Truthout

April 20, 2019

House Appropriations Committee Holds Hearing On EPA Budget

News Environment & Health

Trump Appointed Fossil Fuel Insiders to Federal Agencies. It’s Backfiring.

EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, is facing ethics complaints.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

April 20, 2019

Goldman Sachs Tower in Jersey City

Op-Ed Economy & Labor

I’ve Seen Goldman Sachs From the Inside. We Need Public Banks.

We need to move away from the Wall Street model of banking, which privatizes profit while socializing harm.

by Nomi Prins, Truthout

April 20, 2019

Donald Trump looks out from behind a blurry foreground

News Analysis Politics & Elections

No More Excuses. Donald Trump Must Be Impeached.

The Mueller report is a brutal, vital read from front to back.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

April 20, 2019

A man speaks at a podium surrounded by other protesters

Op-Ed Economy & Labor

Stop & Shop Strikers Are Standing Up for All Grocery Workers

The outcome of the Stop & Shop strike will have implications for workers nationwide.

by John Logan, Truthout

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler testifies during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing regarding President Donald Trump’s FY2020 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency, on April 2, 2019, in Washington, D.C. — Trump Appointed Fossil Fuel Insiders to Federal Agencies. It’s Backfiring.

Clouds pass over the Goldman Sachs Tower on April 8, 2018, in Jersey City, New Jersey. — I’ve Seen Goldman Sachs From the Inside. We Need Public Banks.

Donald Trump looks out from behind a blurry foreground — No More Excuses. Donald Trump Must Be Impeached.

A man speaks at a podium surrounded by other protesters — Stop & Shop Strikers Are Standing Up for All Grocery Workers

Featured

Notre Dame Cathedrial burns as plumes of smoke rise into the sky

As We Mourn Notre Dame, Let Us Remember Black Churches Also Matter

by: Eisa Nefertari Ulen,; Truthout

While many high schools nationwide lack counselors on staff, 67 percent have a police officer.

Officer Attack on Teen Reignites National Debate on Cops in Schools

by: Chelli Stanley,; Truthout

Tuna fish are being lift with a crane in sea farmings, where tunas are being breed and prepared to be sold to Japan and European countries, in Karaburun district of Izmir, Turkey on October 14, 2018.

Megacorporations Want More Ocean Farms. That’s a Huge Mistake.

by: Cristian Salazar,; Truthout

Israel promotes its "vegan-friendly" army and animal rights record while Palestinians suffer.

Israel Uses Animal Rights to Distract From War Crimes

by: Azeezah Kanji,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

Six years after it was excoriated for allegedly targeting conservative organizations, the agency has largely given up on regulating an entire category of nonprofits. The result: More dark money gushes into the political system.

How the IRS Gave Up Fighting Political Dark Money Groups

by: Maya Miller,; ProPublica

The version of the report released is only the start of wide-ranging and intensive House investigations.

How Congress Can Follow Up on the Incomplete and Redacted Mueller Report

by: Charles Tiefer,; The Conversation

Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston on the Mueller Report

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Sarah Huckabee Sanders looks onward while standing at a podium

After Mueller, White House Press Secretary Is Toast

by: Sophia Tesfaye,; Salon

Exclusives

At Last, Mueller Reveals [REDACTED]

At Last, Mueller Reveals [REDACTED]

Don’t get your hopes up. The most important parts of the report likely won’t see the light of day. Yet.

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Mike Gravel Is Running for President — But He Doesn’t Want to Win

Mike Gravel Is Running for President — But He Doesn’t Want to Win

The 88-year-old ex-senator was recruited by teenage democratic socialists to push Democratic candidates to the left.

by: Robert R. Raymond,; Truthout

Trump Wants to Maintain US Empire But Without the Alliances

Trump Wants to Maintain US Empire But Without the Alliances

Trump is seeking to control the U.S. empire from a walled-off fortress without war coalitions or alliances.

by: C.J. Polychroniou,; Truthout

Environment & Health

Posters displayed by Climate change activists near the entrance of the Societe Generale bank headquarters in La Defense, near Paris, depicting French President Emmanuel Macron with the words "Macron President of polluters" during an environmental protest called by the NGO Extinction Rebellion.

Climate Campaigners Stage One of France’s Largest Acts of Civil Disobedience

by: Jessica Corbett,; Common Dreams

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler testifies during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing regarding President Donald Trump’s FY2020 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency, on April 2, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Trump Appointed Fossil Fuel Insiders to Federal Agencies. It’s Backfiring.

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Noam Chomsky: The Green New Deal Is Exactly the Right Idea

Noam Chomsky Says the Green New Deal Is Exactly the Right Idea

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Coal-fired Bruce Mansfield Power Plant viewed from front porch of home.

Trump Wants to End Regulation That Cut Mercury Pollution by 81 Percent

by: Daniel Wolk,; Truthout

Economy & Labor

More than 100 nurses hold a one-day strike to protest declining working conditions at Providence Little Company of Mary hospital in San Pedro on November 27, 2018.

Nurses Are Leading Strike Efforts — Where Are the Physicians?

by: Mike Pappas,; Left Voice

Clouds pass over the Goldman Sachs Tower on April 8, 2018, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

I’ve Seen Goldman Sachs From the Inside. We Need Public Banks.

by: Nomi Prins,; Truthout

Young adults carry a green "GREEN NEW DEAL" sign during a large protest

It’s Time to Transform the Tax Code and Implement a Green New Deal

by: Howie Hawkins,; Popular Resistance

A man speaks at a podium surrounded by other protesters

Stop & Shop Strikers Are Standing Up for All Grocery Workers

by: John Logan,; Truthout

Immigration

Two men in camoflague and an attack dog walk through the desert

ACLU Demands Investigation Into Pro-Trump Fascist Militia Detaining Migrants

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Members of the migrant caravan walk past a U.S. Border Patrol agent at the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 2, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico.

