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January 19, 2019

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Op-Ed Education & Youth

What’s Next for Public Education in 2019

We have the power to reverse the trend toward neoliberal education reform that predates Trump and DeVos.

by Sabrina Joy Stevens, Truthout

January 19, 2019

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Op-Ed Culture & Media

Those Nazi Rallies Are Not for the Left. They’re for Centrist Journalists.

Media must be careful not to fall for the tactics of far-right messaging.

by Renea Baek Goddard, Truthout

January 19, 2019

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News Analysis Human Rights

No End in Sight: The Perils of Trump’s Guantánamo

Guantánamo may very well remain open indefinitely no matter how many legal challenges are brought against it.

by Maha Hilal, Truthout

January 19, 2019

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Op-Ed War & Peace

To Stop Bolton’s Fire and Fury, Fire Bolton

John Bolton threatens to bring on another endless war.

by Jon Rainwater, Truthout

What’s Next for Public Education in 2019

As more and more white supremacists try to rebrand themselves, journalists have a responsibility to be vigilant. — Those Nazi Rallies Are Not for the Left. They’re for Centrist Journalists.

Demonstrators gather in Chicago, Illinois, on January 11, 2012, to protest the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay — No End in Sight: The Perils of Trump’s Guantánamo

National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks during a news briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, November 27, 2018, in Washington, DC. — To Stop Bolton’s Fire and Fury, Fire Bolton

Featured

Attorney general nominee William Barr testifies at his confirmation hearing as his image is shown on a television monitor behind him January 15, 2019, in Washington, DC.

William Barr Is a Trojan Horse

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) talks to fellow members of Congress during the first session of the 116th Congress at the US Capitol January 3, 2019, in Washington, DC.

Ocasio-Cortez Is on the Financial Committee, and Banks Are Afraid

by: Shilpa Jindia,; Truthout

Mahasin Mohamed, a furloughed contract worker who works at the Smithsonian and has not been paid during the partial government shutdown, holds an unpaid electric bill to present to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 16, 2019.

Outsourced and Forgotten: No Relief for Federal Contract Workers

by: Anastasia Christman,; Truthout

The Trump administration views children not as the promise of a future, but as a threat to the present.Giroux

Born Disposable: Trump’s War on Youth

by: Henry A. Giroux,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

An EPA employee holds a sign during a protest rally by government workers and concerned citizens against the government shutdown on Friday, January 11, 2019, at Post Office Square near the Federal building in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Shutdown Will Harm the Health and Safety of Americans, Even After It’s Ended

by: Morten Wendelbo,; The Conversation

L.A. Kauffman hands out copies of the unauthorized Washington Post outside the White House.

Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom

by: Sarah Freeman-Woolpert,; Waging Nonviolence

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen listens in the Rose Garden of the White House on January 4, 2019, in Washington, DC.

Calls for FBI Probe of Homeland Secretary Follow Child Detention Memo Leak

by: Jessica Corbett,; Common Dreams

Here’s what you need to know about primary changes and how they might influence the shape of the election.

What You Need to Know About the 2020 Democratic Primary Changes

by: s.e. smith,; Care2

LGBTQ Rights

A US flag and a pride rainbow flag overlap in the crowd during a marriage equality rally in West Hollywood, California, celebrating the Supreme Court's ruling on June 26, 2015.

Will the Supreme Court Keep LGBTQ Workers From Being Fired?

by: Jessica Mason Pieklo,; Rewire.News

Eight LGBTQ-Led Social Justice Struggles the Corporate Media Missed in 2018

by: Toshio Meronek,; Truthout

Progressive parents and educators are fighting to make sex ed inclusive, informative and relevant.

Sex Ed Programs Face Anti-LGBTQ Backlash

by: Eleanor J. Bader,; Truthout

"Events like QueerBomb are hugely important because of the ways in which they try to take inspiration from the radical queer past and for the ways in which they try to shed light on the organizations that are trying to extend the legacies of that past."

The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

Exclusives

Rebuke of Trump’s Census Plan Gives Immigration Activists Hope

Rebuke of Trump’s Census Plan Gives Immigration Activists Hope

Trump's insidious attempt to use the census to isolate immigrants has faced a setback in federal court.

by: Marisa Franco,; Truthout

William Barr Is a Danger to Civil Rights

William Barr Is a Danger to Civil Rights

Barr is willing to jail journalists if he believes "they're putting out stuff that would hurt the country.”

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Congress Considers Bill to Defend Freedom of People With Disabilities

Congress Considers Bill to Defend Freedom of People With Disabilities

Many with disabilities are forced into institutions instead of receiving essential services at home.

by: Jen Deerinwater,; Truthout

Environment & Health

In Puerto Rico, Medicaid patients get no coverage for drugs that can cure hepatitis C.

