Truthout

November 19, 2018

Interview Environment & Health

Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature

To overcome climate change, we require system change.

by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout

November 19, 2018

Op-Ed Politics & Elections

House Republicans, Terrible Before the Midterms, Are Now Much Worse

The Republican Party has crossed its own event horizon.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

November 19, 2018

News Politics & Elections

Historic Wave of Women Candidates Sweep to Power on Guam

For many in Guam, this year's elections have raised hopes for self-determination after a century of US occupation.

by Jon Letman, Truthout

November 19, 2018

News Environment & Health

Parents Deliver Ashes of Diabetic Children to Price-Gouging Insulin Manufacturer

When people die from lack of access to medicine, health care profiteers should expect resistance.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature

Incoming House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) emerges from the House Republican Conference accompanied by his leadership team to speak to journalists in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Wednesday November 14, 2018. — House Republicans, Terrible Before the Midterms, Are Now Much Worse

Historic Wave of Women Candidates Sweep to Power on Guam

Parents Deliver Ashes of Diabetic Children to Price-Gouging Insulin Manufacturer

Featured

Authoritarian Rule to Revolution: What Can the US Learn From Mexico?

by: Carter Vance,; Truthout

A Socialist Response to Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers’ Report

by: Vaios Triantafyllou,; Truthout

President Trump makes an announcement regarding the "First Step Act" prison reform bill at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2018.

What the Latest Bipartisan Prison Reform Gets Wrong and Why It Matters

by: Dan Berger,; Truthout

A man taking part in a caravan of migrants from Central American countries moving towards the United States heads to Irapuato in the state of Guanajuato on November 11, 2018, after spending the night in Queretaro in central Mexico.

Solidarity Abolishes Borders

by: William C. Anderson,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

In-Coming Progressives Embrace Primary Challenges and Bold Agenda

by: Jon Queally,; Common Dreams

How Tammy Baldwin Sent the Koch Brothers and Their Minions Packing

by: Mary Bottari,; Center for Media and Democracy

Historic Wave of Women Candidates Sweep to Power on Guam

by: Jon Letman,; Truthout

President Trump delivers remarks on supporting veterans and military families at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 15, 2018.

Trump’s Craft Strategy: Discredit Everyone Until Nobody Believes Anything

by: Heather Digby Parton,; Salon

Economy & Labor

Louisiana Teachers Mobilize Against ExxonMobil Tax Exemption

by: Barbara Madeloni,; Labor Notes

Poverty Isn’t Neglect, But the State Took My Children Anyway

by: Elizabeth Brico,; TalkPoverty.org

In the Pacific Northwest, Paraeducators Lead Their First Strike in Recent Wave

by: Dan DiMaggio,; Labor Notes

Windmills in Germany, Roetgen.

Green New Deal? Bring It! But Don’t Forget Your Union Card.

by: Lauren Burke,; Inequality.org

Exclusives

California Wildfires: Where Is the Climate Change Outrage?

California Wildfires: Where Is the Climate Change Outrage?

The recent and ongoing catastrophic wildfires in California indicate we have crossed a dangerous threshold of warming.

by: Bruce Melton,; Truthout

The Midterms Did Not Stop the March of Fascism, But We Can

The Midterms Did Not Stop the March of Fascism, But We Can

We currently lack the united front to fight fascism in this country. That front is necessary, because fascism is rising.

by: Kelly Hayes &; Maya Schenwar,; Truthout

The Global Extinction Rebellion Begins

The Global Extinction Rebellion Begins

Activists in the UK are channeling their horror about the climate emergency into a global movement for survival.

by: Dahr Jamail,; Truthout

Environment & Health

How to Help California Wildfire Survivors

by: s.e. smith,; Care2

Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature

by: C.J. Polychroniou,; Truthout

Press conference on chlorpyrifos, a controversial insecticide, on July 25, 2017.

Industry Studies Show Bias and Misleading Conclusions on Widely Used Insecticide

by: Brian Bienkowski,; Environmental Health News

In this aerial photo, a burned neighborhood is seen in Paradise, California on November 15, 2018.

