Truthout
From Asia to the Middle East, US Bombs Are a Failed Foreign Policy Choice
The only reliable products of US airpower are devastated civilian populations and suppression of internal movements.
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Battle Over Medication Abortion Threatens to Revert US Back to 19th Century
SCOTUS has temporarily paused a Fifth Circuit Court ruling that echoed the Comstock Act of 1873, an anti-obscenity law.
ICE Separated 145,000 Children From Their Parents Since 2025, Study Estimates
“Family separations cause lasting trauma that no child should ever have to endure,” one lawmaker said.
Trump Admin’s “Rededicate 250” Event Panned as Christian Nationalist Gathering
Instead of appearing in person at the event he widely promoted, the president reportedly spent the day golfing.
UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Directly Impacted Tribes
Some Native leaders say the omission is not an oversight -- it is a structural problem baked into the framework itself.
Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow
The federal government is carrying forward a white nationalist backlash to the mass uprisings that took place in 2020.
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Trump Admin Sanctions Flotilla Activists, Baselessly Claims Ties to Hamas
Israel wants to “criminalize solidarity work,” said one of the activists who was sanctioned.
Blanche Says Trump “Slush Fund” Payouts Could Include Jan. 6 Participants
Among those who could be eligible for payouts are members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
Gutting Voting Rights Act Is Just First Step in Far Right Plan to End Democracy
Curbing access to the ballot brings us closer to the far right’s techno-feudalist dream of a “Dark Enlightenment.”
Trump’s War on Iran Is a Symptom of Unchecked US Military Power
Virtually everyone killed by the US during the “war on terror” has been a person of color, writer Norman Solomon says.
Trump Is Making America Uninsured Again
The GOP is heading into the midterms as the party that made health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.
Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”
Trump’s lesson to children was to fear difference, obey power, and treat vulnerable people as threats.
For Palestinians, the Nakba Isn’t Just History. It’s Also Our Present.
Some Palestinian doctors argue there’s no PTSD in Gaza because the traumatization of genocide and survival is ongoing.
Tennessee’s War on Black Political Power Demands Not Just Outrage But Resistance
The struggle isn’t just about surviving the next election — we must secure civil rights for the next generation.
Iran
Trump Claims He Cancelled Planned Attack on Iran at Request of Gulf States
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Despite Repeated Bombings, CENTCOM Head Denies US Targeted Schools in Iran
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Rep. Jared Golden Joins GOP to Block House Iran War Powers Resolution Yet Again
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What Trump’s “Whenever Wars” Reveal About US Empire
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Iran’s Missile Arsenal Still Intact, Reports Say, Contradicting Trump’s Claims
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Trump’s Justice Department Subpoenas News Outlets Over Iran War Coverage
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We Can’t Curb Nuclear Proliferation If We Don’t Acknowledge Israel’s Nukes
“Today’s segregationist politics arrive dressed in procedural language, judicial reasoning, and carefully constructed talking points designed to make injustice sound administrative rather than ideological.”
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Voting Wrongs
SCOTUS Ruling on Voting Rights Act Puts a Third of Black Caucus Seats at Risk
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Supreme Court Is Poised to Gut Remaining Protections of the Voting Rights Act
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Trump Votes by Mail in Florida Special Election, Despite Calling It “Cheating”
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Trump Allies Circulating Draft Order to Declare National Emergency on Elections
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I’ve Witnessed Trump Weaponize Georgia Ballots for Years. Then He Stole Mine.
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Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms
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Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data