Truthout

November 18, 2019

Donald Trump looks downward while standing at a podium

News Analysis Politics & Elections

Pressure Mounts Against Trump as 8 New Witnesses Prepare to Testify

Any mistakes Trump now makes, on Twitter or elsewhere, will likely erode his support within the GOP even more.

by Alexis Goldstein, Truthout

November 18, 2019

A young woman with a face mask on stands in front of an extremely smoggy city

Interview Environment & Health

Humans Aren’t Inherently Destroying the Planet — Capitalism Is

A new book dubs our current geological era the “Capitalocene.”

by Robert R. Raymond, Truthout

November 18, 2019

A man in a business suit counts out a fan of hundred dollar bills in his hands

Op-Ed Economy & Labor

Even With a Wealth Tax, Economic Policy Ensures Billionaires Will Exist

Within our current system, we can't limit the voices of the super-rich -- but we can amplify the voices of the non-rich.

by Dean Baker, Truthout

November 18, 2019

Former U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch Testifies At Impeachment Hearing

Op-Ed Politics & Elections

Trump Engaged in Witness Tampering During Ambassador’s Testimony

Trump tweeted intimidating allegations, which could provide the basis for an article of impeachment.

by Marjorie Cohn, Truthout

Donald Trump looks downward while standing at a podium — Pressure Mounts Against Trump as 8 New Witnesses Prepare to Testify

A young woman with a face mask on stands in front of an extremely smoggy city — Humans Aren’t Inherently Destroying the Planet — Capitalism Is

A man in a business suit counts out a fan of hundred dollar bills in his hands — Even With a Wealth Tax, Economic Policy Ensures Billionaires Will Exist

A tweet from Donald Trump created while former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's testifies before the House Intelligence Committee is shown in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 15, 2019, in Washington, D.C. — Trump Engaged in Witness Tampering During Ambassador’s Testimony

Featured

Billionaires like Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Mark Zuckerberg are scaremongering about market crashes because they don’t like what they see in the presidential primary.

Billionaires Are Panicking Over the Growing Popularity of a Wealth Tax

by: Alexis Goldstein,; Truthout

Participants in a demonstration against the Turkish army's invasion of Syria carry a long cloth ribbon with the colors of the Kurdish flag in Stuttgart, November 2, 2019.

International Solidarity With the Kurds Energizes Revolution on the Ground

by: Shane Burley,; Truthout

The first solar farm in North Dakota went up this year — the Cannon Ball Community Solar Farm on the Standing Rock Reservation.

Amid Blackout, a California Tribal Village Kept Lights On With Solar Energy

by: Winona LaDuke,; Truthout

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives on Capitol Hill to appear before lawmakers in closed-door questioning for the House Intelligence Committee, relating to the impeachment inquiry concerning President Donald Trump, in Washington, D.C., on Friday, October 11, 2019.

Ambassador Yovanovitch, Once a Trump Target, Is Now His Nightmare

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

Anti-Indigenous Violence Escalates as Mass Protests Denounce Coup in Bolivia

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

William Barr

Barr’s Fascist Manifesto Shows GOP Is Evolving to New Level of Authoritarianism

by: Heather Digby Parton,; Salon

Donald Trump looks downward while standing at a podium

Pressure Mounts Against Trump as 8 New Witnesses Prepare to Testify

by: Alexis Goldstein,; Truthout

A crowd of protesters march in the street demanding the removal of president Donald Trump from office

More Than Half of Americans Want Trump Impeached and Removed

by: Emily Singer,; The American Independent

Exclusives

Militias in Bolivia Are Burning the Indigenous Flag in Public Plazas

Militias in Bolivia Are Burning the Indigenous Flag in Public Plazas

The coup is a product of patriarchy, capitalism and racism, says feminist and Indigenous activist Adriana Guzmán.

by: Claudia Korol,; Truthout

Trump Met With Turkey’s Dictator to Distract From Impeachment

Trump Met With Turkey’s Dictator to Distract From Impeachment

President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed on little besides each other.

