Op-Ed War & Peace The National Security State Doesn’t Protect Us. Let’s Redefine Security for All. Living under COVID for the past year has driven home the reality that militarization doesn’t buy security. by Lindsay Koshgarian, Truthout Feb 26, 2021
News Politics & Elections Sanders Blasts Parliamentarian’s Ruling Dropping Wage Hike From COVID Bill Sanders lambasted Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s decision that the wage raise was against the rules. by Chris Walker, Truthout Feb 26, 2021
News Politics & Elections Rep. Mary Miller’s Husband Owns Three Percenters Truck Seen at Capitol Breach Rep. Mary Miller is infamous for quoting Hitler at a Trump rally on January 5. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Feb 26, 2021
News Economy & Labor Biden Could Hire Jobless Oil and Gas Workers to Plug Abandoned Oil Wells Tens of thousands of oil and gas workers are losing their jobs. The Biden administration could hire them tomorrow. by Leanna First-Arai, Truthout Feb 25, 2021
News Prisons & Policing New Massachusetts Rules Would Eliminate Handwritten Letters in Prison The rules would increase surveillance of incarcerated people while also making written communications inaccessible. by Ella Fassler, Truthout Feb 25, 2021
Op-Ed Environment & Health No, Biden’s Climate Plans Don’t Cut It Beneath the aspirational language of Biden’s climate plans is a continued reliance on climate-destroying fossil fuels. by Wenonah Hauter, Truthout Feb 25, 2021
Instead of Fueling Cold War With China, Biden Should Collaborate on Climate An antagonistic stance toward China could prove a significant impediment to tackling climate change. by Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Feb 26, 2021
Over 100 Countries Push to Loosen Rules on Vaccine Patents as US Blocks the Way by Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! Feb 25, 2021
COVID Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for Blind People by Lauren Weber & Hannah Recht, Kaiser Health News Feb 25, 2021
Texas Power Grid Deregulation Cost Texans $28 Billion Over Two Decades by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Feb 24, 2021
The $15 Minimum Wage Isn’t Dead. Here’s How Democrats Can Still Get It Done. When the Senate parliamentarian ruled against GOP tax cuts in 2001, Republicans fired him and passed the cuts anyway. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Feb 26, 2021
Two-Thirds of GOP Voters Still Buy Into False Claims of Election Fraud by Chris Walker, Truthout Feb 25, 2021
Republicans Think Commission to Investigate January 6 Needs More Republicans by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Feb 25, 2021
Progressives to VP Kamala Harris: “Use Your Power. Keep $15 in.” The Senate parliamentarian's opinion on the minimum wage hike is not binding, and Harris has the authority to ignore it. by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Feb 26, 2021
Black Families Have a Major Stake in the Postal Service’s Future by Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger & Brian Wakamo, Inequality.org Feb 26, 2021
As US Mourns 500,000 Lives, Billionaires Gained $1.3 Trillion During Pandemic by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Feb 24, 2021
Ex-Undercover Officer Admits Role in FBI and NYPD Conspiracy Targeting Malcolm X The FBI and NYPD face renewed calls to open their records into the assassination of Malcolm X. by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Feb 26, 2021
Jail Won’t Solve White Supremacist Violence. Here’s How to Truly Confront It. by Kay Whitlock, Truthout Feb 22, 2021
White Supremacy Set the Stage for Texas’ Miserable Disaster Response by Scott Kurashige, Truthout Feb 21, 2021