Truthout
Op-Ed
The US Is Criminalizing Homelessness and Expanding Incarceration. Who Profits?
From private prisons to health care scams, the attack on unhoused people is about exploitation, not safety.
A Torturous Sanitation Disaster Is Unfolding in Gaza’s Displacement Camps
Every morning we wake to disease, dust, and the unbearable stench of open sewage.
ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling.
Watching disappearances in our community leaves psychological trauma, but we can counter it with our solidarity.
ICE Agents Are Using Family Separation Tactics Central to US State Violence
The US’s family policing system honed many of the tactics now being used by ICE agents in Chicago.
To Honor Miss Major, We Fight for the Trans and Queer Spaces She Built
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy embraced the messiness of revolt with magnetic optimism.
Democratic Party Leadership Still Refuses to Address the Root of Inequality
Three decades ago, it cleared a path that led toward the likes of the DOGE wrecking crew.
Activists Can’t Give In to Bad-Faith Smears on Pro-Palestine Speech and Slogans
When movements let their messages be watered down, they risk the erosion of their ideas in popular consciousness.
I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.
RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.
NYC Public Schools System Defies Trump Anti-Trans Demands, Files Lawsuit
This defiance stands in sharp contrast to the elite institutions that have capitulated under federal funding threats.
Recognizing Palestinian Statehood Is the Floor. Liberation Must Be the Ceiling.
One by one, nations formally recognized the State of Palestine. But what does that mean with Gaza reduced to rubble?