News Analysis | Economy & Labor Red Cross Is Instructing Truckers to Draw Blood and Nurses to Load Trucks A labor dispute at the American Red Cross (ARC) is challenging perceptions of the institution. By Kathy Wilkes , InTheseTimes December 11, 2017 Truthout
News | Two-Headed Bird Lands in Guatemala’s Political Arena: Mayan Women Fight to Protect Their Textile Heritage Thousands of years of Indigenous designs are at stake. By Elizabeth Rose , Truthout December 11, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Politics & Elections Trump Takes a Stand on Corruption — by Withdrawing the US From Anti-Corruption Pact Trump's hasty decision to pull out sends an unmistakable signal. By Emily Ludolf , Occupy.com December 11, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Economy & Labor The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal Today's Republicans would have fit right in to Herbert Hoover's administration. By Heather Cox Richardson , Moyers&Company December 11, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health How Northwest Communities Are Stopping Big Oil Projects A Washington state energy panel voted unanimously to oppose what would be the nation's largest oil-by-rail terminal. By Sarah van Gelder , YES!Magazine December 11, 2017 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections As Mueller Closes in on Trump, the Right Pushes Back: Will He Be Fired? With Trump in trouble, his allies argue that the entire Mueller investigation is a grand conspiracy. By Heather Digby Parton , Salon December 11, 2017 Truthout
News | “Cheated and Lied to”: How Insurers and Manufacturers Mask the Truth About High Drug Prices Diabetes activists uncover a secret system of backroom deals. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout December 11, 2017 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections Mick Mulvaney and the Bad Actors Club Congress could put a stop to this abuse of the authority to appoint “acting” heads of agencies. By Dean Baker , Truthout December 11, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | War & Peace The US Military Is the Biggest “Big Government” Entitlement Program on the Planet The US needs a mindset shift away from defense jobs. By JP Sottile , Truthout December 10, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health The Most Dire Climate Change Predictions Are Also the Most Accurate, Warns New Study New research shows emissions must go down every year starting in 2020 to prevent dangerous warming of planet. By Julia Conley , CommonDreams December 10, 2017 Truthout