Op-Ed | Environment & Health Our Governments Have Chosen Capitalism Over Preparing for Next COVID Surge In refusing to prioritize preparation for the next COVID surge, our leaders are sacrificing the most vulnerable. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout March 25, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights Disability Doesn’t Make Us Less Worthy of Life. COVID Policy Assumes It Does. As we hope for a world a little less dominated by COVID, we must recognize that risk will not be the same for everyone. By Elliot Kukla , Truthout March 23, 2022 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing COVID-Fueled Solitary Confinement Still Plagues Prisons and Jails Two years into the pandemic, prisons are still using torturous conditions over depopulating prisons to stop the spread. By Katie Rose Quandt & Allison Altshule , Truthout March 22, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Pneumonia Almost Killed Me. As COVID Restrictions Ease, I Fear for My Life. In 2017, I was hit with pneumonia, and my lungs remain damaged. When “normal” arrives, it won’t be for everyone. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout March 14, 2022 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Poll Finds Most Voters Think Companies Are Exploiting Pandemic to Raise Prices A whopping 80 percent of likely voters say that the government should crack down on corporate profiteering. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout February 28, 2022 Truthout
News | Education & Youth “Nobody’s Listening”: Teachers Raise Alarm Over COVID Testing Delays Added workload combined with short staffing is just one of the obstacles facing schools amid a persistent pandemic. By Kerry Cardoza , Truthout February 3, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Political Leaders Use “Personal Responsibility” to Justify Needless COVID Deaths For all his campaign promises, Biden has failed to set up a multilevel systemic public health response to COVID. By Rob Wallace , Truthout January 27, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth I’m a High-Risk Disabled Professor. Am I Teaching In Person? Governor DeSantis says I’m teaching in person. Where is the uprising of professors? Where is the change.org petition? By The Cyborg Jillian Weise , Truthout January 24, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing My Son Was Incarcerated at 13. Six Years Later, It’s Clear the State Failed Him. Amid a pandemic, the conditions at youth prisons have become all the more inhumane. By Lameka Smith , Truthout January 23, 2022 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Omicron Outbreaks in Prisons Put Everyone at Risk, But Data Is Scarce Prisons in multiple states restricted access to pandemic data in 2021. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout January 6, 2022 Truthout