News Economy & Labor Graduate Student Workers Across the Country Are Helping Each Other Unionize The interconnectedness of the movement across far-flung campuses is fueling a cascade of wins in unionization campaigns. by Ella Fassler, Truthout May 22, 2022
Op-Ed Economy & Labor Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies The pandemic showed that localized economies are better equipped to respond to the needs of their communities. by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick & Henry Coleman, Truthout May 22, 2022
Op-Ed Human Rights Abd El-Fattah Is a Political Prisoner in Egypt. US Aid Is Funding His Jailers. Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah, voice of the Arab Spring revolutions, began a hunger strike on April 2. by Nadine Naber & Atef Said, Truthout May 21, 2022
Op-Ed Environment & Health The Greatest Trick COVID Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World It Didn’t Exist The push to rose-color even the grimmest data stumbles over immunocompromised people like me. by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout May 21, 2022
News Politics & Elections AOC Says Bipartisan Bill to Grant Puerto Rico Self-Determination Is “Un Milagro” The bill is a result of negotiations between pro-statehood advocates and lawmakers in favor of self-determination. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout May 20, 2022
News Reproductive Rights Oklahoma GOP Passes Anti-Abortion Bill That Bans Procedure at Fertilization The ban utilizes a Texas-like enforcement mechanism, allowing residents to sue abortion providers for sums of $10,000. by Chris Walker, Truthout May 20, 2022
The 2022 Elections Are Fraught With Undisclosed Dark Money Nonprofits that do not disclose their donors reported less than $3 million of their independent spending to the FEC. by Anna Massoglia, OpenSecrets May 21, 2022
Republicans Gave Tours of Capitol Before Attack, According to Jan. 6 Committee by Chris Walker, Truthout May 20, 2022
Noam Chomsky: The Supreme Court Is Wielding Illegitimate Authority in the US by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout May 20, 2022
CPAC Speakers in Hungary Embrace Plan for “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” by Kathryn Joyce, Salon May 20, 2022
Baby Formula Maker Chose Shareholders Over Safety Amid Deadly Bacterial Outbreak New documents show Abbott issued stock buybacks instead of investing in equipment that could have saved babies' lives. by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams May 20, 2022
Progressives Say Abbott’s “Near Monopoly” Laid Groundwork for Baby Food Shortage by Sharon Zhang, Truthout May 18, 2022
Environmental Advocates Decry Plan to Dump Water From Fukushima Into the Pacific by Julia Conley, Common Dreams May 18, 2022
Baby Formula Shortage Reveals Corporate Monopolies’ Grip on Market by Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! May 17, 2022
Whistleblower Warns Development Threatens Louisiana’s Sacred Black History Sites Plans to build a $400 million grain elevator would disrupt Black burial grounds and educational sites about slavery. by Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica May 22, 2022
Anti-Terrorism Bill Targeting White Supremacists Puts House GOP on the Defensive by Mike Ludwig, Truthout May 20, 2022
“Innocent” White People Are Also Complicit in the Anti-Black Murders in Buffalo by George Yancy, Truthout May 17, 2022
Alicia Garza: “The Shooter Wrote a Manifesto, and My Name Was Included In It” by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout May 17, 2022
Rep. Lucy McBath Warns Anti-Abortion Laws May Treat Miscarriage as Manslaughter The Democratic congressmember from Georgia spoke against the criminalization of reproductive care. by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! May 20, 2022
Warren Calls Out Tech Firms for Selling Abortion Clinic Patients’ Location Data by Sharon Zhang, Truthout May 19, 2022
Anticipating End of “Roe,” Michigan Judge Blocks 1931 Anti-Abortion Law by Chris Walker, Truthout May 18, 2022