Truthout
Op-Ed

Family Visitation Rights Have Eroded in New York Prisons Following Guard Strike
As a person incarcerated in Elmira Correctional Facility, I see New York prioritizing prison labor over family visits.

Elites Want to Turn Schools Into Factories of Hopelessness. We Can’t Let Them.
“End times schooling” risks turning schools into graveyards for hope — but they can also be greenhouses for resistance.

How Do We Organize Through Exhaustion, Grief and Uncertainty?
Projects that help explain to people what’s happening are what’s going to help them make collective sense of the moment.

US Proxy War Displaced My Family 50 Years Ago. We Still Live in the Wreckage.
As the daughter of Hmong refugees, I know the traumatic consequences of American foreign policy.

The “Oligarch’s Budget” Wages War on Poor Americans
Unless you’re very wealthy, this bill will ultimately leave you worse off and more economically vulnerable.

NYPD Assault on CUNY Gaza Encampment Shows Why We Need Sanctuary Universities
My lived experience of Chile under Pinochet’s dictatorship drives my opposition to the current US crackdown on dissent.

We Are Being Blown Up by Israel in Places It Told Us Were Safe
Families like mine fled to areas that the Israeli military called “safe zones,” but it has continued to kill us there.

Millions of Black Americans Can’t Just Up and Leave Under Trump. We Must Fight.
We know this, but we are trapped in dreams of escape. Wherever we go, there is no real escape.

I Wrote This From Solitary Confinement. I Refuse to Let It Break Me.
“The hole” is a prison within a prison, where I’m just another number without a name.

Pete Hegseth Has Banned 3 of My Books From the US Naval Academy
Censorship is an act of cowardice and a direct refusal of the mirror I hold up to the US’s racist past and present.