News | Environment & Health Federal Agency Ends COVID Coverage for Uninsured After GOP Blocks Funds Around 31 million people in the U.S. don't have health insurance; meanwhile, the BA.2 subvariant threatens another wave. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams March 23, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights Disability Doesn’t Make Us Less Worthy of Life. COVID Policy Assumes It Does. As we hope for a world a little less dominated by COVID, we must recognize that risk will not be the same for everyone. By Elliot Kukla , Truthout March 23, 2022 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Sanders Tells Starbucks CEO to Stop Union Busting and “Obey the Law” “This is a pivotal moment for Starbucks,” Bernie Sanders wrote in a letter to Howard Schultz. “End the union busting.” By Sharon Zhang , Truthout March 22, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Electric Vehicles Could Service 99 Percent of Mail Routes, USPS Inspector Finds The report bolsters the argument against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to buy a fleet that’s 90 percent gas run. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout March 22, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | LGBTQ Rights Dark Money “Women’s Groups” Are Using Anti-Trans Scaremongering to Oppose ERA Anti-feminist women’s groups set on quashing the Equal Rights Amendment are stoking baseless fears about trans women. By Julia Peck , Ansev Demirhan , Alyssa Bowen , Truthout March 22, 2022 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Bernie Sanders Calls for the Cancellation of All Medical Debt “‘Medical debt’ and ‘Medical bankruptcy’ are two phrases that should not exist,” Sanders said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout March 22, 2022 Truthout
News | LGBTQ Rights GOP Attacks Threaten Gender-Affirming Care for a Third of Trans Youth in the US Fifteen states are moving to restrict gender-affirming care for an estimated 58,000 youth and young adults. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout March 22, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | War & Peace Amid Russia’s War, Some US Hawks Are Calling for Trillion-Dollar Military Budget The Pentagon budget is already so huge that returning to Cold War levels would mean reducing, not increasing spending. By William D. Hartung , Nick Cleveland-Stout , Taylor Giorno , TomDispatch March 22, 2022 Truthout
News | Human Rights Ukraine’s Children Are Vulnerable to Shady Adoption Schemes A far right Christian pastor just showed up in Poland with 63 Ukrainian kids. That may be just the beginning. By Kathryn Joyce , Salon March 22, 2022 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Wealthy Countries Must End Oil and Gas Production by 2034, Report Says For a 50 percent chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C, rich countries must cut off oil and gas in the next 12 years. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams March 22, 2022 Truthout