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A student is reflected in a rain puddle while passing by Sather Gate at the University of California, Berkeley, on February 19, 2026.

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Racial Justice

UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Directly Impacted Tribes

Some Native leaders say the omission is not an oversight -- it is a structural problem baked into the framework itself.

By: Petala Ironcloud ,; Truthout

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A voter casts his ballot at the Kent Free Library during the Ohio primaries on May 5, 2026, in Kent, Ohio.

Op-Ed

Politics & Elections

Gutting Voting Rights Act Is Just First Step in Far Right Plan to End Democracy

Curbing access to the ballot brings us closer to the far right's techno-feudalist dream of a "Dark Enlightenment.”

By: Nicholas Powers ,; Truthout

Israeli and Palestinian activists protest against the new death penalty law, approved earlier this week by the Knesset, on April 3, 2026 in Beit Jala, in the occupied West Bank.

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Human Rights

Israel Enacts Death Penalty Law for Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank

The law formalizes “the systematic, state-sanctioned killing of Palestinian detainees,” human rights advocates warned.

By: Shireen Akram-Boshar ,; Truthout

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Prisons & Policing

House Passes Bill Aimed at Cracking Down on Localities’ Cashless Bail Programs

A 2024 study found “no statistically significant relationship” linking cashless bail with increases in violent crime.

By: Chris Walker ,; Truthout

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One after his departure from Beijing Capital Airport in Beijing, China, on May 15, 2026, on his way back to the United States.

Op-Ed

Education & Youth

Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”

Trump’s lesson to children was to fear difference, obey power, and treat vulnerable people as threats.

By: Jesse Hagopian ,; Truthout

Voters check in before casting their ballots on the first day of early voting at the Louisiana State Archives on May 2, 2026, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Op-Ed

Racial Justice

Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow

The federal government is carrying forward a white nationalist backlash to the mass uprisings that took place in 2020.

By: Austin C. McCoy ,; Truthout

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US President Donald Trump speaks about the war on Iran in the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC.

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War & Peace

Trump Claims He Cancelled Planned Attack on Iran at Request of Gulf States

Trump said the US military is “prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran” if a deal isn’t reached.

By: Shireen Akram-Boshar ,; Truthout

Two women visit the ruins of Al-Shajara Al-Tayyiba School on May 13, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.

Interview

War & Peace

Trump’s War on Iran Is a Symptom of Unchecked US Military Power

Virtually everyone killed by the US during the “war on terror” has been a person of color, writer Norman Solomon says.

By: George Yancy ,; Truthout

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a health care affordability event where he announced a deal with pharmaceutical company Regeneron to lower drug prices, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2026.

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Trump Is Making America Uninsured Again

The GOP is heading into the midterms as the party that made health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

By: Sasha Abramsky ,; Truthout

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Politics & Elections

SCOTUS Ruling on Voting Rights Act Puts a Third of Black Caucus Seats at Risk

Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina is among the lawmakers at risk of losing their seats because of mid-census redraws.

By: Chris Walker ,; Truthout

Boys march with a figure depicting a traditional key symbolizing the homes that Palestinians evacuated in 1948 during the Nakba, their 1948 displacement by Zionist militias during the creation of Israel, during a march commemorating the 78th anniversary of the catastrophic event in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on May 12, 2026.

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Human Rights

For Palestinians, the Nakba Isn’t Just History. It’s Also Our Present.

Some Palestinian doctors argue there’s no PTSD in Gaza because the traumatization of genocide and survival is ongoing.

By: Hend Salama Abo Helow ,; Truthout

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Politics & Elections

Tennessee’s War on Black Political Power Demands Not Just Outrage But Resistance

The struggle isn’t just about surviving the next election — we must secure civil rights for the next generation.

By: Earle J. Fisher ,; Truthout

Interview

War & Peace

What Trump’s “Whenever Wars” Reveal About US Empire

“We really have to see the rise of Trump itself as an indictment of the whole system,” says Khury Petersen-Smith.

