News Analysis | The Alliance for Prosperity: Solution to the Central American Migrant Crisis or Déjà Vu? Analysts are questioning whether a new Washington plan will stop the suffering driving migration from Central America. By Jeff Abbott , Truthout February 13, 2016 Truthout
News | As the Movement for Black Lives Shifts to Policy, Several Options Emerge DeRay McKesson's entering Baltimore's mayoral race is as much a part of the movement for Black lives as those taking to the streets in Ferguson, Baltimore and elsewhere. By Kate Aronoff , WagingNonviolence February 13, 2016 Truthout
News | Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back For most of human history, life-saving drugs were a public good. Now they're only good for shareholders. By Fran Quigley , ForeignPolicyinFocus February 13, 2016 Truthout
News | Montana Tribe’s Water Deal Clears Major Senate Milestone Blackfeet have waited decades to resolve their water claims but Congress is in no hurry. By Elizabeth Shogren , HighCountryNews February 13, 2016 Truthout
News | Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program This neighborhood made gardens out of vacant lots to tackle gentrification and high youth unemployment. By Rebecca Nathanson , YES!Magazine February 13, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | Richard D. Wolff | On the Meaning of Capitalism, We Don’t Agree To understand capitalism today, consider framing the economic system in terms of workplace relationships. By Richard D. Wolff , Truthout February 13, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | How the United States’ Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy Politics, at its barest, is a market characterized by power-and the struggle for how power will be distributed. By Frank Castro , TheHamptonInstitute February 13, 2016 Truthout
Op-Ed | Washington Post’s Food Columnist Goes to Bat for Monsanto – Again Readers of the Washington Post deserve better. By Stacy Malkan , FAIR February 13, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | Politics & Elections The Oregon Standoff and the ALEC-Backed Push to Put States in Control of Public Land The Malheur refuge takeover masks a campaign to transfer federal land to Western states and open it to private developers. By Thomas Brom , Truthout February 12, 2016 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Chicago Cop’s Lawsuit Against Estate of Slain Teen Might Be a First The lawsuit presents an unusual argument that attempts to make citizens pay for the hazards of policing. By Adeshina Emmanuel , TheChicagoReporter February 12, 2016 Truthout