Truthout

May 20, 2019

A woman walks through smog wearing a gown made from a fabric of human suffering

News Environment & Health

Exposing the Dirty Business Behind the Designer Label

Fashion is the world's second-most polluting industry after the oil industry.

by Michelle Chen, Truthout

May 20, 2019

The “Tribute in Light” memorial lights up lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 11, 2018, in New York City.

Op-Ed Education & Youth

How Do We Teach 9/11 to Those Who Don’t Remember It?

The logic of "never forget" demands we overlook what followed 9/11: Islamophobia and expanded executive authority.

by Nazia Kazi, Truthout

May 20, 2019

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News Immigration

Asylum Seekers Are Being “Disappeared” in Private Louisiana Jails

Migrants are increasingly hard to track down amid a tangled web of private contractors and misinformation.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

May 20, 2019

Annual March For Life Protests 1973 Roe v. Wade Ruling In Washington

Interview Reproductive Rights

The “Auntie Network” Already Exists

Abortion funds provide an organizing framework for the current crisis.

by Kelly Hayes, Truthout

A woman walks through smog wearing a gown made from a fabric of human suffering — Exposing the Dirty Business Behind the Designer Label

The 'Tribute in Light' memorial lights up lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 11, 2018, in New York City. — How Do We Teach 9/11 to Those Who Don’t Remember It?

Asylum Seekers Are Being “Disappeared” in Private Louisiana Jails

Pro-choice activists shout slogans before the annual March for Life passes by the U.S. Supreme Court January 22, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Anti-choice activists gathered in the nation's capital to mark the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. — The “Auntie Network” Already Exists

Featured

A compassionate and shame-free approach could help encourage omnivores who are maybe not on board the vegan train to reduce their meat consumption.

How to Shift to a More Plant-Based Diet, Without the Guilt

by: Leslie Crawford,; Truthout

Pro-Nicolás Maduro supporters and activists occupying the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C., wave from a window on May 15, 2019.

US Illegally Evicts Protectors From Venezuelan Embassy

by: Marjorie Cohn,; Truthout

Sun shining through red leaves

Springtime in the New Normal of Climate Disruption

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Will Democratic Party Elites Dictate Its Primaries Again?

by: Barbara G. Ellis,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

President Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2019.

Are We in a Constitutional Crisis?

by: Victoria Bassetti,; Brennan Center for Justice

The outer facade of the Supreme Court building

Rebranding Corruption Benefits Shady Politicians on Both Sides of the Aisle

by: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy,; Brennan Center for Justice

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp walks out of a room after reading the report on the FBI investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on October 4, 2018. Heitkemp along with Sen. Joe Donnelly recently announced the launch of the One Country Project to bring rural voters back to the Democratic Party, but the nonprofit has anti-Medicare for All ties.

Rural Voter Project Is Tied to Medicare for All Opponents

by: Andrew Perez,; MapLight

U.S. Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin testifies at a Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee hearing on the proposed budget estimates and justification for FY2020 for the Treasury Department at the U.S. Capitol on May 15, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Progressives Demand Mnuchin Be Held in Contempt for Defying Subpoena

by: Jessica Corbett,; Common Dreams

Exclusives

Even GOP Voters Are Applauding AOC and Sanders for Taking on Lenders

Even GOP Voters Are Applauding AOC and Sanders for Taking on Lenders

A new politics is taking shape around consumer rights that transcends party lines.

by: Sasha Abramsky,; Truthout

Daenerys Targaryen Was Never a Liberator

Daenerys Targaryen Was Never a Liberator

“Game of Thrones” failed its fans, but Dany was never a hero.

by: Kelly Hayes,; Truthout

If Classrooms Are “Free of Politics,” the Right Wing Will Grow

If Classrooms Are “Free of Politics,” the Right Wing Will Grow

In the age of nascent fascism, it is not enough to connect education with the defense of reason.

by: Henry A. Giroux,; Truthout

Environment & Health

Energy giants reportedly invested more than $1 billion in the three years following the Paris Climate agreement to sell lawmakers and the general public on gradual climate policy.

Fossil Fuel Companies Push “Market-Based Solutions” to Climate Change

by: Karl Evers-Hillstrom &; Raymond Arke,; Center for Responsive Politics

A woman walks through smog wearing a gown made from a fabric of human suffering

Exposing the Dirty Business Behind the Designer Label

by: Michelle Chen,; Truthout

An elderly person getting out of a hospital bed and standing with a walker

Victory on Elder Care Equity Sets a Marker for 2020 Debates

by: Sarah Anderson,; Inequality.org

An oil pipeline on the Bolsa Chica Ecological Preserve, in Huntington Beach, California.

Regulators May Reconsider Rules That Incentivize Pipeline Construction

by: Sharon Kelly,; DeSmogBlog

Economy & Labor

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prepares to speak at the National Action Network's annual convention on April 5, 2019, in New York City.