Medicaid Patients in Puerto Rico Don’t Get Coverage for Drugs to Cure Hepatitis

by: Carmen Heredia Rodriguez,; Kaiser Health News

Activists Decry Trump’s EPA Pick, Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler

Activists Decry Trump’s EPA Pick, Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Grief is a way to honor what we are losing.

In Facing Mass Extinction, We Must Allow Ourselves to Grieve

by: Dahr Jamail,; The New Press

Aerial view of Louisiana’s shrinking Isle de Jean Charles.

Tribe Turns Down Funds to Relocate as Louisiana Buys Land Anyway

by: Julie Dermansky,; DeSmogBlog

Economy & Labor

Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Goes Down in Historic Defeat

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Los Angeles Teachers Strike Against Privatization and Underfunding

Los Angeles Teachers Strike Against Privatization and Underfunding

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

People’s Action members affected by the housing crisis traveled to Washington from New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to meet with lawmakers in December.

It’s Time for a Homes Guarantee

by: Tara Raghuveer,; Campaign for America's Future

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee Rita Silva-Martins holds her dog, Mochi, in Natick, Massachusetts, on January 10, 2019. Because federal funding for the TSA lapsed on December 22, her paycheck is in danger. Unless a deal is brokered soon to reopen the government, her finances are on a collision course with President Trump's fight for $5 billion to build a wall on the southern border.

Shutdown Is Another Reason US Poor Can’t Bank on a Safety Net

by: Jamila Michener,; The Conversation

Art & Cartoons

Humpty Trumpty Sat on a Wall

by: Khalil Bendib,; OtherWords

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Grief is a way to honor what we are losing.

Environment & Health

In Facing Mass Extinction, We Must Allow Ourselves to Grieve

"Grief is a way to honor what we are losing," writes Dahr Jamail.

by: Dahr Jamail,; The New Press

Book

The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

From award-winning Truthout staff reporter Dahr Jamail, The End of Ice is “assiduously researched, profoundly affecting, and filled with vivid evocations of the natural world." (Kirkus Reviews)

War & Peace

US Troops Are a “Sitting Target” in Syria — It’s Time to Bring Them Home

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks during a news briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, November 27, 2018, in Washington, DC.

To Stop Bolton’s Fire and Fury, Fire Bolton

by: Jon Rainwater,; Truthout

The ruins of Nagasaki, Japan, after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August 1945.

Ground Zero Nagasaki: Living the Nuclear Past — and Future

by: Susan Southard,; TomDispatch

Off-the-books bases, such as the one at al-Tanf in Syria near the border with Iraq and Jordan, remain hidden for a reason. The Pentagon doesn’t want to talk about them.

Bases, Bases, Everywhere — Except in the Pentagon’s Report

by: Nick Turse,; TomDispatch

Prison & Policing

Demonstrators march after hearing the verdict in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke along Michigan Avenue on October 5, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on October 20, 2014.

Judge Acquits Cops in Laquan McDonald Cover-Up Trial

by: Flint Taylor,; Truthout

William Barr Is a Danger to Civil Rights

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Florida Pardons Men Falsely Accused in Jim Crow-Era Rape Case in 1949

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

William Barr, nominee to be attorney general, meets with Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley on Wednesday, January 9, 2018.

AG Nominee William Barr Endorsed “More Incarceration”

by: Mike Ludwig,; 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

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The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

What’s Next for Public Education in 2019

by: Sabrina Joy Stevens,; Truthout

As many as half of America’s college students face campus hunger.

More Solutions Needed for Campus Hunger

by: Suzanna Martinez,; The Conversation

As student debt grows, grassroots organizations keep pushing for sweeping change on a national level.

How Activists Are Moving the Dial on Student Loan Debt

by: Siona Peterous,; Inequality.org

Culture & Media

As more and more white supremacists try to rebrand themselves, journalists have a responsibility to be vigilant.

Those Nazi Rallies Are Not for the Left. They’re for Centrist Journalists.

by: Renea Baek Goddard,; Truthout

A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in a dense crowd at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center during the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 10, 2019.

Tech Companies Urged Not to Sell Facial Recognition to Governments

by: Jessica Corbett,; Common Dreams

Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered in Union Square on April 6, 2018, to show solidarity with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. An unconstitutional bill, called the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, is being considered by Congress and would criminalize such organizing and calls for boycotts.

People Are Mobilizing Against the Crackdown on Dissent

by: Janine Jackson,; FAIR

Members of American Legion Post 416 watch President Trump speak on January 8, 2019, in Encinitas, California.

Life in the United States of Trump: Confronting “Alternative Facts”

by: Rebecca Gordon,; TomDispatch