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December 12, 2019

Rep. Ro Khanna, right, and Sen. Bernie Sanders speak during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, April 4, 2019.

News Politics & Elections

Progressives Rebel as House Hands Trump War Spending Package

The “Afghanistan Papers” loom large over the military spending debate.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

December 12, 2019

Steering wheel manufacturing at Delphi Delco Electronics de Mexico, a maquiladora plant across the U.S. border.

News Economy & Labor

A Rising Movement Is Challenging Mexico’s Corporatized Unions

The 20/32 Movement promises to end the decades-long reign of corrupt union bosses.

by Tom Sullivan, Truthout

December 12, 2019

President Trump speaks at The Diplomat Conference Center for the Israeli-American Council Summit on December 7, 2019, in Hollywood, Florida.

Op-Ed Human Rights

Trump’s Executive Order Is No Favor to US Jews. Just Look at Algeria.

The colonial French government divided Algerian Jews and Muslims with a similar decree. Then the Nazis took power.

by Talia Kamran, Eva Kalikoff, Truthout

December 12, 2019

Nancy Pelosi stands alongside other house democrats behind a podium

Op-Ed Politics & Elections

Are These Two Articles of Impeachment the Best the Democrats Can Do?

The House could have done the articles of impeachment right. Instead, they did the minimum.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

Rep. Ro Khanna, right, and Sen. Bernie Sanders speak during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, April 4, 2019. — Progressives Rebel as House Hands Trump War Spending Package

Steering wheel manufacturing at Delphi Delco Electronics de Mexico, a maquiladora plant across the U.S. border. — A Rising Movement Is Challenging Mexico’s Corporatized Unions

President Trump speaks at The Diplomat Conference Center for the Israeli-American Council Summit on December 7, 2019, in Hollywood, Florida. — Trump’s Executive Order Is No Favor to US Jews. Just Look at Algeria.

Nancy Pelosi stands alongside other house democrats behind a podium — Are These Two Articles of Impeachment the Best the Democrats Can Do?

Featured

Indigenous people from Brazil take part in a demonstration demanding climate justice outside the venue of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, on December 9, 2019.

UN: Climate Change Will Create “New Great Divergence” Between Rich and Poor

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

A worker loads a truck with packages at an Amazon packaging center on November 28, 2019, in Brieselang, Germany.

How to Avoid Amazon This Holiday Season

by: Brian Van Slyke,; Truthout

Rep. Devin Nunes, right, speaks with Rep. Mark Meadow during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on December 4, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Pressure Mounts for Deeper Investigation of Devin Nunes in Ukraine Scandal

by: Alexis Goldstein,; Truthout

Activists hold large matchboxes with photos of donald trump and jair bolsonaro

We Must Overcome Our Atomization to Beat Back Neoliberal Fascism

by: Henry A. Giroux,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

Rep. Ro Khanna, right, and Sen. Bernie Sanders speak during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, April 4, 2019.

Progressives Rebel as House Hands Trump War Spending Package

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

Hillary Clinton makes a face while holding a microphone

FBI Agents Showed Bias Against Hillary Clinton, Not Against Trump, DOJ Says

by: Igor Derysh,; Salon

Evo Morales

Morales’s Coup Fits a Long Pattern in Bolivian History

by: Ted Snider,; Truthout

Nancy Pelosi stands alongside other house democrats behind a podium

Are These Two Articles of Impeachment the Best the Democrats Can Do?

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

Exclusives

Incumbent Democrats Are Facing Serious Primary Challenges From Progressives

Incumbent Democrats Are Facing Serious Primary Challenges From Progressives

Competitive Democratic primaries are putting real pressure on incumbents to adopt progressive priorities.

by: Zaid Jilani,; Truthout

Morales’s Coup Fits a Long Pattern in Bolivian History

Morales’s Coup Fits a Long Pattern in Bolivian History

The U.S. government has opposed Evo Morales since he came to power in 2006, but U.S. meddling goes back even further.

by: Ted Snider,; Truthout

Locking People Up Doesn’t Make Us Safer, Abuse Survivor Says

Locking People Up Doesn’t Make Us Safer, Abuse Survivor Says

Domestic violence does not go away when people are locked up, says Kristie Puckett-Williams.

by: James Kilgore,; Truthout

Environment & Health

Uganda’s First Fridays for Future Climate Striker Joins COP25 Protests in Madrid

Uganda’s First Fridays for Future Climate Striker Joins COP25 Protests in Madrid

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Greta Thunberg Slams Response to Climate Crisis at COP25 as "Creative PR"

Greta Thunberg Slams Response to Climate Crisis at COP25 as “Creative PR”

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Court Yard Estates care home operated out of this rented house in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

In California Care Homes, Residents Are Neglected and Workers Are Exploited

by: Jennifer Gollan,; Reveal

Climate activists protest during the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain, on December 11, 2019.

Polluting Companies Are Sponsoring COP25 Talks in Exchange for Tax Breaks

by: Sophie Yeo,; DeSmogBlog

Economy & Labor

Steering wheel manufacturing at Delphi Delco Electronics de Mexico, a maquiladora plant across the U.S. border.

A Rising Movement Is Challenging Mexico’s Corporatized Unions

by: Tom Sullivan,; Truthout

The campaign to elect a new slate of officials to head the Teamsters Local 695 was comprised of mostly Madison Metro Transit employees and came 96 votes short of unseating incumbent leadership.

In Wisconsin, the Teamsters Faced a Revolt From Below

by: Alice Herman,; In These Times

A closed Toys "R" Us store seen in Hickory, North Carolina, December 19, 2018.