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Taylor Testimony Nailed the Door Shut on GOP Claims of Trump’s Noninvolvement

Taylor Testimony Nailed the Door Shut on GOP Claims of Trump’s Noninvolvement

The only good news for Trump on Wednesday? The sun went down. The bad news? It’s coming right back up.

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Environment & Health

A young woman with a face mask on stands in front of an extremely smoggy city

Humans Aren’t Inherently Destroying the Planet — Capitalism Is

by: Robert R. Raymond,; Truthout

Pope Francis leads the weekly General Audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, October 30, 2019.

Pope Francis Proposes Adding “Ecological Sin” to Church Teachings

by: Jon Queally,; Common Dreams

Experts are increasingly worried cap and trade is allowing California's biggest polluters to conduct business as usual.

Oil and Gas Emissions Have Increased Under California’s Cap and Trade Program

by: Lisa Song,; ProPublica

Toyota and GM Sided With Trump’s Clean Car Rollbacks to Preserve Profits

by: Dana Drugmand,; DeSmogBlog

Economy & Labor

A man in a business suit counts out a fan of hundred dollar bills in his hands

Even With a Wealth Tax, Economic Policy Ensures Billionaires Will Exist

by: Dean Baker,; Truthout

Fast food workers and activists demonstrate outside the McDonald's corporate campus on May 21, 2014, in Oak Brook, Illinois.

McDonald’s Workers in Detroit Are on Strike for Workplace Democracy

by: Eli Day,; In These Times

Workers with the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance have been organizing for the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights for more than a year. Last week, the bill was unanimously approved by Philadelphia City Council.

Philadelphia Domestic Workers Win a New Bill of Rights

by: Cynthia Drayton,; Inequality.org

The Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act hopes to give firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales.

Sanders, Lee and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps

by: Sarah Anderson,; Inequality.org

Immigration

A mother sits with her infant on her lap

Proposed Asylum Fees Would Have Immigrants Paying for Red Tape

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

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office agent walks past a Border Patrol vehicle

Booming Border Budgets Fund Human Rights Abuses and a Destructive Border Wall

by: Vicki B. Gaubeca,; Todd Miller &; Dan Millis,; Truthout

A young girl sits on the sidewalk during a protest while holding sign depicting red, white and blue lengths of barbed wire

DACA Arguments in Supreme Court Leave Outcome in Doubt

by: Marjorie Cohn,; Truthout

A woman with green hair and sunglasses holds a sign that reads "NEVER AGAIN IS NOW" during a protest

Trump Administration Detained Record-Breaking 70,000 Children in 2019

by: Eoin Higgins,; Common Dreams

Racial Justice

a wildfire lights the horizon where an imperiled house also stands

When Disaster Strikes, Indigenous Communities Receive Unequal Recovery Aid

by: Allison Herrera,; High Country News

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Shaquille O'Neal and Papa John's CEO Steve Ritchie attend Shaq's Papa John's Pizza Grand Opening on August 24, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Papa John’s Charm Offensive — the Answer to Racism Isn’t More Pizza

by: Ronnie Galvin,; Truthout

A woman holds a checkered Bolivian Indigenous flag during a massive street protest

Militias in Bolivia Are Burning the Indigenous Flag in Public Plazas

by: Claudia Korol,; Truthout

Remembering the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

LGBTQ Rights

Demonstrators rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, October 8, 2019, as the Court holds oral arguments in three cases dealing with workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Supreme Court Cases on LGBT Discrimination Reflect Wider Assault on Civil Rights

by: Janine Jackson,; FAIR

People walk beneath a large stretched out rainbow flag

Uganda Official Threatens to Try to Resurrect Death Penalty for Homosexuality

by: Sophie Neiman,; The Indypendent

Pidgeon Pagonis speaks during a protest against genital surgeries on intersex kids outside of Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago on July 19, 2018. Nonconsensual intersex surgeries have been condemned by Human Rights Watch, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture.

