Truthout

March 20, 2019

Trump has signaled his priorities, now it’s up to Congress to intervene on behalf of the people.

News Analysis Economy & Labor

Trump Budget Ends Medicaid Expansion, Axes Affordable Housing Programs

Trump has signaled his priorities, now it's up to Congress to intervene on behalf of the people.

by Lindsay Koshgarian, Truthout

March 20, 2019

Sen. Thom Tillis penned an op-ed announcing his intention to vote against Trump’s emergency declaration weeks before reversing course and voting Trump’s way.

Op-Ed Politics & Elections

Republicans Who Voted Against Trump Are Not “Heroes”

Who will stop Trump? Not the Republicans.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

March 20, 2019

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News Analysis Culture & Media

“Lords of Chaos” Brings a White Nationalist’s Book to the Big Screen

A man whose history in white nationalism and fascist politics traces several decades is at the center of the film.

by Shane Burley, Truthout

March 20, 2019

Some freshman candidates who ran on the issue during the campaign, like Harley Rouda of California, still declined to co-sponsor Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All bill.

News Politics & Elections

Establishment Democrats Are Undermining Medicare for All

The number of co-sponsors is decreasing even though Medicare for All has never been more popular.

by Michael Corcoran, Truthout

Donald Trump waves as he walks across White House lawn. — Trump Budget Ends Medicaid Expansion, Axes Affordable Housing Programs

Sen. Thom Tillis penned an op-ed announcing his intention to vote against Trump's emergency declaration weeks before reversing course and voting Trump's way. — Republicans Who Voted Against Trump Are Not “Heroes”

Rory Culkin in Lords of Chaos (2018) — “Lords of Chaos” Brings a White Nationalist’s Book to the Big Screen

Some freshman candidates who ran on the issue during the campaign, like Harley Rouda of California, still declined to co-sponsor Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All bill. — Establishment Democrats Are Undermining Medicare for All

Featured

National Socialist Movement members rally in Newnan, Georgia

Will Decentralization of Neo-Nazism Spur More Right-Wing Terrorism?

by: Spencer Sunshine,; Truthout

Actress Felicity Huffman inside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse

The Real College Admissions Scandal Is Structural Inequality

by: Dean Baker,; Truthout

Two kittens cuddle in a rusty cage

SUNY Uses Taxpayer Dollars to Torture Kittens in Useless Experiments

by: Stephen Wells,; Truthout

Produce aisle with organic sign

Organic Farms Are Under Attack From Agribusiness, Weakened Standards

by: Elizabeth Henderson,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

Trump’s Ties to Boeing in Spotlight Amid Probes of 737 MAX 8 Jets

Spotlight on Trump’s Ties to Boeing Amid Probes of 737 MAX 8 Jets

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

Former Texas Congressman and Democratic party presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke leans in to hear a comment after speaking to diners at The Pig & Porter restaurant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on March 15, 2019.

Beto O’Rourke Raises $6.1 Million in First 24 Hours of His Campaign

by: Shira Tarlo,; Salon

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) speaks during a New Hampshire organizing event for her 2020 presidential exploratory committee at Manchester Community College on January 12, 2019, in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Elizabeth Warren Says, “Get Rid of the Electoral College”

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Sen. Thom Tillis penned an op-ed announcing his intention to vote against Trump's emergency declaration weeks before reversing course and voting Trump's way.

Republicans Who Voted Against Trump Are Not “Heroes”

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Exclusives

Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

The tribunal's findings could bolster the case against Duterte currently in the International Criminal Court.

by: Marjorie Cohn,; Truthout

Don’t Let Mueller Restore Your Faith in the FBI

Don’t Let Mueller Restore Your Faith in the FBI

Let's not lose perspective on Mueller's role in some of the FBI's most repressive and egregious undertakings.

by: Aaron J. Leonard,; Truthout

A Tribal Camp in South Texas Is Vowing to Resist Trump’s Wall

A Tribal Camp in South Texas Is Vowing to Resist Trump’s Wall

The tribe has vowed to protect sacred sites including a 154-year-old cemetery threatened by the president’s wall.

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

Environment & Health

Mosquito larvae in a natural holding tank. In aquatic and terrestrial environments, researchers have linked changes in metabolism, growth, behavior and reproduction of certain fishes, mollusks and insects with exposure to glyphosate-containing herbicides.

Glyphosate Herbicides Are Altering the Food Chain

by: Lindsey Konkel,; Environmental Health News

1.4 Million Students Walk Out of Class Demanding Climate Action

1.4 Million Students Walk Out of Class Demanding Climate Action

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Experts have recommended how the US can drastically curb the use of throwaway plastics with new federal legislation.

What Laws Work Best to Cut Plastic Pollution?

by: Erica Cirino,; The Revelator

The pollutant is leaching from a coal ash landfill at a power generating station.