Good Samaritans Punished for Offering Lifesaving Help to Migrants

by: Debbie Nathan,; The Appeal

Activists march across Brooklyn Bridge support of immigrant rights

Real Sanctuary Demands More Than Lip Service. Cities Must Step Up.

by: Tania Unzueta,; Truthout

Two children look through a chail link fence at a detention center

With Jailed Asylum-Seekers on the Rise, Detention Contractors Reap Profits

by: Camille Erickson,; Center for Responsive Politics

Racial Justice

Candace Owens of Turning Point USA, seated next to Zionist Organization of America President Mort Klein, testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing discussing hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism on Capitol Hill on April 9, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Republicans Twist White Nationalism Hearing Into Islamophobic Forum

by: Shilpa Jindia,; Truthout

Nipsey Hustle stands in a darkened environment

Nipsey’s Murder Reminds Us That We Live in a Lethal Anti-Black Society

by: William C. Anderson,; Truthout

A message to Christchurch is displayed on a big screen during a National Remembrance Service at Waitangi Park on March 29, 2019, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Settler Colonialism Lurked Beneath the Christchurch Massacre

by: Azeezah Kanji &; David Palumbo-Liu,; Truthout

Z, the founder of Black Socialists of America, meets with Cooperation Jackson co-founder Kali Akuno and others at the 2018 Fearless Cities conference in New York City, shortly before Black Socialists of America and Cooperation Jackson formally agreed to a partnership.

Socialist Principles Have Always Been Part of Black American Tradition

by: Robert R. Raymond,; Truthout

LGBTQ Rights

U.S Representative Mary Gay Scanion (D-PA) speaks on introduction of the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBTQ non-discrimination bill at the U.S. Capitol on April 01, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

The Crisis of Violence Against Transgender People Is Not a “Myth”

by: Gillian Branstetter,; Rewire.News

Julia Beck testifies on the reauthorization the Violence Against Women Act

House Republicans Use “Lesbian Radical Feminist” to Advance Anti-Trans Rhetoric

by: Heron Greenesmith,; Rewire.News

Empire actor Jussie Smollett leaves Cook County jail after posting bond on February 21, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. Too much focus on Jussie Smollet distracts from the fact that violence against LGBTQ people of color is rising.

Racist Anti-LGBTQ Violence Is Real. Smollett Doesn’t Change That.

by: Barbara Ransby,; Truthout

Trump Administration Wants to Deny Health Care to LGBTQ People

by: s.e. smith,; Rewire.News

Prisons & Policing

Razor wire fence outside of a prison

Locking Up Drug “Dealers” to Save Users Doesn’t Make Anyone Safer

by: Alyssa Stryker,; Truthout

Women in red shirts demonstrate with a sign reading "COUNT OUR VOTES"

Senators Take Step Forward on Voting Rights Restoration

by: Makeda Yohannes,; Brennan Center for Justice

Police form a line in front of protesters during a May Day protest in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Policing Worsens Public Safety for Puerto Rico’s Most Vulnerable

by: Marisol LeBrón,; University of California Press

Protesters hold a candlelight vigil and a march calling for the end of the drug war on September 6, 2012, in New York City. The influence of the drug war has reshaped U.S. society.

Calculating the Damage From a Century of Drug Prohibition

by: Alfred W. McCoy,; TomDispatch

War & Peace

International Criminal Court Drops Probe Into US War Crimes in Afghanistan

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

Crisis in Libya Worsens as Over 170 Killed in Attack on Tripoli

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

a little girl recieves care from a doctor while lying in a hospital bed

Trump Vetoes Resolution to End US Complicity in Yemen Crisis

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Donald Trump leaves Air Force One

Trump Wants to Maintain US Empire But Without the Alliances

by: C.J. Polychroniou,; Truthout

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Education & Youth

In bloated classrooms with more students than the room is fit to hold, teachers must largely engage in crowd management and little more.

Making US Schools Less Great Again

by: Belle Chesler,; TomDispatch

Academic Freedom at Risk After Decades of Attacks and Underfunding

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

Members of Johns Hopkins Students Against Private Police and Hopkins Anti-ICE Coalition sit under a banner on April 4, 2019, in the university president's office building after sitting in overnight.

The Militarization of Johns Hopkins Exposes a Nationwide Trend

by: Corey Payne &; Steph Saxton,; Truthout

An illustration of a graduating man with people watching him from behind a fence

From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged

by: Eisa Nefertari Ulen,; Truthout

Culture & Media

Two versions of actress Lupita Nyong'o stand back to back

Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Middle-Class Guilt Trip

by: Nicholas Powers,; Truthout

A van bearing a message in support of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange sits outside an apartment complex

Assange’s Indictment Treats Journalism as a Crime

by: Marjorie Cohn,; Truthout

President Trump waves to the audience ahead of the State of the Union address

The Man Who Saw Trump Coming a Century Ago

by: Ann Jones,; TomDispatch

Joe Biden stands amidst journalists on a sidewalk

Ignoring Lessons of #MeToo, Media Scrutinize Joe Biden’s Accusers

by: Naomi LaChance,; FAIR