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Biden’s Infrastructure Law Has Put a “Climate Time Bomb” in Black Neighborhoods
A new report says the bill's highway investments will wipe out climate progress and displace Black communities.
![A protester waves toward prisoners at the Metropolitan Detention Center, on February 4, 2019, in Brooklyn, New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1093794956-400x300.jpg)
In NY Jails, Prisoners Must Submit Their Abuse Grievances to Their Abusers
Legal victories by LGBTQ people and youth of color face rollbacks amid the rise of new, reactionary sheriffs.
![Pro-Palestine student demonstrators wave flags and wear keffiyehs at a march in New York City](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1795900352-400x300.jpg)
Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities
A major Israeli news site says Israel’s foreign affairs and diaspora affairs ministries are behind the operation.
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US Has Redefined “Human Shields” to Enable Israel’s Slaughter of Gaza Civilians
President Biden and members of Congress have cynically reinterpreted “human shields” to flout international law.
![Demonstrators attend a pro-Palestinian rally outside Union Station in Toronto, Ontario, on March 16, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0322-canada-palestine-400x300.jpg)
Here’s What Canada’s Vote to End Arms Sales to Israel Means for Antiwar Effort
Canada's Parliament passed a nonbinding motion to end arms sales to Israel — but not arms purchases from Israel.
![Muhammad Al-Khudari, a teacher from Gaza who lost most of his family due to Israeli attacks and had to flee to Rafah, is seen teaching children in Rafah, Gaza on March 8, 2024. Khudari has set up a classroom among tents in al-Barakasat camp, north of Rafah city, for children deprived of their right to education due to the attacks.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-2061710435-400x300.jpg)
Israel Has Ruined 76 Percent of Gaza’s Schools in Systematic Attack on Education
Denying Palestinians’ right to education has been central to Israel’s settler-colonial project for eight decades.
![Jamie Heard reads to her son Legend at their home in Chelsea, Alabama, on March 5, 2024. Jaime's IVF process was halted due to the supreme court decision that embryos are considered children.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-2059267176-400x300.jpg)
Alabama IVF Ruling Is About Controlling Who Can Reproduce the Citizenry
The GOP is on an earnest quest to create a theocracy in which white patriarchy remains dominant in the US.
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Rent Increases Are Driving Inflation — and Pessimism About Economy Under Biden
Democrats say the economy is great, but millions of tenants are struggling to pay historic rent increases.
![Protesters with a banner reading 'veto genocide Joe,' in front of a Starbucks Coffee at a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people in Paris, France, on March 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0314-starbucks--400x300.jpg)
How Solidarity With Palestine Helped Boost Starbucks Workers United
There are important lessons for working-class internationalism embedded in the Starbucks organizing experience.
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Biden’s Use of the Slur “Illegal” Underscores His Rightward Lurch on Immigration
Trump’s border plan is fascist. Why is the Democratic Party ceding rhetorical ground rather than confronting the right?