Op-Ed | Environment & Health Coercive Mental Health Legislation Threatens Rights of People With Disabilities The Murphy Bill uses people with mental illnesses as scapegoats for gun violence while threatening civil liberties. By Sadie Ryanne Baker , Truthout July 25, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership President Obama’s Vietnam? “Credibility” is an ill-defined goal, and the quest for it can have very bad outcomes, as we saw in Vietnam. By Dean Baker , Truthout July 25, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | Hillary-Kaine: Back to the Center Clinton's VP choice, Tim Kaine, bends to pressure from Wall Street and the mainstream media. By William K Black , ConsortiumNews July 25, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | The World After Me: Eternal “Wartime” in the US The fate of lost children, if they become the norm, will be the scandal of the century. By Tom Engelhardt , TomDispatch July 25, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Fourteen Movies That Illustrate Problem With Law Enforcement Polarized media representations of police brutality undermines honest conversation about systemic bias. By Joonatan Allandi , Speakout July 25, 2016 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Koch Brothers’ Fingerprints Can Be Found All Over GOP Convention Over the years, the Koch network has contributed large amounts of money to Governor Mike Pence. By Mary Bottari , PRWatch July 24, 2016 Truthout
News | The Republicans Just Passed a Platform That Would Eviscerate Workers’ Rights In a not particularly unexpected move, Republicans are denying workers of their right to unionize while targeting their most vulnerable communities. By Victoria Albert , InTheseTimes July 24, 2016 Truthout
News | Northwest Tribes Band Together to Stop Oil-by-Rail Coastal tribes share tactics and resources to bring fossil fuel transport to a halt. By Ralph Schwartz , YES!Magazine July 24, 2016 Truthout
News | Environment & Health How Utah Coal Interests Helped Push a Secret Plan to Export Coal From California Companies and investors are trying to survive a collapsing US coal market. By Sarah Tory , HighCountryNews July 24, 2016 Truthout
News | The Far Right Proposals in the 2016 Republican Party Platform What Trump, a GOP Congress and GOP-appointed Supreme Court would do to the US. By Steven Rosenfeld , AlterNet July 24, 2016 Truthout