Even GOP Voters Are Applauding AOC and Sanders for Taking on Lenders

by: Sasha Abramsky,; Truthout

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a rally at Howard University, May 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Climate Change Is the Real Job Killer

by: Janine Jackson,; FAIR

Affordable Housing Should Cater to the People, Not Developers

by: Joseph Smooke &; Dyan Ruiz,; [people. power. media]

People raise their fists while displaying red signsPeople raise their fists while displaying red pro-union signs

Hospital Workers in Toledo, Ohio, Strike for Safe Patient Care

by: Roland Reed,; Truthout

Immigration

People hold posters of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and banners as they gather to stage a demonstration in support of those deported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security offices in front of the New York City Hall in New York, United States, on July 30, 2018.

ICE Arrests at New York Courts Have Increased 1,700 Percent

by: s.e. smith,; Care2

Asylum Seekers Are Being “Disappeared” in Private Louisiana Jails

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

A mother and son from Guatemala stand for a portrait at Instituto Madre Asunta shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico on February 15, 2019.

The US Is Making Immigrants Pay for Its Red Tape With Asylum Application Fees

by: Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes,; The Conversation

A Border Patrol guard wearing all black stands surrounded by razor wire

US Border Patrol Is the Most Brutal Militia of All

by: Nick Alexandrov,; Truthout

Racial Justice

an empty jury box.

For Black Americans, “Jury of Your Peers” Is a Hollow Phrase

by: Darlene Harris,; Truthout

Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, speaks onstage at the 2017 ESSENCE Festival at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on June 30, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

On Mother’s Day, Remember the Mothers of Trayvon, Sandra and Tamir

by: Eisa Nefertari Ulen,; Truthout

Movement Grows to Free Black Women From Jail for Mother’s Day

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Ilhan Omar smiles while carrying her daughter

I’m Somali, a US Resident and Muslim, and Ilhan Omar Represents Me

by: Miski Noor,; Truthout

LGBTQ Rights

Transgender youth fight their whole lives for the right to exist. This administration wants to take that away.

All I Want for Mother’s Day Is Equality for My Child

by: Karen Dolan,; OtherWords

A doctor stands with arms crossed as he holds a red stethoscope.

New Trump Rule Permits Anti-LGBTQ Health Care Discrimination

by: Jessica Mason Pieklo,; Rewire.News

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

Prisons & Policing

Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning addresses reporters outside the Albert Bryan U.S federal courthouse with attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen on May 16, 2019, in Alexandria, Virginia.

Judge Orders Manning Jailed, Imposes Daily $500 Fine After 30 Days Behind Bars

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

A police officer views a laptop screen while in his cruiser

Detroit Police Spent Over Half a Million on Cellphone Tracking Technology

by: Camille Fassett,; Shadowproof

Chelsea Manning speaks to the press

Chelsea Manning Is Released, But May Have Just Over a Week of Freedom

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Someone wears a vest reading "LET MY PEOPLE VOTE"

New Suffragists Fight to Gain Ballot for Incarcerated People

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

War & Peace

National Security Advisor John Bolton after answering questions from the media outside the White House on January 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Don’t Give John Bolton His War With Iran

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Yemenis inspect the site of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike, May 16, 2019.

A Business Model From Hell and the War in Yemen

by: Mashal Hashem &; James Allen,; TomDispatch

Donald Trump sits in a chair

British General Says No Evidence of “Increased Threat” From Iran

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Ex-Iranian Ambassador Warns About U.S. Escalation in Iran

Ex-Iranian Ambassador Warns About US Escalation in Iran

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

Series

How Then Shall We Live?

How Then Shall We Live?

Finding our way and peace of heart amidst global collapse.

After the Raid

After the Raid

Exposing the communal trauma of immigration enforcement.

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

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a town hall at the Fort Museum on May 4, 2019, in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Bernie Sanders Unveils a 10-Point Plan to Overhaul Public Education

by: Jessica Corbett,; Common Dreams

The 'Tribute in Light' memorial lights up lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 11, 2018, in New York City.

How Do We Teach 9/11 to Those Who Don’t Remember It?

by: Nazia Kazi,; Truthout

States control who gets federally supported child care assistance and few prioritize parents pursuing education.

Just 13 Percent of Child Care Assistance Goes to Parents in School

by: Lillian Mongeau,; The Hechinger Report

If politics are kept out of the classroom, the right wing will grow

If Classrooms Are “Free of Politics,” the Right Wing Will Grow

by: Henry A. Giroux,; Truthout

Culture & Media

A woman with an ash-streaked face stares onward

Daenerys Targaryen Was Never a Liberator

by: Kelly Hayes,; Truthout

In Avengers: Endgame, we see the price of political failure.

“Avengers: Endgame” Is a Liberal War Cry

by: Nicholas Powers,; Truthout

The "secure" digital channel is a lucrative myth marketed by the tech industry.

Whistleblower’s Arrest Shows Even “Secure” Platforms Are Vulnerable

by: Bill Blunden,; Truthout

Trump Steps Up War on Whistleblowers With Arrest of Veteran

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!