News | Environment & Health Only Some States Are Warning Residents of “Forever Chemicals” in Freshwater Fish Eating a single serving of freshwater fish can be the equivalent of drinking water with high levels of PFAS for a month. By Hannah Norman , KFFHealthNews December 2, 2023 Truthout
News | LGBTQ Rights Small Grants Are Helping Southern Families Access Gender-Affirming Care Southern families with trans youth are turning to advocacy groups amid an increasingly hostile legal landscape. By Orion Rummler , The19th December 2, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Fossil Fuel Companies Back Toothless “Decarbonization Charter” at COP28 in Dubai 320 organizations denounced the plan as corporate greenwashing and called on the COP28 Presidency to abandon it. By Jon Queally , CommonDreams December 2, 2023 Truthout
News | Immigration Appeals Court Tells Texas to Remove Anti-Migrant Razor Buoys From Rio Grande The buoys are “only a fraction of Gov. Abbott's racist and murderous Operation Lone Star,” noted immigrant advocates. By Jessica Corbett , CommonDreams December 2, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections Far Right Win in Dutch Elections Shows How Quickly the Right Is Rising in Europe Geert Wilders’s election is an ominous harbinger. The hour has come for Europe to stymie the spread of the far right. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout December 2, 2023 Truthout
News Analysis | Culture & Media How Corporate Media Helped Lay the Groundwork for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Corporate media outlets have treated Palestinian suffering as a nonstory for many decades. By Andy Lee Roth & Mickey Huff , Truthout December 2, 2023 Truthout
News | War & Peace Report: Israeli Officials Knew of October 7 Attack a Year Ago, But Didn’t Act Israeli officials have exploited the attack to “justify” their genocide in Gaza. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout December 1, 2023 Truthout
News Analysis | Politics & Elections The Supreme Court May Be Poised to Kill the Voting Rights Act Once and for All A federal court said only the government, not civil rights groups or individuals, can enforce the Voting Rights Act. By Marjorie Cohn , Truthout December 1, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections DeSantis and Newsom’s Shouting Match Seems Unlikely to Shift Tide of GOP Primary Ron DeSantis needed to do something dramatic to shift the dynamics against him in the GOP primary. That didn’t happen. By Sasha Abramsky , Truthout December 1, 2023 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections House Speaker Penned Foreword for Conspiracy Theory-Laden Book Last Year Johnson described the book as “a valuable contribution” to political discourse. By Chris Walker , Truthout December 1, 2023 Truthout