Interview Economy & Labor Let’s Acknowledge Inflation Reduction Act’s Significance — and Its Inadequacy The modest climate gains expected from this bill are compromised by the gas pipeline side deal written in by Manchin. by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
Op-Ed Politics & Elections Are the Bells Tolling for Donald Trump, at Long Last? As we watch the walls close in on Trump, let's not forget that the potential for right-wing violence is all too real. by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
News Environment & Health Mass Death of Sequoias Is the Harbinger of Earth Systems Collapse We have entered an era where burned forests may not return unless we cool Earth to below the tipping point. by Bruce Melton, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
News Politics & Elections Trump Describes FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search as “Dark Times” for the Country The search couldn't have happened without probable cause and a sign-off from a federal judge, legal experts noted. by Chris Walker, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
News Politics & Elections Private Equity Gave Sinema $500k, So She Exempted It From Corporate Minimum Tax Two of Sinema's only requests for the already weak bill were to protect tax breaks for private equity firms. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
News Economy & Labor Subminimum Wages Were Always Deplorable. Inflation Is Making Them Worse. Activists are pushing to end policies that allow employers to pay some workers less than the $7.25 federal minimum wage. by Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout Aug 08, 2022
Schumer Pledges to Bring $35 Insulin Cap to Another Vote to Bring “Heat” to GOP Republicans are facing a deluge of criticism for blocking the potentially life-saving proposal. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
Kevin McCarthy Pledges to Investigate Garland After Mar-a-Lago FBI Search by Chris Walker, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
Jan. 6 Committee Obtains Alex Jones’s Texts Discovered in Defamation Trial by Chris Walker, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
GOP Blames Biden for Mar-a-Lago Search, But FBI Is Headed by Trump’s Director by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Aug 09, 2022
Seoul Sees “Two Months” of Rain in Half a Day, Killing at Least 8 The storm is further evidence that climate disaster is already here, scientists say. by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Aug 09, 2022
GOP Votes Down Plan to Cap Insulin Prices at $35 in Win for Big Pharma by Sharon Zhang, Truthout Aug 08, 2022
COVID Hasn’t Been Defeated, But Effective Public Health Measures Have Been by Rob Wallace, Truthout Aug 08, 2022
Confusion Over COVID Vaccine Safety Led to Many Avoidable Stillbirths by Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica Aug 07, 2022
Austin Schools Will Now Offer Free Pads and Tampons: Period Equity Is Expanding Students are fighting for equal access to menstrual supplies -- and winning. by Nadra Nittle, The 19th Aug 09, 2022
Sterilization Laws Are Still on the Books — and Pose New Dangers Post-“Roe” by Joaquín M. Lara Midkiff, Truthout Aug 07, 2022
Indiana Becomes First State to Pass Extreme Abortion Ban After Roe’s Fall by Common Dreams Staff, Common Dreams Aug 06, 2022
DeSantis Suspends Prosecutor Who Said He Wouldn’t Enforce State Abortion Law by Chris Walker, Truthout Aug 05, 2022
Bishop Barber Calls on Clergy to Go to Russia to Urge Release of Brittney Griner The WNBA star was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for possessing two ounces of cannabis oil. by Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Aug 09, 2022
Black Panther and Former Political Prisoner Albert Woodfox Has Died of COVID by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Aug 05, 2022
17 States and DC Have Stopped Reporting Active COVID Cases Behind Bars by Victoria Law, Truthout Aug 05, 2022
Incarcerated Women in Illinois Win Court Battle Against Brutal “Tactical Team” by Brian Dolinar, Truthout Aug 01, 2022