By: Kelly Hayes ,; Truthout

FBI Director Kash Patel and Assistant to the US President for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka attend the US Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag raising ceremony at the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 9, 2026.

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Politics & Elections

Trump Counterterrorism Strategy Expands Administration’s War on Progressives

The administration is increasingly attempting to scare activists into silence, but progressives are preparing instead.

By: Marianne Dhenin ,; Truthout

Iran

Commander of U.S. CENTCOM Brad Cooper testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on May 14, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Despite Repeated Bombings, CENTCOM Head Denies US Targeted Schools in Iran

“Today’s segregationist politics arrive dressed in procedural language, judicial reasoning, and carefully constructed talking points designed to make injustice sound administrative rather than ideological.”

– Earle J. Fisher, from Tennessee’s War on Black Political Power Demands Not Just Outrage But Resistance

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UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Directly Impacted Tribes

Gutting Voting Rights Act Is Just First Step in Far Right Plan to End Democracy

Israel Enacts Death Penalty Law for Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank

House Passes Bill Aimed at Cracking Down on Localities’ Cashless Bail Programs

Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”

Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow

Latest Stories

Trump Claims He Cancelled Planned Attack on Iran at Request of Gulf States

Trump’s War on Iran Is a Symptom of Unchecked US Military Power

Trump Is Making America Uninsured Again

SCOTUS Ruling on Voting Rights Act Puts a Third of Black Caucus Seats at Risk

For Palestinians, the Nakba Isn’t Just History. It’s Also Our Present.

Tennessee’s War on Black Political Power Demands Not Just Outrage But Resistance

What Trump’s “Whenever Wars” Reveal About US Empire

Trump Counterterrorism Strategy Expands Administration’s War on Progressives

Iran

Despite Repeated Bombings, CENTCOM Head Denies US Targeted Schools in Iran

Rep. Jared Golden Joins GOP to Block House Iran War Powers Resolution Yet Again

Iran’s Missile Arsenal Still Intact, Reports Say, Contradicting Trump’s Claims

Trump’s Justice Department Subpoenas News Outlets Over Iran War Coverage

We Can’t Curb Nuclear Proliferation If We Don’t Acknowledge Israel’s Nukes

Netanyahu Says War on Iran “Not Over” as Long as Iran Has Uranium

Decades of Congressional Inaction Contributed to Illegal US-Israeli War on Iran

Voting Wrongs

Supreme Court Is Poised to Gut Remaining Protections of the Voting Rights Act

Trump Votes by Mail in Florida Special Election, Despite Calling It “Cheating”

Trump Allies Circulating Draft Order to Declare National Emergency on Elections

I’ve Witnessed Trump Weaponize Georgia Ballots for Years. Then He Stole Mine.

Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms

Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data

Trump Militarized Cities in ICE Crackdowns. Is Militarizing the Ballot Box Next?

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Despite Repeated Bombings, CENTCOM Head Denies US Targeted Schools in Iran

Rep. Jared Golden Joins GOP to Block House Iran War Powers Resolution Yet Again

Iran’s Missile Arsenal Still Intact, Reports Say, Contradicting Trump’s Claims

Trump’s Justice Department Subpoenas News Outlets Over Iran War Coverage

We Can’t Curb Nuclear Proliferation If We Don’t Acknowledge Israel’s Nukes

Netanyahu Says War on Iran “Not Over” as Long as Iran Has Uranium

Decades of Congressional Inaction Contributed to Illegal US-Israeli War on Iran

Supreme Court Is Poised to Gut Remaining Protections of the Voting Rights Act

Trump Votes by Mail in Florida Special Election, Despite Calling It “Cheating”

Trump Allies Circulating Draft Order to Declare National Emergency on Elections

I’ve Witnessed Trump Weaponize Georgia Ballots for Years. Then He Stole Mine.

Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms

Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data

Trump Militarized Cities in ICE Crackdowns. Is Militarizing the Ballot Box Next?