News | Prisons & Policing LAPD Requested Amazon Ring Footage of Black Lives Matter Protests Technologies like Ring, when partnered with police, pose a dangerous risk to First Amendment rights. By Matthew Guariglia & Dave Maass , ElectronicFrontierFoundation February 18, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Biden’s Health Plan Shifts Even More Public Dollars Into Private Hands Biden’s American Rescue Plan, like the Affordable Care Act, does not move us any closer toward a single-payer system. By Margaret Flowers , Truthout February 18, 2021 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Gov. Andrew Cuomo Threatened Progressive NY Lawmaker Over Nursing Home Criticism New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has faced criticism recently for his office’s attempt to cover up nursing home deaths. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout February 17, 2021 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Rush Limbaugh’s Death Evokes Little Sympathy From Progressives on Social Media Limbaugh's brand of promulgating hate on the airwaves has been copied countless times by other right-wing radio hosts. By Chris Walker , Truthout February 17, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Texas Governor Blames Oil and Gas for Power Crisis But Attacks Renewables on Fox Gov. Greg Abbott had said elsewhere that natural gas failed Texas, but when he went on Fox, he attacked clean energy. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout February 17, 2021 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Biden Wants to Move Past Trump, Others Warn It’s Dangerous to Ignore the Past Biden refused to refer to Trump by his name during a recent town hall event, calling him “the former guy” instead. By Chris Walker , Truthout February 17, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections Trump and McConnell Do Battle as GOP Civil War Heats Up Lindsey Graham moans that Republicans may “eat our own.” We can hope. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout February 17, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Winter Storms Offer a Taste of the Climate Chaos Ahead If We Don’t Cut Emissions Weather extremes are what we must expect as we fill the atmosphere with fossil fuel emissions, a climate scientist says. By Leanna First-Arai , Truthout February 17, 2021 Truthout
News | Education & Youth AOC Calls to Keep Pushing as Biden Demurs on Canceling $50K in Student Loan Debt In lieu of canceling $50,000 in loan debt per borrower, Biden said he is “prepared to write off” $10,000 per person. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams February 17, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Biden Says Vaccines Will Be Available to Everyone in the US by the End of July Bottlenecks in vaccine administration remain, but Biden says that the U.S. will have over 600 million doses by August. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout February 17, 2021 Truthout