News Analysis | Environment & Health Ex-Oil Lobbyist Expected to Replace Ryan Zinke: Here’s What’s at Stake As Zinke's deputy, David Bernhardt was behind the largest rollback of federal land protections in US history. By Julie Dermansky , DeSmogBlog December 19, 2018 Truthout
News | War & Peace A Canadian Yemeni’s Struggle to Shed Light on the War on Yemen Will Canada listen and be willing to give up its $15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia? By Zainab Rights , Truthout December 19, 2018 Truthout
News | Education & Youth DeVos’s Response to School Shootings? Make School More Like Prison Trump and DeVos are using gun violence to justify rolling back civil rights and militarizing public schools. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout December 19, 2018 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing The First Step Act Opens the Door to Digital Incarceration The First Step Act would increase the use of “digital prisons” — technologies that turn people's homes into jails. By James Kilgore , Truthout December 18, 2018 Truthout
News | Human Rights 181 Nations Voted to Help Refugees. Only Hungary and US Voted “No.” The United States was an outlier at the UN General Assembly in rejecting a framework to coordinate aid to refugees. By Andrea Germanos , CommonDreams December 18, 2018 Truthout
News Analysis | War & Peace Artificial Intelligence and the Future of War Pentagon officials think artificial intelligence and robotics will give them a significant advantage in future wars. By Michael T. Klare , TomDispatch December 18, 2018 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections By Attacking Obamacare, GOP Harms Itself You didn’t really think the GOP was done trying to dismantle Obamacare, did you? By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout December 18, 2018 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor Oligarchy Is Destroying Our Society and the Planet Oligarchs abuse the environment and erode the mutual trust society needs to function well, says James Boyce. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout December 18, 2018 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health Taiwanese Company Wants to Site Polluting Plastic Plant in Cancer Alley A permit hearing for serial polluter Formosa turned into a referendum on environmental racism. By Julie Dermansky , DeSmogBlog December 18, 2018 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor Workplace Violence Against Women Health Workers Hurts Us All Estimates show that violence in the health sector makes up a quarter of all assaults in the workplace. By Verónica Montúfar , openDemocracy December 18, 2018 Truthout