As Toys “R” Us Stages Holiday Comeback, Workers Organize to Protect Themselves

by: Sarah Anderson,; OtherWords

A chemical plant

Chemical Companies Are Building Their Plants Overseas and Shipping Them Back In

by: Sara Sneath,; ProPublica

Immigration

Doctors protest at the gates of the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station in San Ysidro, California, on December 9, 2019.

US Border Officials Deny Request to Give Free Flu Vaccine to Detained Migrants

by: Eoin Higgins,; Common Dreams

ICE detainees flash lights from cell windows from the upper floors of the Metropolitan Detention Center on June 14, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.

How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Detain and Deport Immigrants

by: Ian MacDougall,; ProPublica

The Trump administration's sweeping changes to the H-1B program has denied visas to many skilled immigrants who have worked in the U.S. for years.

Trump Has Built a Bureaucratic Wall to Keep Out Immigrants He Says He Wants

by: Sinduja Rangarajan,; The Center for Investigative Reporting

Officials used machetes to destroy tents in a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico.

Mexican Immigration Officials Destroy Asylum Seekers’ Tents

by: Erin Sheridan,; People Live Here

Racial Justice

Madonna Sitting Bear is pictured with her children on April 4, 2019, in Mission, South Dakota.

Paper Genocide: The Barriers to an Accurate Count of Native People in 2020

by: Jen Deerinwater,; Rewire.News

Russel Pearce stands in front of the supreme court building

ALEC Is an Incubator for Efforts to Protect White Supremacy, Says New Report

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

people gather for the first thanksgiving meal in a painting that has burned edges

Thanksgiving Is Dedicated to Erasing the Ruthlessness of English Settlers

by: Joseph M. Pierce,; Truthout

A man sits inside of a cage along with other prisoners

“Prison Gerrymandering” Could Inflate Population Counts During 2020 Census

by: Olivia Paschal,; Facing South

LGBTQ Rights

A woman holds a sign reading "PROTECT TRANS KIDS" during a protest

Anti-Trans Discrimination Begins in the Classroom

by: Bethany M. Coston,; Rewire.News

Two young women hold eachother while looking at the camera

Conservative Christians Are Making Schools Less Safe for LGBTQ Students

by: Eleanor J. Bader,; Truthout

Image description: illustration of two Black trans people looking into each others eyes and touching hands in a starry sky. Below them are roses behind a city skyline and the text "#BlackTransLivesMatter." Below this are pink, blue and white butterflies flying through a gate into the sky. At the bottom of the image is a Black trans woman, smiling and speaking into a megaphone with her fist in the air. Behind her is a crowd holding a banner that says: "Give Us Our Roses While we're Still Here.

Honoring Murdered Trans People Isn’t Enough. We Must End the Killing.

by: Imara Jones,; Truthout

On Trans Day of Resilience, Artists Show Us a Future of Liberation

by: xoài phạm,; Truthout

Prisons & Policing

Boris Johnson stands in a factory holding rolls of wrapping paper

UK Politicians Are Cynically Using London Bridge Attack to Drum Up Votes

by: Sabra Williams,; Truthout

Police Halt Activist-Led “Toxic Tour” of Corporate Polluters Sponsoring COP25

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

A prison gate is in the foreground of a scene where gaurds look into people's cells

Locking People Up Doesn’t Make Us Safer, Abuse Survivor Says

by: James Kilgore,; Truthout

The entrance to the Temporary Detention Center at the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Built in the decade after Hurricane Katrina, this “temporary” row of squat, metal-sided structures were supposed to shut down in 2017.

New Orleans Activists Clash With Sheriff Over Jail Expansion

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

War & Peace

President Trump addresses U.S. troops on November 28, 2019, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

Complicity With Imperialism Is Holding Back the Anti-Trump Resistance

by: Azeezah Kanji,; Truthout

the u.s. flag billows

American Exceptionalism Is Killing the Planet

by: William J. Astore,; TomDispatch

A silhouetted figure kneels in the grass to plant a small u.s. flag in the ground

As a Military Spouse, I’m Trying to Bear Witness to the Costs of War

by: Andrea Mazzarino,; TomDispatch

Pope Francis Calls Nuclear Weapons Immoral as Catholic Activists Face Jail

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

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Voting Wrongs

Voting Wrongs

We expose the injustices that deny the vote to millions — and cover the fight for true enfranchisement.

Climate Disruption Dispatches

Climate Disruption Dispatches

Each month, we chronicle the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

How Then Shall We Live?

How Then Shall We Live?

Finding our way and peace of heart amidst global collapse.

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Marjorie Cohn analyzes human rights and executive branch lawbreaking.

The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testifies during a hearing before House Education and Labor Committee December 12, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Betsy DeVos Forced Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges to Repay Loans

by: Igor Derysh,; Salon

In struggling Rust Belt cities, child care deserts threaten educational progress.

Wealthy Cities Can Afford to Expand Pre-K. What About Everyone Else?

by: Megan Conn,; The Hechinger Report

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee on March 28, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

DeVos Accused of Scheming to Stop Next President From Canceling Student Debt

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams

Two women lean over a desk in a small business

Mayor Pete Is Wrong — Free Public College Could Unite the Country

by: Alexis Goldstein,; Truthout

Culture & Media

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019.

Social Media Penetrates Every Aspect of Our Online Lives for Profit

by: Tina Sikka,; Florian Zollmann,; Daniel Broudy &; Jeffery Klaehn,; Truthout

Edward Snowden: In the US, I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

The film Parasite hints at an urgent need for as-yet unimagined new futures that work better for more people.

“Parasite” Reaches Toward a Classless Future We Haven’t Fully Imagined

by: Dawn Tefft,; Truthout

Michael Bloomberg stands in front of a dark blue backdrop

Bloomberg’s Press Cheerleaders Are Ignoring and Downplaying His Scandals

by: Ari Paul,; FAIR