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October 16, 2018

Economy & Labor

Will Trump’s Policies Wreak Havoc on the US and Global Economies?

Economics professor Gerald Epstein explains why Trump's economic policies will ultimately be extremely disruptive.

by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout

October 16, 2018

Environment & Health

Carbon Capture: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change

Here's a harsh climate reality: Extracting carbon already emitted is as important as reaching zero output.

by Daniel Ross, Truthout

October 16, 2018

Politics & Elections

It’s Time to Honor Victims, Not Perpetrators, of US Brutality

Acknowledging the victims of slavery and colonization will be a first step toward granting equal rights.

by Porshéa Patterson, Truthout

October 16, 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

President Trump talks to reporters before leaving the White House, October 15, 2018, in Washington, DC. — Will Trump’s Policies Wreak Havoc on the US and Global Economies?

Here's a harsh climate reality: Extracting carbon already emitted is as important as reaching zero output. — Carbon Capture: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change

A statue of Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson stands at the intersection of Monument Avenue and North Boulevard, August 23, 2017, in Richmond, Virginia. — It’s Time to Honor Victims, Not Perpetrators, of US Brutality

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

Featured

Why the FBI Used Its Kid Gloves on Brett Kavanaugh

by: Aaron J. Leonard,; 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

by: Toshio Meronek,; Truthout

Unaffordable Higher Education Leads to Low Graduation Rates

by: Eleanor J. Bader,; Truthout

Catastrophic Hurricanes Should Force US to Reassess Climate Policy

by: Dean Baker,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

Republicans in North Dakota Want to Disenfranchise Thousands of Native Voters

North Dakota Republicans Want to Disenfranchise Thousands of Native Voters

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

Floridians Will Vote on Whether to Restore Voting Rights to 1.4 Million People

Floridians Will Vote on Whether to Restore Voting Rights to 1.4 Million People

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

As Maine's health commissioner, Mary Mayhew was instrumental in helping block Medicaid expansion there.

Trump’s Horrifying Medicaid Pick Was Hired to Dismantle the Program

by: Jessica Corbett,; Common Dreams

In just a few years, voting districts will be redrawn across the country.

Citizen and Legislative Efforts to Reform Redistricting in 2018

by: Alexis Farmer &; Annie Lo,; Brennan Center for Justice

Human Rights

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

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Trump Administration Hints It May Resume Family Separation at Border

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

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

by: Shaima Shamdeen,; YES! Magazine

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

by: Kathryn Johnson,; Truthout

Exclusives

Anti-Terrorism Laws Increasingly Used to Target Indigenous Activists

Anti-Terrorism Laws Increasingly Used to Target Indigenous Activists

Terrorism laws are regularly invoked to criminalize Indigenous opposition to extractive projects on their land.

by: Sandra Cuffe,; Truthout

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

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

The union ratified the US's largest private-sector contract over members' wishes that they return to the table.

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

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

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

The film confronts liberals with some uncomfortable realities about the Democratic Party.

by: Bruce E. Levine,; Truthout

Environment & Health

Ongoing construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin.

Despite Lingering Land Dispute, Bayou Bridge Pipeline Is Nearly Complete

by: Julie Dermansky,; DeSmogBlog

Here's a harsh climate reality: Extracting carbon already emitted is as important as reaching zero output.

Carbon Capture: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change

by: Daniel Ross,; Truthout

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,; Inter Press Service

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,; Truthout

Economy & Labor

UPS workers are pushing for $15 an hour for part-timers as well as increased health care.

Chicago Teamsters Consider Peak Season Strike at UPS

by: Alexandra Bradbury,; Labor Notes

President Trump talks to reporters before leaving the White House, October 15, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Will Trump’s Policies Wreak Havoc on the US and Global Economies?

by: C.J. Polychroniou,; Truthout

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

by: Janine Jackson,; FAIR

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,; Socialist Worker

Art & Cartoons

A Taxing Day at the Polls

A Taxing Day at the Polls

by: Jen Sorensen,; Truthout

Cartoons

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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,; Truthout

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,; Truthout

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,; Truthout

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,; Truthout

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,; Truthout

Prison & Policing

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,; USA TODAY

How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?

by: Victoria Law,; Filter

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

by: Flint Taylor,; Truthout

Prisoner trapped in increasing heat

Officials Literally “Blow Hot Air” to Mitigate Heat in Texas Prisons

by: Candice Bernd,; 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

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The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

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,; Truthout

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

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

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,; The Conversation

Freshman Maya McCollum talks to reporters outside Howard University's administration building in Washington, DC, where she and fellow students are sitting-in to protest the university policies, tuition hikes and neglect of student affairs on March 31, 2018.

How Students at Black Colleges Are Addressing Sexual Assault on Campus

by: Eryn Mathewson,; Making Contact

Media Justice

Facebook Accused of “Full-Frontal Suppression of Dissent”

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

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

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Colonizing Histories and Rebranding Pocahontas

by: Maile Arvin,; Truthout

Tangled in the Garden of Good and Evil

by: Norman Solomon,; The Nation

Buzzflash

Buzzflash.com provides original commentary and progressive news aggregation.

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