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September 20, 2018

Economy & Labor

Striking Hotel Workers: “Slow Season” No Excuse for Losing Health Care

Some hotels have denied health coverage for eight months in a year, claiming it was "slow season."

by Bryce Covert, Truthout

September 20, 2018

Politics & Elections

Kavanaugh Poses a Threat to Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

This fast-growing voting bloc has vowed to hold accountable all who vote to confirm the Supreme Court nominee.

by Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Truthout

September 20, 2018

Prisons & Policing

Private Prison Officials Allowed to Force-Feed Immigrant Hunger Strikers

Activists say hunger strikers faced retaliation after protests at a privately run immigration jail.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

September 20, 2018

Politics & Elections

Nomination by Death Threat: Picking a Justice in the Age of Trump

Death threats: how we choose Supreme Court justices today.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

Unite Here Local 1 hotel workers on strike demonstrate in downtown Chicago, Illinois, September 17, 2018. — Striking Hotel Workers: “Slow Season” No Excuse for Losing Health Care

An anti-Kavanaugh sign from a protest in Foley Square, New York City, August 26, 2018. — Kavanaugh Poses a Threat to Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

Prisoner with head in hands — Private Prison Officials Allowed to Force-Feed Immigrant Hunger Strikers

Nomination by Death Threat: Picking a Justice in the Age of Trump

Featured

McDonald's workers are joined by other activists as they march toward the company's headquarters to protest sexual harassment at the fast-food chain's restaurants on September 18, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

Historic McDonald’s Strike Brings Anti-Harassment Fight to Picket Line

by: Michael Arria

Rainwater from Hurricane Florence causes a "waterfall" of coal ash from a waste landfill at the site of a power plant operated by Duke Energy near Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 16, 2018.

Hurricane Florence Unleashes Coal Ash, Sending Toxic Warning to EPA

by: Mike Ludwig

Church members stand with the family of Botham Shem Jean at a press conference after the funeral service at Greenville Avenue Church of Christ on September 13, 2018, in Richardson, Texas.

Why Dallas Authorities Are Desperate to Attack Botham Jean’s Character

by: Candice Bernd

Boatswain's Mate Dimitri Georgoulopoulos looks out as members of a punt team with the Coast Guard perform searches through flood waters in the MayFair neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence on September 17, 2018, in Lumberton, North Carolina.

Florence: A Preview of Our Climate Future

by: Dahr Jamail

Politics & Elections

President Trump speaks to members of the media prior to a Marine One departure at the south lawn of the White House on September 19, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Learning the Power of Lies: Facts vs. Falsehoods in the Age of Trump

by: Arnold R. Isaacs

Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley listens during a markup hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 13, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Chuck Grassley Is “Unfazed and Determined” to Confirm Kavanaugh

by: Jon Queally

An anti-Kavanaugh sign from a protest in Foley Square, New York City, August 26, 2018.

Kavanaugh Poses a Threat to Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

by: Sung Yeon Choimorrow

Nomination by Death Threat: Picking a Justice in the Age of Trump

by: William Rivers Pitt

Human Rights

Two Women From Mental Health Facility Drown in Flood During Transport

Two Women Drown in Flood While Chained in Sheriff’s Van

by: Amy Goodman; Nermeen Shaikh

A North Carolina National Guard truck drives through flood waters caused by Hurricane Florence around an apartment complex on September 18, 2018, in Spring Lake, North Carolina.

Heightened Policing Keeps Farmworkers Vulnerable in the Wake of Florence

by: Danica Jorden

North Carolina’s Two Storms: Florence and the Policies Keeping People in Poverty

by: Amy Goodman; Juan González

Immigrants Seeking Shelter Fear Deportation as FEMA Shifts Funds to ICE

Immigrants Seeking Shelter Fear Deportation as FEMA Shifts Funds to ICE

by: Amy Goodman; Juan González

Exclusives

As the Biosphere Dies, So Do We: Using the Power of Nature to Heal the Planet

As the Biosphere Dies, So Do We: Using the Power of Nature to Heal the Planet

Some experts believe it is essential to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide via natural processes.

by: Dahr Jamail

John Bolton Escalates Blackmail to Shield US War Criminals

John Bolton Escalates Blackmail to Shield US War Criminals

Those who committed torture in Afghanistan or killed civilians in Gaza would not be held accountable for war crimes.

by: Marjorie Cohn

Ted Cruz Might Lose, and Other Giddy Tidbits From Election 2018

Ted Cruz Might Lose, and Other Giddy Tidbits From Election 2018

There's something happening here, and it ain't all Trump.

by: William Rivers Pitt

Environment & Health

How Forbes Global 2000 Companies Are Undermining Climate Policy

by: Chloe Farand

Like Hurricane Florence, Climate Policy Has Dangerously Stalled

by: Robert Walker

Twenty-Five Zones Along Shell Falcon Pipeline Are at Risk of Explosions

by: Kristina Marusic

As the Biosphere Dies, So Do We: Using the Power of Nature to Heal the Planet

by: Dahr Jamail

Economy & Labor

Lehman Brothers Headquarters in midtown Manhattan at night.

