Taking Tolerance for War Crimes to a New Level

by: Khury Petersen-Smith

Dave Hancock, a veteran from the war in Vietnam, participates in an antiwar protest in front of the White House December 16, 2010, in Washington, DC.

A Majority of Veterans Want Troops to Return From Afghanistan

by: Mike Ludwig

Donald Trump holds a lunch meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (center left) and members of his delegation in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2018.

Is the Current US-Saudi Relationship “Unreformable”?

by: Robert Naiman

A boy looks at a banner of the Al Kubra hall after it was hit by airstrikes on October 8, 2018, in Sana'a, Yemen.

Civilian Deaths in Yemen Increased by 164 Percent. Will Congress Act?

by: Gabe Murphy

Prison & Policing

The facade of the San Francisco Hall of Justice, a courthouse which is part of the criminal court of the city of San Francisco, California, on October 13, 2017.

San Francisco’s Earthquake-Unsafe Jail Leaves Prisoners in Peril

by: Toshio Meronek

Demonstrators protest as they celebrate the verdict in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke along Michigan Avenue on October 5, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

In Convicting Van Dyke, Chicago Jury Rejected Broader Policing Norms

by: Sheila A. Bedi; David Anderson Hooker

How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?

by: Victoria Law

The Power of Public Outrage: Laquan McDonald’s Place in History

by: Flint Taylor

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.

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Education & Youth

Unaffordable Higher Education Leads to Low Graduation Rates

by: Eleanor J. Bader

The cost of going to college is consuming a larger portion of household income, particularly for students and families of color who already face structural barriers to education and employment.

Students Are Paying More at Public Colleges and Getting Less in Return

by: Mike Ludwig

The Activists on the Front Lines of the Battle for Educational Justice in the US

by: Amy Goodman

Students at the University of Colorado Boulder join a divestment rally on April 14, 2014, in Boulder, Colorado.

Colleges Have a Responsibility to Divest From Fossil Fuels

by: Jennie C. Stephens

Media Justice

Facebook Accused of “Full-Frontal Suppression of Dissent”

by: Jake Johnson

New Internet Bill of Rights Introduced in Wake of Digital Privacy Breaches

by: Amy Goodman

Colonizing Histories and Rebranding Pocahontas

by: Maile Arvin

Tangled in the Garden of Good and Evil

by: Norman Solomon

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Few Democrats Offer Alternatives for War-Weary Voters

Commentary

Few Democrats Offer Alternatives for War-Weary Voters

by: Jeff Cohen, BuzzFlash

Undercover Cops Use Facebook to Track Political Protesters

by: Bill Berkowitz, BuzzFlash

No Food, No FEMA: Hurricane Michael's Survivors Are Furious

by: Ingrid Arnesen, Daily Beast

Stop Working for Fox News

by: Hamilton Nolan, Splinter News