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May 21, 2019

Rep. Barbara Lee is at the forefront of efforts in Congress to sunset the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

News War & Peace

As Iran Tensions Rise, Congress Moves to Curb Trump’s War Powers

The House Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday to sunset the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

May 21, 2019

Donald Trump

Op-Ed Politics & Elections

Deutsche Bank Has Rolled on Donald Trump

The old rule still applies: Always follow the money.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

May 21, 2019

With Bolton, Netanyahu and the Saudis driving his Iran policy, Trump has few sensible options.

Op-Ed War & Peace

Trump’s “Genocidal” Tweets Against Iran Come With a Price

With Bolton, Netanyahu and the Saudis driving his Iran policy, Trump has few sensible options.

by Trita Parsi, Truthout

May 21, 2019

Protesters backs are seen as they march for voting rights

Op-Ed Reproductive Rights

Racist Voter Suppression Made Alabama’s Abortion Ban Possible

It doesn’t matter if a majority of us support the right to an abortion if we cannot exercise our political power.

by Sabrina Joy Stevens, Truthout

Rep. Barbara Lee is at the forefront of efforts in Congress to sunset the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. — As Iran Tensions Rise, Congress Moves to Curb Trump’s War Powers

Donald Trump — Deutsche Bank Has Rolled on Donald Trump

With Bolton, Netanyahu and the Saudis driving his Iran policy, Trump has few sensible options. — Trump’s “Genocidal” Tweets Against Iran Come With a Price

Protesters backs are seen as they march for voting rights — Racist Voter Suppression Made Alabama’s Abortion Ban Possible

Featured

A man holds his head while watching stock prices on a lit screen

Trump’s Trade War With China Is Waged to Make the Rich Richer

by: Dean Baker,; Truthout

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

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

by: Michelle Chen,; Truthout

Muslim protesters display signs in front of a large orange statue

Head of Program Profiling Muslims in Chicago Steps Down Amid Pressure

by: Muhammad Sankari &; Mary Zerkel,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi answers questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 9, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Pelosi’s Own Leadership Team Demands Trump Impeachment Proceedings

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Iranian women stand in front of an anti-U.S. mural outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 2004. In 1953, the CIA overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh, the elected prime minister of Iran.

Russians Have Meddled in 36 Elections. The US Has Meddled in 81.

by: Tom Engelhardt,; TomDispatch

Donald Trump

Deutsche Bank Has Rolled on Donald Trump

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Sen. Ron Wyden speaks

Sen. Ron Wyden Leads on Securing Elections Before 2020

by: Camille Fischer,; Electronic Frontier Foundation

Exclusives

Asylum Seekers Are Being “Disappeared” in Private Louisiana Jails

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

Will Democratic Party Elites Dictate Its Primaries Again?

Will Democratic Party Elites Dictate Its Primaries Again?

The Democratic elite will fight any real threat to their status quo, as they did in the 2016 primaries and caucuses.

by: Barbara G. Ellis,; Truthout

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

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

Bestselling author Kathy Freston offers a no-guilt, shame-free approach to a more compassionate diet.

by: Leslie Crawford,; Truthout

Environment & Health

A lit display case showcases several containers of Monsanto's RoundUp

Monsanto’s Next Legal Battle Over Roundup Is in Its Hometown

by: Carey Gillam,; Environmental Health News

How Poor Oversight and Fraud in Generic Drug Industry Threatens Patients’ Health

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Smokestacks release smog into the air while surrounded by plastic garbage

Plastics Industry on Track to Burn 14 Percent of World’s Remaining Carbon Budget

by: Sharon Kelly,; DeSmogBlog

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

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

How Trump Immigration Policies Led to Child Deaths at Border

How Trump’s Immigration Policies Led to Child Deaths at Border

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

An asylum seeker holds her 1-year-old son as they stand outside their tent at a makeshift camp housing mainly families, at Porte d'Aubervilliers in Paris, France, on April 9, 2019.

Europeans Criminalized for Helping Migrants as Far Right Aims to Win Elections

by: Claire Provost,; Claudia Torrisi,; Nandini Archer,; Alexander Nabert &; Belen Lobos,; openDemocracy

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

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

With Bolton, Netanyahu and the Saudis driving his Iran policy, Trump has few sensible options.

Trump’s “Genocidal” Tweets Against Iran Come With a Price

by: Trita Parsi,; Truthout

Rep. Barbara Lee is at the forefront of efforts in Congress to sunset the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

As Iran Tensions Rise, Congress Moves to Curb Trump’s War Powers

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Donald trump yells into multiple microphones held to his face

Trump — Who Claims He Doesn’t Want War — Threatens “Official End of Iran”

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

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

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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 large recreation of a whale hangs over tables seated with people at a gala

People With a Lot of Money Are Determining What Culture Is

by: Janine Jackson,; FAIR

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