Retrospectives of the Financial Crisis Leave Out Its Victims

by: David Dayen

Unite Here Local 1 hotel workers on strike demonstrate in downtown Chicago, Illinois, September 17, 2018.

Striking Hotel Workers: “Slow Season” No Excuse for Losing Health Care

by: Bryce Covert

A person walks past the remains of the Packard Motor Car Company, which ceased production in the late 1950s, November 19, 2008, in Detroit, Michigan.

Why Labor Is Holding Applause for Michigan’s Latest “Workers’ Rights” Measures

by: Bryce Covert

Cheap Tricks With Economic Statistics: The Democratic Version

by: Dean Baker

Art & Cartoons

The Never Ending Story - This Modern World

The Never Ending Story

by: Tom Tomorrow

Kavanaugh's Oath

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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

A Yemeni school administrator inspects damage to a school on the first day of the new academic year on September 16, 2018. The school suffered an airstrike last year during fighting between Saudi-backed government forces and pro-Iranian Huthi rebels in the country's third-largest city of Taez.

Yemen’s Descent Into Hell: A Saudi-American War of Terror

by: Rajan Menon

Soldiers ready a tank in the Afghan capital city of Kabul on February 22, 1989.

The West Ignores Afghanistan at Its Peril

by: Dana E. Abizaid

People look at a 20-year-old picture of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (right) shaking hands with late Jordanian King Hussein (left) while former President Bill Clinton applauds, framed by the words "peace" in Arabic and Hebrew. The photo is a memorial in the place where Rabin was assassinated in the Israeli Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv in 1995.

From Peace to Armageddon: The Israel-Palestine Nightmare

by: Sandy Tolan

John Bolton, national security adviser, listens during a meeting with Donald Trump and Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House on May 17, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Bolton Threatens International Criminal Court Over Probes Into US War Crimes

by: Jake Johnson

Prison & Policing

South Carolina Prisoners Were Left in Cells as Florence Descended

South Carolina Prisoners Were Left in Cells as Florence Descended

by: Amy Goodman; Nermeen Shaikh

Prisoner with head in hands

Private Prison Officials Allowed to Force-Feed Immigrant Hunger Strikers

by: Mike Ludwig

Prison bars and razor wire

The National Prisons Strike Is Over. Now Is When Prisoners Are Most in Danger.

by: Heather Ann Thompson

Kevin Cooper

Fighting for Freedom From Death Row: The Story of Kevin Cooper

by: Danny Katch; Jen Roesch; Eric Ruder

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

Children's hands up to answer question

Curiosity Is Political: We Must Nurture It if We Hope to Change the World

by: Eva-Maria Swidler

A Miami-Dade Police officer stands guard at the front entrance to the Kenwood K-8 Center on August 24, 2018, in Miami, Florida.

“Punitive Discipline Policies Have Proven to Be Destructive to Children”

by: Janine Jackson

Woman in silhouette, holding forehead

Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis

by: Daniela Senderowicz

A Black student at Apache Junction High School in Arizona was arrested by police on August 10, 2018, for refusing to remove his bandana.

This School Year, Let’s Keep Kids in Classrooms

by: Daniela Aspiazu

Media Justice

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies on the third day of his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill September 6, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Kavanaugh’s Hearings Have an Unprecedented Level of Secrecy and Non-Transparency

by: Janine Jackson

A Yemeni school administrator inspects damage to a school on the first day of the new academic year on September 16, 2018. The school suffered an airstrike last year during fighting between Saudi-backed government forces and pro-Iranian Huthi rebels in the country's third-largest city of Taez.

Violence in Yemen Won’t End if the US Continues to Support Saudi Arabia

by: Janine Jackson

Facebook Censors Kavanaugh Story After a Conservative Site Calls It “Fake News”

by: Amy Goodman

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai speaks with Sen. Steve Daines prior to testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 17, 2018, in Washington, DC.

The FCC Chair Is Outright Lying to Reporters and Congress

by: Janine Jackson

Buzzflash

Buzzflash.com provides original commentary and progressive news aggregation.

Brett Kavanaugh, Disability and the True Cost of His Nomination

Commentary

Brett Kavanaugh, Disability and the True Cost of His Nomination

by: Raul Carranzo, BuzzFlash

Liberty University Film Claims Trump's Election Divinely Ordained

by: Bill Berkowitz , BuzzFlash

The Radical Boldness of the McDonald’s Sexual-Harassment Strike

by: Bryce Covert, NY Mag

The ACLU Is Charging Facebook With Gender Discrimination In Its Targeted Ads

by: Nicole Nguyen, BuzzFeed News