Truthout
Photo Essay
Twenty Photos That Take You Behind the Miskitu Curtain
Here are the hidden faces and everyday struggles of a simmering, lesser-known conflict zone.
Watching the Rails: One Community’s Quest for Safety
Faced with a deadly new threat, residents in one predominately African-American community are organizing their neighbors and allies from far and wide.
Ending the War Inside and Outside Us
I've tried to tell these stories through six photo essays. I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I did in putting them together. They depict the #Enough! GENeration …
How Women-Led Movements Are Redefining Power, From California to Nepal
In the face of corporate domination, economic injustice and climate change, movements led by women offer a revolutionary path.
How Many Global Crises Can a Fifteen-Year-Old Afghan Take On, Including the Water Crisis?
But, for the children, for mothers and for all humanity, we should not give up till we help one another undo these man-made crises.
The Perfect Crime: What’s Killing All the Bees?
Mega-corporations are making a killing off their pesticides - but are they also getting away with murder?
In Panama, the Price of a Great Engineering Feat Is Largely Forgotten
Remembering the past is difficult in a country that wants to detach its association from prejudiced policies.
Celebrating Resilience on Trans Day of Remembrance
Through their work, artists seek to lift up the resilience, power and beauty of trans and gender-nonconforming communities of color.
The Badger-Two Medicine Area: Too Sacred to Drill
For more than 10,000 years, the Badger-Two Medicine area near Glacier National Park in Montana has provided subsistence and identity for the Blackfeet Nation.
Nobody Breathes Underground: Ongoing Tragedy Follows Guatemalan Landslide
Days after the landslide just outside Guatemala City, the death toll is progressing slowly.