News | Environment & Health Insurers Are Hiring Doctors With History of Malpractice to Decide on Coverage Doctors working for health insurers can rule on 10,000 or more requests for care a year. By Doris Burke , David Armstrong , Patrick Rucker , Propublica December 16, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Culture & Media “Free-Speech Absolutist” Musk Is Abetting Modi’s Suppression of Voices in India Blocking our organizations' X accounts in India is another sign of the Indian government’s attempts to stifle dissent. By Rasheed Ahmed & Sunita Viswanath , Truthout December 16, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health EPA Is Considering Approval of Pesticide Despite It Not Meeting Safety Standards Internal emails suggest that political pressure plays a role in eschewing public health concerns. By Johnathan Hettinger , TheNewLede December 16, 2023 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Police Tech Isn’t Designed to Be Accurate — It’s Made to Exert Social Control Policing technologies are inaccurate by design. By James Kilgore , Truthout December 16, 2023 Truthout
News | LGBTQ Rights LGBTQ Muslims Call for Permanent Ceasefire in Front of Stonewall “Queer Muslim New Yorkers are rising up in solidarity with Palestinians,” organizers said. By Zane McNeill , Truthout December 15, 2023 Truthout
News | Human Rights Expert: Biden Remark on Israel’s “Indiscriminate Bombing” Could Incriminate Him “Biden is in effect conceding that the Israeli military is committing war crimes,” the international law expert said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout December 15, 2023 Truthout
News | Human Rights Sanders Moves to Force Vote on Probe Into Israel Human Rights “Atrocities” Israel’s assault will “remembered among some of the darkest chapters of our modern history,” Sanders said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout December 15, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health EPA Lauded for Opening Review Process of Vinyl Chloride, a Known Carcinogen The chemical is linked to higher rates of lung and liver cancer, liver disease, neurological problems and miscarriage. By Brian Bienkowski , EnvironmentalHealthNews December 15, 2023 Truthout
News | LGBTQ Rights Wisconsin Legislators Propose Amendment to Repeal Anti-Marriage Equality Laws Democrats proposing the repeal are hopeful they can get Republicans to support it, too. By Chris Walker , Truthout December 15, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing When the FBI Is Asked to Go After the Right, It Inevitably Comes for the Left The FBI was never meant to address right-wing extremists. We can’t look to it to stop the right. By Alex S. Vitale , Truthout December 15, 2023 Truthout