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September 22, 2018

Politics & Elections

Native Vote Could Determine Outcome of Senate Race in Montana

One of the country’s most-watched Senate races could be determined by Montana’s Native voters.

by Alexis Bonogofsky, Truthout

September 22, 2018

New Senate Bill Would Allow Indefinite Detention of Migrant Families

Republicans are searching for a legislative "solution" to the family separation crisis created by Trump.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

September 22, 2018

New Legislation Gives Access to Medication Abortion at Public Colleges

The Student Right to Access Act fixes a serious gap in on-campus reproductive health care.

by Katie Klabusich, Truthout

September 22, 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

Native Vote Could Determine Outcome of Senate Race in Montana

New Senate Bill Would Allow Indefinite Detention of Migrant Families

New Legislation Gives Access to Medication Abortion at Public Colleges

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

Featured

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

Prisoner with head in hands

Private Prison Officials Allowed to Force-Feed Immigrant Hunger Strikers

by: Mike Ludwig

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

by: William Rivers Pitt

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

Politics & Elections

Michael Moore: Democrats’ Fatal Mistake Was Not Taking Trump Seriously

by: Amy Goodman

New US Sexual Misconduct Rules Are Designed to Deter Survivors From Reporting

by: Janine Jackson

Native Vote Could Determine Outcome of Senate Race in Montana

by: Alexis Bonogofsky

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

Human Rights

New Senate Bill Would Allow Indefinite Detention of Migrant Families

by: Mike Ludwig

New Legislation Gives Access to Medication Abortion at Public Colleges

by: Katie Klabusich

Two Women From Mental Health Facility Drown in Flood During Transport

Two Women From Mental Health Facility Drown in Flood During Transport

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

Exclusives

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

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

A campaign is already underway to malign Jean's character in order to shield a fellow officer.

by: Candice Bernd

Hurricane Florence Unleashes Coal Ash, Sending Toxic Warning to EPA

Hurricane Florence Unleashes Coal Ash, Sending Toxic Warning to EPA

Trump's EPA has been busy weakening waste storage rules for the coal industry.

by: Mike Ludwig

Florence: A Preview of Our Climate Future

Florence: A Preview of Our Climate Future

Hurricane Florence is not an aberration but a taste of storms to come in a climate-disrupted world.

by: Dahr Jamail

Environment & Health

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

How Forbes Global 2000 Companies Are Undermining Climate Policy

by: Chloe Farand

Like Hurricane Florence, Climate Policy Has Dangerously Stalled

by: Robert Walker

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

Economy & Labor

Puerto Rico Has Not Recovered From Hurricane Maria

by: Lauren Lluveras

Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk

by: Ellen Brown

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

Art & Cartoons

Mueller Makes ‘Em Sing

by: Khalil Bendib

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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

Bernie Sanders to Pompeo: Yemeni Lives Are Worth More Than Contractor Profits

by: Jake Johnson

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

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

Prison bars and razor wire

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

by: Heather Ann Thompson

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

Kevin Cooper

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

by: Danny Katch; Jen Roesch; Eric Ruder

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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

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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

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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

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

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Hurricane Florence Delivers a Stark Antiwar Message

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Hurricane Florence Delivers a Stark Antiwar Message

by: Nick Mottern, BuzzFlash

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Office Is Getting Rape Threats

by: Sophie Weiner, Splinter News

Trump Attacks Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Amid Talks for Hearing

by: Brian Naylor and Deirdre Walsh, NPR

The GOP's Growing Identity Crisis

by: Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, Axios