Intersex Activists Are Closer Than Ever to Banning Nonconsensual Surgery

by: Amy Littlefield,; Truthout

Protesters rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as arguments are heard in a set of cases concerning the rights of transgender and LGBQ people in the workforce on October 8, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Anti-Trans Lawyers Were Grasping at Straws Before the Supreme Court

by: Gabriel Arkles,; Truthout

Prisons & Policing

With His Execution Blocked, Rodney Reed Has a Chance to Prove Innocence

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

The most vulnerable people have the most at stake in questions of policing, but their voices are silenced in data.

Policing Statistics Silence the Most Vulnerable People

by: F.T. Green,; Truthout

Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks into a microphone

Ayanna Pressley Unveils Plan to Incentivize Reductions in Prison Population

by: Kira Lerner,; The Appeal

The sky glows behind spools of barbed wire atop a prison fence

As the Industry Declines, Private Prisons Form Advocacy Group

by: Sue Sturgis,; Facing South

War & Peace

soldiers load artillery into a missie launcher

50 Years of US Arms Sales Have Had Severe and Lasting Impact on Middle East

by: William D. Hartung,; TomDispatch

Airmen test the water pressure of a hose during joint live-fire training at Kadena Air Base, Japan, August 7, 2018. PFAS chemicals have been used for fighting petroleum fires primarily at military and civilian airfields in Okinawa.

The US Military Is Poisoning Okinawa

by: Pat Elder,; World BEYOND War

Donald Trump gestures at Tayyip Erdogan as they both stand at podiums

Trump Met With Turkey’s Dictator to Distract From Impeachment

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Sen. Joe Biden speaks during an interview in his office about the possibility of war with Iraq on February 5, 2003.

Biden’s Support of Iraq War Shows How He Would Run the White House

by: Stephen Zunes,; Truthout

Series

Covering Climate Now

Truthout is proud to join with more than 200 other news outlets for Covering Climate Now, a project geared toward deepening media coverage of the climate crisis.

Voting Wrongs

Voting Wrongs

We expose the injustices that deny the vote to millions — and cover the fight for true enfranchisement.

Climate Disruption Dispatches

Climate Disruption Dispatches

Each month, we chronicle the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

How Then Shall We Live?

How Then Shall We Live?

Finding our way and peace of heart amidst global collapse.

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Marjorie Cohn analyzes human rights and executive branch lawbreaking.

The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

Apple, books and blackboard behind barbed wire

“Juvenile Justice” Schools Harm Native American Youth

by: Max Marchitello &; Diana Cournoyer,; The Hechinger Report

Chicago Teachers Celebrate End of Historic Strike After 11 Days

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

A child dips their fingers into small pots of paint

More Educators Are Fighting to Bring Arts Education Back Into Schools

by: Eleanor J. Bader,; Truthout

Betsy DeVos stands in front of a microphone

Betsy DeVos Held in Contempt of Court for Predatory Loan-Collecting Practices

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Culture & Media

President Trump talks to reporters before he departs the White House

Trump’s Classic Corporate Media Misdirection Has Only Strengthened His Base

by: Mickey Huff &; Nolan Higdon,; City Lights Books

For the sake of the nation, public television should not only broadcast the hearings live but repeat them in primetime.

A Message to PBS: Televise the Trump Impeachment Hearings for All to See

by: Michael Winship &; Bill Moyers,; Common Dreams

Trevor Loudon speaks at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

The Right-Wing Smear Artist Behind the Web’s Biggest Blacklist

by: Sam Bishop,; Truthout

El Campo De Cebada, Madrid hosts a play on a stage build by architecture collectives. The space was built by architecture collectives in a vacant lot in Madrid’s La Latina neighborhood.

Modern Cities Breed Alienation. Insurgent Urbanists Are Pushing Back.

by: Ella Fassler,; Truthout