Op-Ed Politics & Elections Mitch McConnell Is Already Running Circles Around Chuck Schumer in the Senate Once again, the Democrats find themselves outflanked and tangled in their own wire. by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Jan 26, 2021
Interview Environment & Health Biden’s First Climate Actions Are a Result of Years of Indigenous Activism Indigenous activists emerged as leaders of a climate movement that put increasing pressure on Joe Biden. by Mike Ludwig, Truthout Jan 26, 2021
Op-Ed War & Peace One of the Democrats’ Biggest Hawks Is Now Senate Foreign Relations Chair Sen. Robert Menendez has opposed the Iran nuclear agreement and attacked Republicans from the right on foreign policy. by Stephen Zunes, Truthout Jan 26, 2021
News Politics & Elections Centrist Democrats Manchin, Sinema Side With McConnell to Protect the Filibuster Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have come out against filibuster reform, protecting a key tool for McConnell. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Jan 26, 2021
News Politics & Elections Experts Dispute GOP Senators’ Claim That Trump Impeachment Is Unconstitutional Historical precedent, plus the wording of the Constitution itself, suggest a former president can be impeached. by Chris Walker, Truthout Jan 26, 2021
Op-Ed Politics & Elections Trump Has Made Threats to Launch a New Political Party — the “Patriot Party” If Senate Republicans vote to convict Trump, he may try to shatter the GOP by starting a third party. by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Jan 25, 2021
Banned From Twitter, Trump Opens “Office of the Former President” to Push Agenda Trump may use the office to promote GOP candidates he considers allies over those he views as being disloyal to him. by Chris Walker, Truthout Jan 26, 2021
DC National Guard Chief: Pentagon Restricted Quick Response to Capitol Attack by Chris Walker, Truthout Jan 26, 2021
Inquiry Opened to Determine If DOJ Officials Tried to Overturn Election by Chris Walker, Truthout Jan 25, 2021
Sanders Wants to “Act Now” on COVID Relief But McConnell Is Holding Up Senate by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Jan 25, 2021
Schumer Calls on Biden to Declare a Climate Emergency as Ice Loss Accelerates Declaring a climate emergency allows Biden to allocate funding to clean energy and suspend activities like oil drilling. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Jan 26, 2021
Rural US Is Seriously Short on Resources Needed to Distribute Vaccine by Elizabeth Miller, Undark Jan 26, 2021
Trump’s Vaccine Distribution Plan Has Left Millions of Doses Unaccounted For by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Jan 25, 2021
Biden Pushes “Wartime Effort” to Fight COVID as US Death Toll Tops 410,000 by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Jan 22, 2021
Yemen Crisis Linked to Weapons Maker Raytheon’s Influence on US Foreign Policy Weapons makers like Raytheon don’t just follow U.S. foreign policy; they make it through allies embedded in government. by Chrisana M. Panzica, Truthout Jan 22, 2021
US Contributes to Violent Attacks on Yemen While Cutting Back Relief Efforts by Kathy Kelly, The Progressive Jan 21, 2021
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a Fierce Critic of US Foreign Policy by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Jan 18, 2021
Pompeo Urges US to “Confront” What He Calls the “Iran-al-Qaeda Axis” by Sam Knight, Truthout Jan 14, 2021
Biden Reversed Trans Military Ban, But States’ Attacks on Trans Rights Continue A raft of new legislation on the state level targets trans people in education, health care, and more. by Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Jan 26, 2021
Biden Executive Order Ends Transgender Military Ban Established by Trump by Chris Walker, Truthout Jan 25, 2021
The Year of COVID, Elections and Police Brutality Also Saw LGBTQ Activism by Toshio Meronek, Truthout Dec 31, 2020
Amazon Has Allowed Anti-LGBT Groups to Raise Money on Its Donations Platform by Lou Ferreira & Claire Provost, openDemocracy Dec 27, 2020