California Wildfires: Where Is the Climate Change Outrage?

by: Bruce Melton,; Truthout

Reproductive Rights

The Rules of the Economy Are Taking a Tragic Toll on Women and Their Pregnancies

by: Kendra Bozarth &; Andrea Flynn,; Roosevelt Institute

Alabama and West Virginia doubled down on anti-abortion laws as Oregon overwhelmingly rejected an abortion restriction measure.

Voters in Alabama and West Virginia Approve Anti-Abortion Measures

by: Katie Klabusich,; Truthout

Anti-Choice Measures Are on the Ballot in Three States Next Week

by: Lauren Holter,; Rewire.News

Self-Managed Early Abortion Care Is Now Accessible Online in the US

by: Auditi Guha,; Rewire.News

Art & Cartoons

Battering Ram

by: Khalil Bendib,; OtherWords

Cartoons

Cutting edge humor by Jen Sorenson, Tom Tomorrow, Khalil Bendib, Matt Bors, and more.

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Progressive Picks

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The voices of resistance are heard and amplified by one another, the calendar reminds us.

War & Peace

This 2019 Peace Calendar Reminds Us That We Are Not Alone

The voices of resistance are heard and amplified by one another, the calendar reminds us.

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

Book

2019 Peace Calendar

War & Peace

House GOP Is Abdicating Its Duty by Blocking Yemen Resolution

by: Amy Goodman &; Nermeen Shaikh,; Democracy Now!

Israel Targets TV Station and Homes in Deadly Gaza Airstrikes

Israel Targets TV Station and Homes in Deadly Gaza Airstrikes

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

The voices of resistance are heard and amplified by one another, the calendar reminds us.

This 2019 Peace Calendar Reminds Us That We Are Not Alone

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

Smoke billows following Israeli airstrikes targeting Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt, on November 12, 2018. "Israel is once again looking to instigate a war on Gaza," Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, wrote on Twitter.

Israel Denounced for Attack After Late-Night Raid Kills Seven Palestinians

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Prison & Policing

Remembering Jemel Roberson, the Chicago Security Guard Slain by Police

by: Amy Goodman &; Nermeen Shaikh,; Democracy Now!

Why “Countering Violent Extremism” Programs Won’t Stop White Supremacists

by: Fatema Ahmad,; American Friends Service Committee

The Midterms Did Not Stop the March of Fascism, But We Can

by: Kelly Hayes &; Maya Schenwar,; Truthout

In Pennsylvania alone, 2,723 people who entered prison between the ages of 18 and 25 are sentenced to die in prison.

Should Your Birthday Determine Whether You Are Sentenced to Die in Prison?

by: Victoria Law,; 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

Books and DVDs that we find thought-provoking and insightful.

The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos listens as President Donald J. Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Thursday, Aug 16, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Betsy DeVos Faces Another Lawsuit Over For-Profit College Loans

by: s.e. smith,; Care2

There are more than four infants and toddlers in need of care for every one spot in a licensed center.

Forty-Two Percent of Children Under 5 Live in a Child Care “Desert”

by: Jackie Mader,; The Hechinger Report

Jaclyn Corin, a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and one of the founders of the Never Again MSD movement, speaks at a March for Our Lives rally on August 12, 2018, in Newtown, Connecticut.

Students Across the Country Will Walk Out of School to Vote

by: Andrea Germanos,; Common Dreams

How to Make College More Affordable

by: Sydney Worth,; YES! Magazine

Culture & Media

Facebook Is Pushing Anti-Semitic, Anti-Black Narratives

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Tracy Arm Fjord, Alaska.

How the Loss of Native American Languages Affects Our Understanding of Nature

by: Rosalyn R. LaPier,; The Conversation

At left, A bomb disposal technician carries a package out of a U.S. Post Office facility at 52nd Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan, October 26, 2018 in New York City.

Mail-Bomber “False Flag” Theories Overwhelm Right-Wing Discourse

by: David Neiwert,; Southern Poverty Law Center

The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel, the newly released final volume of a trilogy by Jules Feiffer, opens up the world of the Hollywood Blacklist.

“The Ghost Script” Explores the Inside Story of Hollywood’s Blacklist

by: Paul Buhle,; Truthout