“Off the Charts” Arsenic Levels Detected in Western Pennsylvania Groundwater

by: Kristina Marusic,; Environmental Health News

Economy & Labor

Donald Trump waves as he walks across White House lawn.

Trump Budget Ends Medicaid Expansion, Axes Affordable Housing Programs

by: Lindsay Koshgarian,; Truthout

Employers are required to accommodate the needs of pregnant women only in limited circumstances

Pregnant Workers Should Not Be Forced to Endanger Their Babies’ Health

by: Jeannette Cox,; The Conversation

Gentrification of payment

The Gentrification of Payments

by: Brett Scott,; ROAR Magazine

Teachers at The Accelerated Schools, a community of public charter schools in South Los Angeles picket outside the school on second day of the Los Angeles school teachers strike on January 15, 2019, in Los Angeles, California.

Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change

by: Nato Green,; In These Times

Immigration

A group of immigrants and activists protest outside Capitol Hill against the Trump administration's immigration policy in Washington, D.C, on March 6, 2019.

Unions Must Again Fight for Immigrant Amnesty

by: Lucy Herschel,; Socialist Worker

A banner at the Yalui camp at the Eli Jackson Cemetery in San Juan, Texas, on March 1, 2019.

A Tribal Camp in South Texas Is Vowing to Resist Trump’s Wall

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

Activists gather to protest ICE and the Trump administrations immigration and detention policies in Los Angeles, California on July 21, 2018. Protesters demanded the reunification of detained migrant children with their parents and organizers of the Families Belong Together March called to abolish ICE.

Trump to Divert Millions From Health Programs for Migrant Child Detention

by: Julia Conley,; Common Dreams

Wilson and his wife were raising a blended family of four when he got the call that his 17-year-old daughter, Yensi, had crossed the border into the United States.

ICE’s Human Smuggling Initiative Targeted Parents and Children

by: Laura C. Morel &; Patrick Michels,; The Center for Investigative Reporting

Prisons & Policing

FBI Agents James Comey, Andrew McCabe and Robert Mueller

Don’t Let Mueller Restore Your Faith in the FBI

by: Aaron J. Leonard,; Truthout

Prison hallway.

We Won’t Let Our Pensions Build Prisons

by: Michelle Sapere,; Socialist Worker

Mass Incarceration and the Radical Possibilities of Restorative Justice

To Reduce Prison Population, We Must Confront Violence in Radically New Ways

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

Officer stands in front of fence surrounding prison building

California Moratorium Impacts a Quarter of People on Death Row in US

by: Julia Conley,; Common Dreams

LGBTQ Rights

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

An Antiwar Response to Trump’s Anti-Trans Military Ban Is Possible

by: Matthew Byrne,; Truthout

War & Peace

David Petraeus, retired U.S. Army General and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, speaks at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, October 23, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

The US’s Senior Generals Find No Exits From Endless War

by: William J. Astore,; TomDispatch

Man stands amid the rubble from airstrike in Yemen.

Senate Passes War Powers Resolution to End Complicity in Yemen War

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Women peacemakers march in Paju, South Korea, after crossing the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on May 24, 2015, for the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament.

Women Must Be Central to Negotiating the US-Korea Peace Process

by: Christine Ahn,; Truthout

Unlike school shootings, drone strikes killing civilians in distant lands rarely make the news here, much less the top headlines.

School Shooters and Drones — Linking Gun Violence at Home to US Wars Abroad

by: Allegra Harpootlian,; TomDispatch

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.

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Progressive Picks

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

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The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

Admissions Scandal Goes Beyond Arrestees — It Indicts Entire System

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

One School’s Financial Calamity Exposes a Crisis in Higher Education

One School’s Financial Calamity Exposes a Crisis in Higher Education

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

Activists Are Pushing to Remove Donor Influence From College Campuses

by: Eleanor J. Bader,; Truthout

Many top colleges and universities in the U.S. receive millions of dollars from foreign governments.

Universities on the Foreign Payroll

by: Lydia Dennett,; Project On Government Oversight

Culture & Media

Rory Culkin in Lords of Chaos (2018)

“Lords of Chaos” Brings a White Nationalist’s Book to the Big Screen

by: Shane Burley,; Truthout

People lay flowers and notes to pay tribute at streets close to the Masjid Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Mosque, shooting area, in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 16, 2019.

NPR Source Can’t Recall People Ever Being Murdered in a Mosque Before

by: Jim Naureckas,; FAIR

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers speech at tech fair

Can Facebook Reinvent Itself?

by: Kelly Hayes,; Truthout

A video camera stands outside the Reichstag, the meeting place of the Germany Parliament. An infamous fire in February 1933 was used as a pretext by the Nazis for mass arrests of communists and increased police repression.

The Role of Media in Democracy: An Interview With Gary Younge

by: Vaios Triantafyllou,; Truthout