Op-Ed Environment & Health Vaccines Are Still Overwhelmingly Our Best Weapon Against COVID Even as concerned are raised, we must remember vaccines are by far the best weapon we have in this fight. by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Apr 13, 2021
Op-Ed Education & Youth Communities Hardest Hit by COVID Are Also Harmed Most by Standardized Testing Standardized testing under pandemic conditions will only magnify the inequities the tests were designed to perpetuate. by Jitu Brown & Beth Glenn, Truthout Apr 13, 2021
News Politics & Elections Dem-Aligned Pollsters: Our Data Was Off in 2020 and We’re Not Sure How to Fix It Five polling organizations that work with Democrats have several theories (but no consensus) on why things went wrong. by Chris Walker, Truthout Apr 13, 2021
News Racial Justice Brooklyn Center Police Use Tear Gas on Crowd 15 Minutes After Its Use Was Banned The police used cruel crowd tactics like tear gas and pepper spray to attack protesters Monday night. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Apr 13, 2021
News Prisons & Policing Residents of Minneapolis Suburb Rise Up Against Police Killing of Daunte Wright Police reportedly pulled Wright over for having air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror. by Chris Walker, Truthout Apr 12, 2021
Op-Ed Environment & Health Why I Cut Ties With Insurance Giant Liberty Mutual I want protection not just for my car but for life on Earth, and Liberty is one of the biggest insurers of fossil fuels. by Sarah van Gelder, Truthout Apr 12, 2021
Outrage Over Daunte Wright’s Killing Highlights the Risk of Driving While Black The shooting took place about 10 miles from where Derek Chauvin is on trial for killing George Floyd. by Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Apr 13, 2021
New Mexico Passes Marijuana Legalization — Including Racial Justice Provisions by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Apr 13, 2021
Being “Anti-Racist” Isn’t Enough. The Violence of Whiteness Must Be Exposed. by George Yancy, Truthout Apr 05, 2021
Spree of Anti-Asian Violence Has Long Roots — Including Terror in 1990s Philly by Scott Kurashige, Truthout Apr 05, 2021
Rainforests Could Turn Into Savannas as Climate Warms, New Study Warns Heat stress is disrupting a critical component of photosynthesis in trees found in the Amazon and Cerrado belt. by Malavika Vyawahare, Mongabay Apr 12, 2021
Only 0.2 Percent of COVID Vaccines Have Gone to Poor Countries by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Apr 12, 2021
More Than 3,600 US Health Care Workers Have Died in the Pandemic’s First Year by Jane Spencer & Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News Apr 11, 2021
Wolves Remain at Risk as Hunters and Their State-Level Allies Call the Shots by Kevin Bixby, Truthout Apr 10, 2021
Biden Poised to Break a Promise on Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Like the racist crackdown on crack cocaine, a crackdown on fentanyl is filling prisons, not preventing deaths. by Mike Ludwig, Truthout Apr 13, 2021
Intelligence Report on “Extremism” Equates Anarchists With Right-Wing Militias by Kristian Williams, Truthout Apr 07, 2021
To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up by James Kilgore, Truthout Apr 06, 2021
Corporations Back Away From Georgia Voting Bill After Funding Its Sponsors The GOP-backed bill introduces a series of stringent voter restrictions under the auspices of "election integrity." by Jon Skolnik, Salon Apr 13, 2021
Economic Pressure on GA Grows as Will Smith Pulls Film Production Out of State by Chris Walker, Truthout Apr 12, 2021
Racial Justice Activist Charles Booker Launches Exploration to Unseat Rand Paul by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Apr 12, 2021
Biden Fulfills Campaign Pledge to Create Commission on Supreme Court Reforms by Chris Walker, Truthout Apr 12, 2021