Op-Ed Politics & Elections Trumpist Perdue Seems Poised to Lose Georgia to Brian Kemp We must always condemn Trumpists -- and their GOP opponents, too. Perdue and Kemp are key examples in these primaries. by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout May 23, 2022
Op-Ed Environment & Health Electric Cars and Lithium Extraction Threaten to Drive Even More Climate Harm Colonial policies of resource extraction are wreaking environmental havoc in poor countries that pollute the least. by Adriana Daroqui, Truthout May 23, 2022
Op-Ed Prisons & Policing The Drug War Drives Exploitation. We Need Drug Regulation, Not Criminalization. Legal regulation is a better path forward than either drug-related mass criminalization or a commercial free-for-all. by Kassandra Frederique, Truthout May 23, 2022
News Economy & Labor NLRB: Starbucks Must Recognize Union in Store After Violating Law Over 200 Times Requests for bargaining orders are rare, and the move is a show of how egregious Starbucks’s union busting has been. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout May 23, 2022
News Politics & Elections School Board Considers Reverting School Names Back to Confederate Generals The schools' names were originally changed after the police murder of George Floyd and the uprisings that followed. by Chris Walker, Truthout May 23, 2022
Interview Politics & Elections Noam Chomsky: The Supreme Court Is Wielding Illegitimate Authority in the US The Supreme Court has returned to its ultra-reactionary roots, and effects of this turn will be “extreme,” Chomsky says. by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout May 20, 2022
The Secret Service Has Spent $2 Million at Trump Properties, CREW Says The funds spent to protect Trump at his own properties "directly benefited him financially," the organization said. by Chris Walker, Truthout May 23, 2022
Ginni Thomas Told Arizona Republican Lawmakers to Overturn 2020 Election Outcome by Chris Walker, Truthout May 23, 2022
Climate-Conscious Voters Have Toppled Australia’s Right-Wing Prime Minister by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! May 23, 2022
The 2022 Elections Are Fraught With Undisclosed Dark Money by Anna Massoglia, OpenSecrets May 21, 2022
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
Baby Formula Maker Chose Shareholders Over Safety Amid Deadly Bacterial Outbreak 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
Biden Embraces Some Harm Reduction Policies — But Doubles Down on Drug War Biden’s recent budget request includes $355 million in additional funding for the Drug Enforcement Administration. by Mike Ludwig, Truthout Apr 27, 2022
Melissa Lucio’s Execution Was Put on Hold, But Threat of Death Penalty Remains by Victoria Law, Truthout Apr 26, 2022
Police Can Make a Crisis Worse. The Public Needs Alternatives in an Emergency. by William D. Lopez & Lisa R. Jackson, Truthout Apr 24, 2022
A Survivor of Violence and Her Sibling Share How the Legal System Punishes Them by Ella Fassler, Truthout Apr 18, 2022
Texas GOP Sets Sights on Banning Companies From Helping Workers Get Abortions The threat is the latest in Republicans’ quest to manipulate laws to wrest bodily autonomy from their constituents. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout May 23, 2022
Rep. Lucy McBath Warns Anti-Abortion Laws May Treat Miscarriage as Manslaughter by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! May 20, 2022
Oklahoma GOP Passes Anti-Abortion Bill That Bans Procedure at Fertilization by Chris Walker, Truthout May 20, 2022
Warren Calls Out Tech Firms for Selling Abortion Clinic Patients’ Location Data by Sharon Zhang, Truthout May 19, 2022