News | Education & Youth Secondary Education Is Borrowing Ideas From Early Childhood The silliness has a purpose: it allows kids to build relationships and take some time to play: two key parts of learning. By Sarah Garland , TheHechingerReport May 20, 2017 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike as Trump Visits Israel On Palestinian Prisoners' Day, approximately 1,500 prisoners began refusing food, ingesting only salt water, in an ongoing hunger strike. By Marjorie Cohn , Truthout May 20, 2017 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections How Trump’s New “Election Integrity” Appointee Has Unleashed Chaos on Elections in the South Kris Kobach has had an effect on elections around the South by injecting legal wrangling, misinformation and confusion into electoral processes. By Sue Sturgis , FacingSouth May 20, 2017 Truthout
Review | Toward a Climate Insurgency What the hell are we supposed to do now? By Jay OHara , WagingNonviolence May 20, 2017 Truthout
Op-Ed | But Wait, US Bank Has Not Stopped Funding Pipelines Despite announcing its intent to stop pipeline project loans, US Bank still gives massive amounts of general financing to oil giants who build pipelines. By Members of Mazaska Talks , YES!Magazine May 20, 2017 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor Focusing on Trump’s Deep Cuts in Basic Assistance for Struggling Families — and Tax Cuts for the Top The Trump budget and tax proposals would make life still more luxurious for those at the top while increasing poverty and hardship. By Robert Greenstein , CenteronBudgetandPolicyPriorities May 20, 2017 Truthout
Interview | Resistance in the Age of Trumpism: An Interview With Gerald Epstein Trump is a proto-fascist on a path toward fascism and authoritarianism, says political economist Gerald Epstein. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout May 20, 2017 Truthout
Interview | How Unprofessional Development Inspires Creativity, Collaboration and Community Service in Classrooms In this interview, Christina Jenkins discusses the vision for Unprofessional Development. By Cat Johnson , Shareable May 20, 2017 Truthout
News | How Electric Utility Customers Are Forced to Fund the Edison Electric Institute and Other Political Organizations Utilities should have to disclose the exact benefits that their political industry associations confer to ratepayers. By Matthew Kasper , RepublicReport May 19, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Economy & Labor If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We While US politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects. By Ellen Brown , TheWebofDebtBlog May 19, 2017 Truthout